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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?
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.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
How AI Has Affected PR
When we consider how the use of AI affects legal PR and communications, we have to look at it as an industrywide global phenomenon. A recent online conference provided an overview of the latest AI trends in public relations, and specifically, the impact of AI on communications. Here are some of the key points and takeaways from several of the speakers, who provided current best practices, tips, concerns and case studies.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.