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Sorry Airlines! Let's Take Legal Meetings Online
I can see it now: U.S. airlines continue to struggle because some of their most frequent fliers — attorneys — are turning in their wings. No longer do we need to fly nearly as often to client meetings or to interview key witnesses on our most pressing cases. Why? We now have e-meetings, specifically e-meetings from Tempe, AZ-based VIACK Corporation. Sad for the airlines; good for us!
The VIA3 E-meeting Service, originally modeled after the needs and wants of legal professionals, permits users to work together in real-time over the Internet using live audio and video capabilities, instant messaging and text chat, and the ability to jointly create, review, share and edit Microsoft Word and PowerPoint presentations. Even better, it's all built with our security requirements in mind, so attorney-client privilege is constantly maintained – unlike with e-mail or faxing. It's an awesome feature! How's that for knowing their market? Impressive. But more on security later….
We all know the pains of planning and holding off-site meetings, especially those that include clients, lawyers, paralegals, and others from across the city, the country or even the world. Coordinating a time and location can cost a bundle, especially when combined with the travel costs associated with getting and staying there, and the wasted time that could have been spent billing! Ultimately, it's the client that pays, you say, so why worry? We're all learning more and more each day why. Times have changed. Many clients just don't have the big budgets anymore. If we want to keep our clients and get some new ones, paying close attention to their budgets is one good way to do it! They don't have time to be out of their offices for days meeting with legal counsel or collaborating on complicated documents (that process can take weeks writing, faxing or e-mailing back and forth, coordinating edits, resending, and on and on). And they don't want to be paying for you to be traveling around either, if it's not absolutely necessary, when you could be back at your office using their money more efficiently.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?