NEW Serving Entrepreneurial Clients in High-Tech, Fast-Growth Companies September 14th, 2010MMM Tech Law Video Channel General Counsel/In-House Attorneys Practical Pointer: It is sometimes necessary to look beyond the legal issues when serving entrepreneurial clients in high-tech, fast-growth companies. Read article. Read More
Interview with John Yates on Business Development — Keys to Winning Business September 1st, 2010FinTech/Payments General Counsel/In-House Attorneys John Yates provides his insights on winning business and the importance of customer contact. Read the interview here. NEW: The video podcast is now available here. Read More
Easy To Do, Frequently Missed: Limiting Your Liability for Online Content August 30th, 2010MMM Tech Law Video Channel General Counsel/In-House Attorneys, Privacy/Security, Risk Management It is a fact of life that companies frequently write their own terms of use and privacy policies rather than using an attorney. Time and money are always short, and these things would seem easy to do. After all, plenty of websites have examples that other lawyers have pored over. Why not just adapt that work? Here’s one thing you may miss. Many website terms of use have a reference to what happens when your site ends up displaying someone else’s copyrighted work. The terms of use have a section that gives a name, address and contact information where notices of Read More
“Slow Growth”: Embracing Project Management August 5th, 2010MMM Tech Law Video Channel General Counsel/In-House Attorneys, Legal Project Management An increasing number of law firms are discovering that the development of a project management system can improve productivity, but some remain hesitant to take the plunge. This Law Technology News article offers tips for encouraging your firm to embrace project management. Read More
Building Efficiency, Controlling Costs through “Legal Project Management” August 4th, 2010MMM Tech Perspectives General Counsel/In-House Attorneys, Legal Project Management From Duke Law Magazine comes this article offering practical pointers for legal practices. Yates explains how bringing project management to the realm of legal practice can increase productivity, cut costs and save valuable time. Read More
Georgia Appellate Court Finds Hawks-Thrashers Sale Verbal Agreement Binding July 30th, 2010MMM Tech Law Video Channel Appellate Court, Breach of Contract, Contracts, General Counsel/In-House Attorneys, Hawks, Thrashers, Turner Broadcasting The Georgia Court of Appeals upheld a decision to hold Turner Broadcasting System to its apparent verbal agreement to transfer ownership of the Hawks and Thrashers franchises, ordering the payment of the original $281-million award. Facts: During the course of negotiations with Texas business man David McDavid, Turner entered into a Letter of Intent that precluded binding negotiations without a signed agreement. However, that contract had expired by the time Turner representatives purportedly said “we have a deal” in continued verbal negotiations. McDavid had prepared a press release to announce the purchase when Turner retracted the offer, prompting McDavid to sue Read More