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Total Search: The Answer to Law Firm Productivity!
In this age of increased client demand for greater efficiency when it comes to legal services, coupled with the ever-facing challenge of firms dealing with competitive market pressures and ever-declining revenues, the legal professional faces the dilemma to give the client a higher return on his legal investment dollar!
But how can technology help to solve this ever-increasing problem? One way in finding a solution is about to come forth from a well-established 30-year-old firm – LexisNexis. The company has put forth an all-encompassing solution that should allow the legal market a chance to be an even brighter and shinier star to its clientele. The program is designed to provide added value to the legal researcher and share their firm-wide knowledge within and across hitherto disconnected boundaries!
The problem has always been that a firm within itself has several knowledge bases and proprietary documents and drafted pleadings upon which it depends. At the same time, while it worked within its own knowledge base, it then went from within to the vast amounts of information residing within LexisNexis at Lexis.com! If only a firm could do both at the same time, with total integration ' that seemed to be the annoying problem.
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?