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How to Get the Most Out of Legal Blogs
While some lawyers blog simply to share their thoughts and knowledge, the majority also look at blogs as an opportunity to help with marketing their expertise and knowledge to a broader audience consisting of existing clients and also those who may be seeking assistance in the practice areas that are being covered by the blog. Therefore, the content of the blog is critically important to its success and its ongoing retention of readers.
Narrow the Focus To Increase the Audience
While a blog can cover everything concerning the law, the most successful blogs are focused on narrow practice segments or niche areas of the law. By focusing on these narrower topics, it is easier to keep the content of the blog updated and fresh. New postings are critical when it comes to search engine rankings ' blogs that are regularly updated with new posts consistently rank higher. Internet search engines look for content that is added on a regular basis and that is linked from other posts or blogs. The need to update frequently is often a deterrent to creating a blog or is used as an excuse for not having a blog, but many attorneys fail to realize that a blog post doesn't have to be the equivalent of a major article or paper. Posts can simply be a link to a post on another blog or news source with brief commentary from the lawyer that adds their opinion as to what this might mean to the target audience.
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?