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Covenants Not To Compete: For Everyone At The Firm Except Attorneys?
A covenant not to compete is an increasingly popular device employers use to bind employees not to work for, or as, a direct competitor. Such covenants are most often found in employment contracts, but they can also be a separate document, signed by the employee at hiring, during employment, or upon leaving. However, in many states, a covenant not to compete cannot stand alone as a binding agreement, but must be ancillary to an employment or other type of contract that provides some benefit to the employee. <br>While covenants not to compete may be used by employers in certain court-delineated circumstances, ethical rules specifically bar the application of such restrictive covenants to attorneys.
Around the Firms
Ex-partners Lose Bid To Speed Funds from Fish & Neave<br>Nixon Peabody Employees On Board at Piper <br>Pillsbury Strikes Oil
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New Frontiers for Baker Donelson's KM
So much has been written about knowledge management in the past 10 years and so many products purporting to enable knowledge management have been pushed on the legal community, that I am not sure that the term is relevant anymore. However, I have always thought some of the main tenets of KM make a lot of sense.<br>An exciting project that we are rolling out at Baker Donelson starting this month conforms to those main tenets of KM.
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Legal Acrobatics A Review of Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0
If you haven't already seen a couple reviews of Acrobat 7.0, you must not be reading much legal tech trade literature! I've caught at least half a dozen already. Adobe Systems has accompanied the release of their latest version with quite a media blitz, at least in the legal sector. And for good reason. The Acrobat product family encompasses a host of features highly useful for legal professionals.
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Product Review Using Ringtail CaseBook to Manage Complex Litigation
Bryan Cave LLP is an 800-lawyer firm with litigators in eight U.S. cities and London. In 2002, the firm asked me to evaluate our litigation technology and litigation support services. For better or worse, we had neither budget nor staff during the first 9 months. While we could not affect any immediate change, this was the ideal opportunity to do a needs assessment, survey the available technology, evaluate the trends in the market, and ultimately plan and budget for implementation.
Practice Tip: What You Need to Know About Fighting Spyware and Adware
While obvious security threats like fast-spreading worms have a tendency to garner news headlines, other stealthy security risks threaten law firms and other businesses every day. An increasing amount of spyware and adware programs have the ability to facilitate the disclosure of business information and risk privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and system availability. Law firms ' like other corporations ' usually accumulate a vault of information that could cause serious problems if it were shared with the wrong contacts or, even worse, stolen. Spyware's evolution from simple cookies to a range of sophisticated user-tracking systems has left many businesses without the control over their proprietary data and <br>A recent survey by IT industry analysts IDC identified spyware as the fourth greatest threat to enterprise security.
Counsel Concerns
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decided that a former associate in a law firm can continue to represent one-time Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King in a fee dispute between King and the associate's former firm.
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Decision of Note: <b>Grateful Dead Photos In Book Is Fair Use</b>
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decided that incorporating several thumbnail reproductions of concert posters into the book "Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip" without a copyright license from the plaintiff archive constituted a fair use.
Clause & Effect
Record Distribution/Promissory Estoppel <br>Record Production Deals/Breach of Contract
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Courthouse Steps
Recently filed cases in entertainment law, straight from the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
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