Practice Tip: Using Rules To Organize Your Outlook Inbox
How often have you faced the challenge of locating an important e-mail message in an unorganized Inbox? Where's that meeting? What's that date? If you're like most of us, you give up easily because the volume of messages makes locating one a daunting, if not impossible task. <br>So, how can you organize the other messages and keep your Inbox orderly so that you can find important messages when you need them? You use Outlook to create rules or alerts to manage and organize your Inbox.
It's 2 a.m. ' Do You Know Where Your Web Site Is?
From highly complex e-commerce sites to small "mom and pop" companies, nearly everyone is using the Web to do business. But all of this technology can produce problems ranging from inaccessible and slow-loading Web sites to critical Web applications not functioning when they're needed most.
Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley: Conscientious Compliance
A confluence of various regulations and court decisions, beyond Sarbanes-Oxley, has made it de rigueur to adopt corporate codes of conduct or corporate compliance and ethic programs. But arguably, and not fully appreciated, the only thing that could be worse for directors and officers these days than not having adopted a corporate compliance program, is having adopted one and not effectively implementing it. Boards of directors and their advisors must now focus on not merely adopting programs, but on establishing procedures and processes that provide active oversight of directors of compliance programs.
Is The Government Losing Its Merger Home Field Advantage?
The conventional wisdom is that the government has a significant advantage when challenging mergers in court, and that this advantage is especially difficult to overcome when the government presents major customer witnesses opposing the transaction. However, three recent government court losses in which the FTC or Department of Justice teamed up with state attorney generals challenge that conventional wisdom.
Edgy Ethics In Law Firm Competition
Of the firms that are playing to win, I particularly respect those that have gone out of their way to define what constitutes unethical and culturally unacceptable behavior.
$10K Raises For Philadelphia Associates
Three more Philadelphia law firms have joined in the parade to raise starting salaries. Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin and Saul Ewing both moved their starting wage from $105,000 to $115,000, and Fox Rothschild is jacking its rate from $100,000 to $110,000.
Midsize Firms: Key Trends Affecting Competitiveness And Profitability
In conducting strategic planning studies and facilitating numerous strategic planning retreats, I regularly discuss long-term trends affecting law firms with dozens of members of executive committees and managing partners. These trends of interest differ somewhat, of course, for firms of different sizes. More importantly, sometimes the same trend has very different implications for firms of different sizes.
Cash-Out Distribution Plans Require Amendment
Qualified retirement plans that provide immediate cash-out distributions to a terminated participant if the vested benefit is "$5000 or less" must be amended to comply with Department of Labor (DOL) final regulations. The final regulations are effective for rollovers of mandatory distributions made on or after March 28, 2005. The final regulations provide a safe harbor for fiduciaries of tax-qualified pension plans that are required to roll over plan benefits into an individual retirement plan when a terminated employee fails to elect a distribution method.
