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Break Down the Silos and Lead Your Firm's Information Services From the Data
Law firms are metrics-driven organizations, and the need for accurate metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) will only continue to increase as law firms answer the client's demands to re-tool service delivery and organizational structure. This need for metrics-driven analysis now extends to the firms' research services, a heretofore last bastion of resistance to technology and measurement. This is simply no longer the case: whether in-house or outsourced, a firm's information services must be as competitively strategic as any other of its operations, which translates in other words to “demonstrable in its efficiency, cost-effectiveness and ability to produce value.” This means metrics and leading from the data.
A law firm's critical information processes depend on quick and accurate communication among the firms' software applications to provide consistent service, deliver business intelligence, and drive additional value to the legal work product ' all while holding down or reducing costs. To that end, the introduction of new content platforms has been a double-edged sword: New market entrants have improved content, service, and delivery choices, but their lack of expertise has been resulting in duplicative content, choice confusion, and/or mismanagement of the content itself.
At the same time, information about team utilization, workflow, productivity and efficiency have become of paramount value ' to the firm's managing partners and, ultimately, the client. The firms that have this visibility are able to price their services accurately and predictably to the client; they will build relationships and continue to win new business. It is not just that library services have been resistant to measuring team utilization, the technology simply has not been available to capture the costs of production, workflow of library staff and consumption habits of the firms' attorneys. This has restricted library directors' abilities to capture the metrics and make informed decisions on capacity, workflow and utilization that managing partners are now demanding and driving.
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.
Removing Restrictive Covenants In New York
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?
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.