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Nixon & Vanderhye Transforms IP Data Workflow with First To File
February 01, 2012
As our practice and the number of files we handled both grew, we continually needed to manage and expand our file room space. However, since the file room space could not be used productively to accommodate fee billers, maintaining a large file room amounted to a negative ongoing overhead cost for the firm.
Leadership: Differentiation Amid Upheaval
January 31, 2012
Rather than struggle with how to cope in times of turmoil, all one needs to do is study what has worked in other market segments. The business lessons are clear and available for those who are looking.
Effective Practice Group Leaders
January 31, 2012
It is a business imperative for firms to improve the performance of their group leaders. This article sets forth three ways to achieve more effective practice group leadership in your firm.
Leadership and the 21st-Century Law Firm
January 31, 2012
As changes in the industry and profession continue to emerge it seems that leadership of 21st-century law firms may be increasingly less about doing more and more about doing things differently.
Payroll Tax Cut Extended for Two Months
January 31, 2012
Important update you need to know.
Train Your Associates and Watch Them Flourish ' and Business Grow
January 31, 2012
In this post-recession era, it has never been more important for lawyers to be educated and adequately equipped for new business development.
Career Journal: Emerging Success for Marketing Technologists
January 31, 2012
The technology segments of marketing departments have become an increasingly significant area of investment across industry lines. Within legal marketing, the focus of many firms this year will be on upgrading their capabilities in this rapidly-changing area.
Minding Your Business
January 30, 2012
To remain competitive, it is important for law firms to peel away the financial layers of their businesses, identify potential problems, forecast future revenues, and manage their financial health.
New Regulations Will Enhance Disclosure for Your Pension Plans
December 28, 2011
It's time for pension plan sponsors to get serious about their fiduciary obligations. Simply put, the employer's obligation for a plan doesn't end when it writes the check. It begins.
FCPA Investigation Costs ' Are You Covered?
December 28, 2011
The enormous size of the FCPA enforcement actions settlements as well as the outsized cost of investigating and defending FCPA actions has led the insurance industry to offer new FCPA insurance products, which are intended to offset the FCPA investigation and settlement costs. These products, however, should be reviewed carefully by the companies to determine their utility in light of the companies' FCPA exposure, existing insurance, and, of course, cost.

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  • Private Equity Valuation: A Significant Decision
    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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  • Meet the Lawyer Working on Inclusion Rider Language
    At the Oscars in March, Best Actress winner Frances McDormand made “inclusion rider” go viral. But Kalpana Kotagal, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers &amp; Toll had already worked for months to write the language for such provisions. Kotagal was developing legal language for contract provisions that Hollywood's elite could use to require studios and other partners to employ diverse workers on set.
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