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Making the Right Choices for Implementation, Training and Support
Exploiting the full potential of the technology your firm has chosen to purchase is a challenge ' adoption and utilization are distinctly separate actions. You've done your due diligence in terms of adoption: evaluated different solutions and feature sets; tested or even piloted your favorites with IT and/or savvy users; and made the best choice possible. How can your firm ensure the best chance for utilization when, as the saying goes, “culture eats change for breakfast”?
Should you task your department leaders and IT teams with it all or work with a third-party vendor?
Projects of this nature inherently require a deep understanding of the technology on many different levels. Beyond the needed technical capabilities, there must be an understanding of the human element: what is possible, presenting it to staff and attorneys for exactly what it is, and demonstrating what is in it for them. Relying on a technologist who can get the technology implemented on the right devices isn't even half of the whole; it is up to the firm to handle the communication plan, training and utilization by the firm's staff and attorneys. With built-in resistance to change endemic at most firms, the neutral leadership of a third party provider can smooth certain change management issues: what is oft repeated in-house is oft “heard” when coming from an outside point-of-view.
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?