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Look, But Don't Log In
Unlike an employer's internal e-mail system, which is generally understood to be under the ownership and control of the employer, personal Web-based accounts accessed at work raise new and unsettled questions about an employee's expectations of privacy.
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Information Management: Formalizing the Fire Drill
Today's information-rich organizations must be prepared to quickly find and produce ESI that may be relevant to a given litigation matter or request for information. The trouble is, many organizations do not have a well-thought out response plan in place, which makes the timely production of relevant information difficult, time-consuming and potentially very costly.
CONSULTANTS MUST DELIVER GREATER BOTTOM LINE RESULTS
The survey results strongly suggest that, to prove their value, business development consultants must now play a more instrumental role in generating significant new revenue. Among the key findings, 36% of respondents say that the work of business development consultants they've retained has real bottom line impact, while 57% say the work has been helpful but not decisive - or that it was initially helpful but less so as the engagement continued. The message is clear…
Managing a Smart Employee: Who's Boss Around Here, Anyway?
Among the many categories of management styles, there are two that are rarely seen without a measure of astigmatism. Both are extensions of the personality of the manager.
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Cash Management: Know What You Need, Get It, and Put It to Work
The cash-flow statement is the single most important tool for the success of any business. Most lawyers, and even many large law firms, begin to realize that they are in trouble only after the money ceases to come in the door. However, cash flow cessation is usually the last symptom of a downward spiral that started long before.
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Virgin Advantage from a New, Near-Shore Corporate Frontier
With bona fides now suitably established, is it possible to actively leverage the USVI's fiber and bandwidth assets to deliver greater competitive and stakeholder advantage to the enterprise? Yes it is; an economic development program chartered in law by the USVI government, sanctioned under U.S. Treasury regulations and managed by the University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park ("RTPark"), may be of particular interest to e-commerce and other knowledge-based businesses.
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Best Practices in Client Relationship Skills
There are key activities that lawyers can engage in to promote the health of existing client interactions. All of these activities can be categorized into one of three stages: 1) establishing the relationship; 2) building the relationship; and 3) proliferating the relationship.
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Client Speak: Is the Burden of AFA Here to Stay?
The recent dramatic downturn has created something relatively unknown to law firms: the "insistent buyers' market" (or "ibm"), wherein all the pent-up frustrations of the past have suddenly found a voice and now have to be confronted and no longer ignored.
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Media & Communications Corner: Don't Send That Release (over the Wire)
Law firms and other businesses devote a huge amount time, effort and money to creating and promoting "news" via press releases. But are they worth the time and money?
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