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Too Big To Fail in the Dodd-Frank Era
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License to travel: how regulation is benefiting business abroad
Common Employment Law Mistakes for Small, Start-Up and Growing Companies
Ted Hester on Congressional Investigations
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Zimmermann: Up to 20% of AmLaw 200 "Badly Weakened"
Survey: Law Firms Must Change, But Don't Know How
Sullivan & Cromwell's M&A Hotline is Ringing
Andrea Weckerle on CiviliNation
Going on the Offense: Proactive Strategies to Reduce Uncertainty
Eliot Frick on Smart Social Media Strategy
Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One)
Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part Two)
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Suzanne Rich Folsom and Bart M. Schwartz on Corporate Compliance in 2011
Moving data to the cloud has been the critical data security challenge confronting organizations in the past few years. With the cloud transition well underway, the spotlight has turned to securing end-user devices like...more
Fenwick & West litigation partner Andrew Bridges emphasizes the importance for young companies to bring in legal counsel to identify litigation risks before they arise. According to Bridges, attorneys can then plan the...more
Apple’s recent victory over Samsung in their patent infringement case had to be one of the most closely watched intellectual property cases ever, and trial graphics played a decisive role in shaping juror and public opinion....more
Joint Venture Agreement Ideal for protecting partner firms, companies, or organizations while entering into a mutual business relationship. ...more
A comprehensive NDA to be used with most mutual business arangements that involve the sharing of intellectual property for the purpose of business, marketing, product, development, et. al....more
As we have indicated in numerous posts over the last year, foreign language document reviews have dominated the U.S. contract attorney market due to the continuing increase in FCPA cases. It has provided a stream of work from...more
Interesting Articles And News From Around the Web: 11/1-11/07/2010...more
Table of Contents 1. FATF and the 40+9 Recommendations ...85 2. Background of Gatekeeper Initiative .... 88 3. Risk-Based Approach and Development of Lawyer Guidance ... 91 4. Risk Categories ... 94 5. Development of...more
By Donald W. Hudspeth The following is an outline of a lecture I have given to the Edson Institute at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona as well as the Arizona Small Business Development Center and The...more
Arizona Personal Asset Protection Attorneys As a business owner, proactive personal asset protection may be essential to protecting your hard-earned assets against situations and events beyond your control. At The Law...more
Alternative Dispute Resolution and Arizona Businesses Increasingly, businesses are including alternative dispute resolution (ADR) clauses in standard business-to-business and consumer contracts, and even businesses without...more
International Business Law: Starting or Buying an Arizona Business Investing in Arizona... Arizona international business attorneys... Work with a skilled Arizona business attorney with an international bent At...more
S-Corporation or C-Corporation? Incorporating in Arizona S-corporations and C-corporations share many of the same advantages and disadvantages. Probably the single biggest drawback to both forms of corporation in Arizona...more
How to Form a LLC in Arizona For many self-employed Arizonans, forming an LLC is the best choice for their business. Likewise for many sole proprietorships, partnerships, and other small businesses. LLCs—limited liability...more
Buying or Selling a Business in Arizona I am a business attorney in Phoenix Arizona. Here are some tips for buying or selling a business in Arizona: BUYING A BUSINESS IN ARIZONA 1. Business Brokers, Pros and...more
Character and the trouble it can cause you and your owner-operated business: If you, as a small business, don’t add the “Structure” of Goals, Roles and Controls internally to support the volume weight of growth, then the...more
It goes without saying that most entrepreneurs would never consider buying an existing business without first conducting the proper due diligence on it and its present owners. The idea is to try to uncover those more latent...more
In early January 2010, the Weatherproof outerwear company blatantly challenged a request from the White House to dismantle a massive advertisement the company placed in Times Square, New York. The ad prominently featured the...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reviews each trademark application that is filed in the United States. The USPTO often issues what are known as “office actions” to applicants that describe the legal...more
Businesses work hard to develop the visual appearance of their products so that the product is easily recognizable and associated with the good will of the product and company. Visual appearance, like written words or...more
Trade secrets are confidential and specialized pieces of information that are unique to the business and important to its profitability. As such, the law provides special protections for trade secrets....more
A trademark that has acquired secondary meaning means that the trademark has become recognized as a brand for specific goods and services from a single source....more
There are 3 key elements that are all pre-requisites for achieving workflow success: People, Workflow Process, and the Technology. So, if you have found yourself in a situation where you don’t have defined processes,...more
Why do business people get frustrated with lawyers? Because lawyers often do not understand their business strategy and management issues. As a result, corporate and intellectual property lawyers are unable to integrated...more
The most important trend in the legal industry is connecting a client's value of a matter to the fees charged by law firms. Corporate counsel have become the market makers and change agents and are requiring firms to become...more
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