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Upgrading Microsoft Office and What It Means to Your Service Desk
With the worldwide release of Office 2010 in June, Microsoft has once again unleashed a frenzy of new software purchases ' and even more Office upgrades ' globally.
While Microsoft is touting the versions of Office 2010 preinstalled on new PCs for consumers, business customers, including law firms, have to carefully weigh their options when contemplating an upgrade. In addition to the obvious end-user productivity, software, training, hardware, and IT resource costs associated with such an upgrade, law firms have to think twice about what such a “mission critical” upgrade might mean for their internal help desks and their ability to best serve the firms' users. While some firms for now have chosen to leave what works well enough alone, and there are discussions of other cloud-based alternatives such as Google Docs, many are making significant upgrades to the latest version of Office for strategic reasons, while still others see it as a necessary evil to keep their product supported. With that being the case, what can the legal help desk proactively initiate to plan for, anticipate and deal with potential support increases related to MS Office and other major software upgrades?
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
Blockchain Domains: New Developments for Brand Owners
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.