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The RED ZONE - Selecting Outside Counsel
May 10, 2007
RELATIONSHIPS AND RETENTION – The Red Zone strategy to build and maintain relationships with inside counsel needs to be informed by an in-depth analysis of a company's past selections – how they wre made, problems that might have occurred afterward, legal-trade press or other media coverage of the relationship or the cases and transactions involved.This research, on the one hand, will set the seller's expectations and, therefore positively affect its strategy. On the other hand, the research will reveal holes in prior or current relationships, which should suggest natural opportunities for the seller to differentiate itself. For example, providing a resource missing from other engagements will get your firm's foot firmly planted on the “closing” goal line, if only regarding a discrete project. However, remember that limited engagements are always a sound Red Zone objective. Small successes position you for big ones.
RELATIONSHIPS AND RETENTION – The Red Zone strategy to build and maintain relationships with inside counsel needs to be informed by an in-depth analysis of a company's past selections – how they wre made, problems that might have occurred afterward, legal-trade press or other media coverage of the relationship or the cases and transactions involved.This research, on the one hand, will set the seller's expectations and, therefore positively affect its strategy. On the other hand, the research will reveal holes in prior or current relationships, which should suggest natural opportunities for the seller to differentiate itself. For example, providing a resource missing from other engagements will get your firm's foot firmly planted on the “closing” goal line, if only regarding a discrete project. However, remember that limited engagements are always a sound Red Zone objective. Small successes position you for big ones.
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.
'Huguenot LLC v. Megalith Capital Group Fund I, L.P.': A Tutorial On Contract Liability for Real Estate Purchasers
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CoStar Wins Injunction for Breach-of-Contract Damages In CRE Database Access Lawsuit
Latham & Watkins helped the largest U.S. commercial real estate research company prevail in a breach-of-contract dispute in District of Columbia federal court.
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.