Resources

60 Resources for

Lawyer

Subscribe to this listing via:
RSS
Email

BNET Resources

Avoid A Bad Lawyer: 7 Tips: An attorney who is difficult to work with or provides shoddy legal advice can magnify an already touchy relationship. To illustrate: What would you do if a partnership went sour and the lawyer that once represented both of you goes on to represent your former partner? However, in this case,...; Tags: Business structures, Microsoft Corp., lawyer, partnership; White papers
Hiring A Lawyer? 5 Questions To Ask: Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and neither is ignorance of lawyers. If you hire an attorney to help you with a business or personal matter, and end up having a bad experience, you really have no one to blame but yourself. But, you ask, how can someone with...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Corp., lawyer, hiring; White papers
Poll: Enron CEO's "Honest Services" Defense: Today's poll deals with whether the concept of "honest services" can cover dishonorable acts. Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former Enron chief executive who is serving a 24-year prison sentence after he was convicted on 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors,...; Tags: William Baker, honest service, Enron Corp., Jeffrey K. Skilling, conviction; Blog posts 2008-04-03
John Suh: Customer-Friendly Law: John Suh is CEO of LegalZoom.com and has extensive experience starting companies in the Internet space. His dedication to making the legal process customer-friendly has made his company the most successful online legal resource by a huge margin. Suh speaks on how he makes the 80 services offered...; Tags: Internet; Videos 2008-03-08
A Billion-dollar Email 'Whoops!': The day was probably same as any other day for a Philadelphia lawyer who was working on a settlement case between big pharmaceutical player Eli Lilly and the U.S. Government. Eli Lilly was in talks with the federal government over marketing improprieties related to their bipolar drug, Zyprexa. The...; Tags: Free trade, Jonathan Haeber, e-mail; Blog posts 2008-02-07

Turn Off Auto-Complete on Your Email: Or at least make sure you pay close attention to who you're emailing before you hit send. That message, which has always been pretty close to Business Hacks' heart, was nailed home today when it appears that the New York Times scoop about a one billion dollar Eli Lilly settlement...; Tags: David Goldenberg, e-mail; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Care and Feeding of Contract Lawyers: Most sales pros hate lawyers... especially when they insert themselves into negotiations after there's been a verbal agreement. You have two choices: either let your local shysters throw wrenches into the wheels of your commerce, or learn to deal more effectively with the breed. Here are...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Geoffrey James, Sales Pro, sales; Blog posts 2008-01-30
Does Anyone Like Lawyers?: A quick Google search of the term 'lawyer jokes' will return over 2 million hits, which just confirms something everyone already suspected -- lawyers are not among the most popular of professionals (though, to be fair, doctor and priest jokes are just as numerous). Still, the prevailing wisdom is that...; Tags: Litigation, Recruitment & Selection, Jessica Stillman, legal officer; Blog posts 2007-09-26
Ethical Issues In Contract Drafting/Negotiation: In a transactional practice, procedural choices can substantively affect the ultimate deal. In particular, a poor procedural choice can lead to the loss of future procedural privileges in ways that disadvantage the client; and in extreme cases, a lawyer's poor procedural choice can tank the deal altogether. Despite this, many...; Tags: Santa Clara University, lawyer; White papers 2007-08-01
Bankruptcy Lawyer: Your Final Solution When Running Out of Options: A good bankruptcy lawyer should be someone whom one can be comfortable talking with. This is very important as communication must be based on trust. There have been so many instances when the client holds back on information that he thinks is not so significant only to learn later on...; Tags: Litigation, EzineArticles.com, bankruptcy, lawyer, knowledge; White papers 2006-03-04
Hot Topics on Insurance and Risk Management: A review of the case law on real property insurance and risk management issues over the last five years reveals familiar themes relevant to the ways transactional lawyer's document deals to allocate the risks and protect their clients. Of course the cases tend to reflect the deals where the lawyers...; Tags: Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial services, SECURITY, risk management, property insurance, lawyer, insurance; White papers 2005-01-31
Say What?: Formal legal contracts are often filled with boilerplate-endless paragraphs with indecipherable legalese that protects one side or the other against different risks. Lawyers often say, "The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away." Because boilerplate can have startling effects on your deal, it pays to have your lawyer...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., lawyer; White papers 2004-12-01
National Federation of Municipal Analysts White Paper on Disclosure for Swaps: This white paper catalyzes industry discussion as to what improved disclosure practices should entail. In order to develop our Recommended Best Practices in Disclosure, diverse groups of NFMA analysts worked with non-analyst professionals in each sector to develop "best practices" guidelines for certain market sectors. The same process was followed...; Tags: analyst, best practice, job, industry; White papers 2004-02-01
Good Policies Can Prevent Sexual Discrimination Or Harassment Litigation: Most companies that have ventured in the global arena have been entrusted with the responsibility of looking into the problems of the employees on a serious note. Now, it is not just enough to merely listen to the pleas of the employees and react instantly but it is also important...; Tags: American Lawyer Media Inc., harassment, litigation; White papers 2004-01-01
Different Voices, Different Venues: Environmental Racism Claims by Activists, Researchers, and Lawyers: Environmental Justice Movement activists have mobilized on the basis of grievances involving the disproportionate exposure of working class and minority subgroups to various environmental risks. Academics have frequently offered empirical documentation of such exposure. Public interest lawyers have sought legal remediation for injustice claims. But substantial structural changes to ameliorate...; Tags: activist, lawyer, voice, researcher, risk; White papers 2003-12-11
Sarbanes-Oxley Act Less Applicable To Not-For-Profits: A for-profit corporation’s primary aim is to maximize shareholder value, while law prohibits a not-for-profit from being operated for pecuniary or financial gain. In addition, the composition of for-profit and not-for-profit boards differs in several ways. Imposing the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, either through statute or by voluntary means, may not...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Financial accounting, American Lawyer Media Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, shareholder, board, financial; White papers 2003-09-29
Sarbanes-Oxley, The ABA Model Rules, And State "Whistleblowing" Duties: The Untold Story: Section 307 of Sarbanes-Oxley directs the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to issue regulations requiring lawyers "appearing and practicing" before the SEC who possess any "evidence" of a "material" securities law violation, breach of fiduciary duty, or "similar violation" to: (1) report the evidence to the company's chief legal or...; Tags: Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Financial accounting, SEC, wrongdoing, lawyer, regulation, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, board, financial; White papers 2003-09-02
Three Issues In Law Department Talent Management: From the executive summary: ‘A key element to a successful law department is management of in-house legal talent. The term, talent management, pertains to all the methods available to general counsel for training, mentoring, coaching, motivating, and directing in-house lawyers. The paper describes the top three issues law departments have...; Tags: Workforce management, American Lawyer Media Inc., talent management, talent, general counsel, technique, training; White papers 2003-07-01
Whistleblower Protection Under The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: From the executive summary: ‘The Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s general goal of enhancing corporate accountability and transparency is by now familiar to most corporate attorneys, as is the Act’s accompanying enhancement of penalties. Under-reported, however, has been the statute’s protection of corporate “whistleblowers”-those who report irregularities or misconduct to higher authority.’ The...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, American Lawyer Media Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, accountability; White papers 2003-06-26
Avoiding Extinction In A Turbulent Market: Financial Hygiene Perils: From the executive summary: ‘While strong law firms have experienced an exceptional level of prosperity and growth in a consolidating market, continued expansion and ever increasing profitability are not the only potential destinies for law firms today. As the high profile, closures of long established firms demonstrate in recent years...; Tags: Litigation, Professional development, American Lawyer Media Inc., law firm, career, financial; White papers 2003-06-04