How Do Business Development Efforts In High-Performing Law Firms Differ?
May 01, 2021
As firms and their clients continue to navigate ongoing business challenges in 2021, BD and marketing professionals first need to understand how mature their efforts are in specific areas. Then, they can look at what the successful firms are doing differently, so they can position themselves to join those ranks.
Supreme Court Leaves As Many Questions As It Answers In 'Google v. Oracle'
May 01, 2021
The Court cleared Google of copyright infringement in terminating a 16-year long dispute as to whether Google's Android mobile platform had infringed Oracle's Java programming language's copyright. However, the Court did not answer the question of whether specific components of computer software qualifies for copyright protection at all.
Scared of Your Clients' Involvement With Cryptocurrency?
May 01, 2021
Given the rapid expansion of interest and participation in cryptocurrency transactions, it's not a matter of whether you have an interest in crypto, think it's all a bizarre techno-bubble, the eventual replacement for fiat currency, or somewhere in between. The fact of the matter is your clients, and future clients, are more likely than ever to have a connection to this market, and a brief review of the headlines can make this prospect seem terrifying.
Real Property Law
May 01, 2021
Easement By Necessity Claim Fails for Inadequate Proof of Unity of Title At Severance
No Specific Performance When Purchaser Failed to Elect Contract Remedies
Subdivision of Dominant Parcel Did Not Terminate Easement
Judgment Creditor Not Entitled to Compel Sale of Tenancy By the Entirety Property
Questions of Fact Preclude Summary Judgment on Specific Performance Claim
Town Had No Authority to Issue Parking Permits on Land of Waterfront Owners
Law Firms Need to Look At Partnership Behaviors to Manage Profitability
May 01, 2021
In the decade ahead, the mechanism for offsetting the effects of external market forces on profitability will shift from changing partnership composition to transforming a partnership's behavioral norms, centering on how partners behave toward each other and help each other become the best possible version of their professional selves.
Can You Hear Me Now? — Privacy of Discussions
May 01, 2021
This article looks at privacy discussions, focusing on what in the circumstances discussed renders the IT data private and whether the criteria relied upon when courts and others in the discussion determine that the data is or is not private is truly determinative, as well as properly understood.
5 Critical Steps Down the Business Development Road
May 01, 2021
There is no question that a successful career in professional services requires an ability to generate new business. While acquiring the skills necessary to develop business is certainly a life-long journey, here are five critical elements to consider from the outset.
