Computer Security: The No. One Priority For Law Firms!
September 02, 2004
Just as the old real estate axiom: "Location, Location, Location" keeps the buyers on their toes, so goes it in the legal profession with: "Security, Security, Security" keeping the firms tightly geared to making their computers as secure as possible in these heightened threat days.
Building Enterprise Search From The Ground Up
September 02, 2004
Technology leaders at law firms are under increasing pressure to provide information ubiquity ' not an easy task given the challenge of actually connecting heterogeneous data structures and file types across multiple information sources to the people who need them.
You Won't Drink To This
September 02, 2004
Buying wine over the Internet is legal, but selling wine on the Net has its problems and, as a result, there are few resounding cheers in the United States regarding e-sales of wine. <br>Here's how cork flecks get in the vintage: state authorities ' saying that they're protecting consumers ' exploit state regulations to thwart Internet sales of various goods and services, and wine is no exception.
Cybersecurity Legal Strategies
September 02, 2004
For good reason, cybersecurity has become a vital risk-management concern, and legal-based strategies, procedures and controls are essential parts of today's all-encompassing cybersecurity risk-management programs. <br>It seems a given. <br>Unfortunately, although many companies have written preparedness and cyberattack-defense plans, many have overlooked crafting the shielding armor of a well constructed legal layer. <br>And that's a big mistake waiting to happen ' again and again.
Cybervillains and How to Find Them: Obtaining the Identity of Anonymous Internet Users
September 02, 2004
Many corporate executives and in-house attorneys have complained about acts done "anonymously" over the Internet and the lack of accountability for Internet users. Each has seemingly been harmed by various online conduct, such as defamation, trade libel, trade secret leakage and other acts that occur because of Internet use and abuse. Many Internet users do not realize that an experienced lawyer can actually find their identity, location, and the situs of the damaging action(s).
Expanding Law Firm Operations Globally
September 02, 2004
The June edition introduced numerous accounting-related issues that firms confront when they use foreign currencies. This new article raises additional accounting-related challenges of international compensation and taxation, while also highlighting the broader planning issues associated with a law firm's decision to expand its operations globally.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: A Potent New Weapon in the Aftermarket Wars
September 02, 2004
For more than a century, original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") have sought, with only limited success, the aid of the courts to enforce restrictions against competitors' sales of products designed to complement or replace components of their proprietary technologies. At stake in each of these cases was a lucrative aftermarket for products directed to the OEM's patented technology and a "razor-and-blades" business model by which the OEM strove to attain a large installed user base for its equipment in hopes of "locking-in" customers to that aftermarket.
Case Briefing
September 01, 2004
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.