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Is Your Firm Ready for an IRS Audit?
March 26, 2010
The IRS has selected your firm for audit. Are you ready? You may be in for a surprise if you ever accept retainers, accept payment for services in kind, accept client trust funds, advance client costs in connection with matters you are handling, or have any service providers not on the regular payroll.
Want to Save Your Property?
March 26, 2010
Many business owners who are faced with a matured bank loan or multiple debts that are long past due immediately think that bankruptcy is the only way out. This could not be further from the truth.
Understanding GAAP
March 26, 2010
So many contracts contain the phrase "in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles," but do lawyers really understand what this phrase means or how it may affect a client in any given contract?
Career Journal: Marketing's Greater Impact During the Great Recession
February 25, 2010
In 2009, the investments that so many had encouraged their respective firms to make actually started to pay some dividends.
Change As a Management and Marketing Tool
February 25, 2010
In this economic environment, the word "change" looms large in professional services dialogue. Professions can be fairly rigid and resistant to innovation. But the times seem to have accelerated the need for new ideas and structures to cope with new economic and social problems and opportunities.
Three's a Crowd?
February 24, 2010
Is there room in the legal market for a third high-end legal research service? That is the question as Bloomberg, a company known for its financial news, attempts to muscle in on the turf now occupied by Westlaw and LexisNexis. In December, it officially launched Bloomberg Law.
Taxpayer Suffers SILO (Pre-tax) Loss in Wells Fargo
February 24, 2010
In <i>Wells Fargo &amp; Company v. United States</i>, a court considered for the first time SILOs involving domestic municipal transit agency lessees. While one would have thought that the domestic and federally approved nature of the transactions would have some influence on the decision, they did not.
Movers & Shakers
February 24, 2010
Who's doing what; who's going where.
Managing the Compensable Workday in a New Electronic World
February 24, 2010
What is work? When does the workday begin and end? These seemingly easy questions are not so easy anymore. Here's why.
Practical Responses to Client Demands for a Fee Cut
February 24, 2010
Law firms have a variety of strategies that can address a client's need for ostensibly lower fees without putting the firm at a financial disadvantage.

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    With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
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