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WHY NOT COLLABORATE?
April 08, 2009
WHY NOT COLLABORATE? An often successful but often overlooked attorney marketing strategy to increase visibility and bring in new clients is to collaborate with other businesses. Small businesses and consultants do this almost as a necessity when pitching clients who require services beyond the scope of their own capabilities. For example, if your firm holds a specialty in employment law, why not try teaming up with human resources organizations and/or professionals for certain projects, such'
<B>BREAKING NEWS:</b> Second Circuit: Google Must Face Trademark Suit Involving Keyword Ads
April 06, 2009
In a long-awaited opinion, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Google must face a trademark infringement lawsuit for selling keywords that trigger ads.
<B>BREAKING NEWS:</b> Supreme Court Strengthens Arbitration in Labor Case Ruling
April 02, 2009
The Supreme Court's growing embrace of the virtues of arbitration continued on April 1 with a 5-4 ruling endorsing labor contracts that send age discrimination claims to arbitration rather than to federal courts.
Supreme Court: Age Discrimination Claims Must Go to Arbitration
April 01, 2009
The Supreme Court on April 1 ruled 5-4 that courts must enforce clearly stated provisions in labor contracts that require age-discrimination claims to go to arbitration.
Warn Potential Patent Infringers: But Do Your Homework First
March 31, 2009
In order to better understand the required level of care that must be taken before issuing notice letters to potential patent infringers, and the legal standard under which that care may be later judged in court, we address two recent Federal Circuit cases on this topic.
The Little License That Could: Dangers of Using Open-Source Code After Jacobsen v. Katzer
March 31, 2009
Although the open-source movement has been active for more than a decade, it is only in recent months that such a copyright license actually has received the imprimatur of enforceability ' from an unlikely court (the Federal Circuit) construing a perhaps unlikely license (the Java Model Railroad Interface for model train software).
In the Marketplace
March 31, 2009
Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.
CIT Survey Examines the Middle Market's Outlook on the Economy
March 31, 2009
In the opinion of four out of five middle-market executives, the financial crisis will bottom out in 2009. This is according to a research report, "U.S. Middle Market Outlook 2009: Navigating the Credit Crunch," the first in a series of four in-depth studies on the middle market sponsored by CIT Group and produced by Forbes Insights, the research practice of Forbes Media.
First Modifications Since 2001 Considered for UCC Article 9
March 31, 2009
Part One of this article addressed items on the Article 9 Joint Review Committee's agenda, including naming issues and transmitting utilities. This second installment discusses forms of initial financing statements and amendments, correction statements, control of deposit accounts, intangibles, and the <i>Commercial Money Center</i> and <i>Highland Capital</i> cases.
How CDOs, CMOs, LILOs and SILOs All Turned into Alphabet Soup
March 31, 2009
This article provides a very condensed version of both the current financial global crisis and the problems that exist in the LILO/SILO transactions and then draws some unseen parallels shared by each of them. In addition, some conclusions are drawn as to what may be learned from these events.

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