Practice Tip: Managing Your Outlook Calendar
We live such busy and hectic lives. Not only do we have to juggle our own schedule, but we are also often juggling the schedules of others. Proper use of a good calendar program can make all the difference in the world between making appointments on time and showing up late, or even worse, missing them altogether. Microsoft Outlook provides the tools needed to help manage and organize your schedule. So let's look at some of the ways Outlook can bring order to our hectic lives.
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Viruses, Adware and Spyware Attack Legal Framework
Back in the good old days, electronic evidence for civil cases could be gathered from a custodian's computer, processed to TIFF, Bates numbered and introduced into evidence. Concerns over chain of custody and authenticity were talked about, but rarely argued in the courtroom. <br>It's not so simple anymore. Viruses, spyware, adware and hijacking are attacking our legal framework for electronic evidence and impacting specific areas of law, such as privacy, attorney client privilege, trade secret, criminal law and products liability.
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Practically Applying Business Intelligence
With more than 38,000 open matters at any given time, summarizing and analyzing practice, client and attorney information was nearly impossible to do efficiently using manual process and flat reporting. We decided it was time to implement reporting-based business intelligence (BI) software. <br>Over a 1-year period, we reviewed software and services from four vendors, including our accounting system vendor and third party providers. We selected Redwood Analytics because they are business and finance professionals that specialize in developing data warehouses and analytic cubes (note: defined below) specific to law firm performance.
Integration Clauses and the Proposed FTC Rule Revision
The Staff Report on proposed changes to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Franchise Trade Regulation Rule (the "Rule") contains proposed amendments regarding the use of integration clauses in franchise agreements. The amendments are found in the additional prohibitions section, at Part 436.9 of the Rule, although other provisions of the Rule also are applicable including Part 436.1(f).
Franchisees' Perspective: Leveling the Playing Field
In 1992 when a group a franchisee leaders sat down with me in Washington, DC to discuss the formation of a national trade association to represent their interests — which became the American Franchisee Association (AFA) — the group intended nothing less than to put pressure on the current public policy framework to make things better for franchisees. Included in this framework was the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) trade regulation rule titled, "Disclosure Requirements and Prohibitions Concerning Franchising and Business Opportunity Ventures" (16 CFR Part 436) ("Franchise Rule" or "Rule"). Since that meeting in 1992, the AFA has been the catalyst for ensuring that certain franchisors do not use their enormous contractual discretion with the intent to subjugate or take advantage of their franchisees.
Franchisors' Perspective: Many Attractive Proposals
Franchisors should find compellingly attractive the changes to the federal disclosure paradigm that will transpire if the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Franchise Rule is revised as suggested in the Commission's Staff Report of Aug. 25, 2004.
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Parent Disclosure: Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Me?
If there's one group that may be unhappy about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Staff Report's proposed revisions to the FTC Franchise Rule, it's got to be the parents of franchisors (or maybe franchisors who have parents). The FTC really zapped it to parents, increasing the franchisor's disclosure burden with respect to its parent.
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Franchisee Associations See Item 20 Disclosure Plan as One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) long-awaited Staff Report recommends the retention of an important advancement for the benefit of prospective franchisees: the mandated disclosure of trademark-specific franchisee associations in Item 20. Many franchisee advocates viewed this provision in the October 1999 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) as a laudable recognition of the legitimate and constructive role that franchisee associations can and do play in our industry, including as an unfiltered source of information for prospective franchisees.
Countdown Begins for the Revised FTC Franchise Rule and UFOC
On Aug. 25, 2004, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its long-anticipated report on its proposed changes to the FTC Rule on Franchising and Business Opportunity Ventures (FTC Rule). When the new FTC Rule comes into effect, franchisors will have to make significant changes to their existing disclosure documents and follow new rules for how and when they are delivered to prospective franchisees. There are also new exemptions for large transactions and large franchisees, and the FTC Rule will not apply to international franchise locations.
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Internal Rate Of Return: A Simple, Non-Mathematical Explanation
How do venture investors compare investments in portfolio companies when the amounts invested, the timing of those investments, the returns, and the timing…
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