And on the 46th Day, Who Wins?
September 29, 2008
This article provides a review of the basic principles of federal tax liens and secured transactions under Article 9 of the UCC ("Article 9") and discusses certain issues that arise with respect to the priority of federal tax liens against certain interest holders under the "45-day rule" of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code").
What Your Terms and Conditions Tell Your Customers
September 29, 2008
What businessperson hasn't complained about how lawyers ruin deals? The simple handshake and bar-napkin agreement too often turns into hundreds of pages of fine print, with hourly billing to match. Yet neither party really knows whether it all actually states the deal as each understood it over handshakes. Sometimes the fallout begins because the contracts are unintelligible to the layman ' not good. Other times, the lawyer may have taken far longer than the deal allowed to write a contract, or simply blew the budget ' also not good. Whatever the cause, these problems lead many businesspeople to wonder whether their lawyers are for them, or against them.
<i>Product Review</i> Acrobat 9.0 Looks Quite the Same, But Feels Very Different
September 29, 2008
Who can dispute that the Portable Document Format has become the lingua franca of legal documents today? PDF is the standard for electronic filing, scanned documents, digital signatures, form distribution, and much more. Adobe has now released version 9 of its flagship application, and while there isn't much that is brand new, there are some noteworthy improvements for the legal community.
Profits Per Me (PPM)
September 29, 2008
Lateral partner candidates need to look beyond PPP and focus on what the authors call PPM ' "profits per me." Averages are great, but how much of the law firm's profits can one fairly expect to get?
To Catch an e-Criminal
September 29, 2008
Someone is stealing electronic data from you ' right now. A person your firm or company has trusted for years is doing things that are making you suspect he or she is stealing. You don't know how or with whom, but you know something is wrong. What do you do? Where do you turn? How do you find out for sure?
What's So Great About SharePoint?
September 29, 2008
The popularity of SharePoint is undeniable. As the legal competitive landscape intensifies, more and more firms are looking to SharePoint to improve client service and collaboration. SharePoint allows law firms to store and locate critical information in convenient, flexible, sites, bringing it together in a meaningful way and enabling attorneys to become educated on industry trends and client concerns via the use of wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and the like. Below is an outline of the key benefits of SharePoint to law firms of all sizes, and how firms can take advantage of these features.
Lotus Platform Presents Unique Challenges In e-Discovery
September 29, 2008
Lotus Notes is most commonly known as an e-mail and calendaring application often compared with Microsoft Exchange. However, Lotus Notes can be much more than just e-mail. The collection of Lotus-based data requires a carefully considered approach that can present interesting e-discovery challenges.
