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The Place to Network: Innovative Networking Strategies for Women Attorneys
The glass ceiling ' the 'old boy' network ' work/life balance challenges: Women certainly know how it feels to have to fight for their share of legal business, and sometimes to fight for the very existence of their legal careers. If pressed, undoubtedly any woman attorney could come up with a litany of reasons why she cannot be a rainmaker or proactive networker, ranging from responsibilities at home to discrimination or being underestimated in terms of capabilities by bosses or clients, both male and female.
How many women have walked into a boardroom only to be sent to fetch coffee, even if they are lead outside counsel? In addition, women's legal careers are often interrupted by family obligations or motherhood, making their career path more of a zigzag than a straight line. Fortunately, there are a growing number of female attorneys who have become talented rainmakers despite these looming pressures, proving that raking in the business is indeed possible for women, even while juggling a myriad of professional and personal responsibilities.
In general, women seem reluctant to promote themselves and tout their own accomplishments. This perhaps results from cultural conditioning they received as girls ' 'don't brag,' 'speak when spoken to,' 'sit quietly with hands folded and ankles crossed.' We all know that modesty is certainly not the best policy when it comes to business development, so women know they need to blast through their acquired politeness to unapologetically advance themselves.
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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?