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November 19, 2009 | Legaltech News

Nuance PaperPort 12

Nuance PaperPort has evolved from the simple document scanning application into a suite of technologies that provide a feature-rich, desktop-based electronic document management environment. Consultant John K. Waters takes a look at some head-turning enhancements in version 12 for the law office.
8 minute read
April 06, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

Using Corporate Crisis Management to Solve Any Problem

In Jim Moorhead's book The Instant Survivor: Right Ways to Respond When Things Go Wrong, the crisis management expert shows how to use business strategies to solve personal and professional problems.
5 minute read
December 18, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Did Ann Baskins See No Evil at HP?

Hewlett-Packard's unfolding spying scandal has garnered a lot of coverage, but little has been written about former GC Ann Baskins' role. Some insight can be found through in-depth analysis of 1,500 pages of documents released by the investigating House committee, combined with interviews of those close to the issues. It appears that the spying probe morphed into a runaway train, and Baskins was in the best position to recognize the danger and stop it. But she didn't. Did she just not see the crash coming?
21 minute read
July 09, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

When the CEO Wants His Hotmail

Not only do most of us not have a secretary tidying up our e-mail inbox each evening, but we also have many alternative inboxes for our business correspondence. Indeed, multiple accounts often are created by employees to bypass the hassles of security measures and record-retention policies diligently created by IT departments who often diligently enforce these polices and whose employees read and apply the information in publications like this one.
15 minute read
November 01, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

The Importance of Being Lazy

Tom Lutz discovers the value of slacking off in Doing Nothing.
5 minute read
March 01, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

Keeping It Clean

Intel has found a way to develop green initiatives that can also be kind to the bottom line.
9 minute read
August 18, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

One of the Architects of the Wall Street Reform Act Speaks With Corporate Counsel

With the government breathing down their necks with new regulations, GCs are stressing about executive pay. Who better to turn to than one of the architects of the colossal new Wall Street Reform Act?
5 minute read
December 14, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Ponzi Schemes 101: Don't Be the Next Victim

Yes, it's true, there are some David Letterman-style Top Ten lists that are more fun than this one on avoiding Ponzi and pyramid schemes. But that doesn't mean that corporate counsel really, really shouldn't read this one ...
9 minute read
January 02, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Former HBOC General Counsel's Good and Bad News: Partial Acquittal, Retrial Likely

Jay Lapine, one of the first GCs to be indicted in the recent wave of corporate scandal, has now become one of the few to be at least partially acquitted. In November a San Francisco jury cleared Lapine of conspiracy to commit securities fraud while he was GC of HBO & Co., a medical software maker. But jurors deadlocked on six other charges, and Lapine's defense counsel says prosecutors have decided to retry Lapine. Of the six deadlocked counts, jurors voted 11 to 1 to convict Lapine on three.
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February 20, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Supreme Court Rules State Courts Can Hear Patent Malpractice Cases

State courts may hear claims alleging legal malpractice in the handling of a patent case, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. The justices handed victory to a trio of attorneys who had challenged a Texas Supreme Court decision holding that the patent malpractice lawsuit against them belonged in federal, not state court, where they had prevailed.
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