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Flat Fee IP
The Frontlines of IP Litigation
Flat Fee IP, published by Greenfield Draa & Harrington, focuses on legal issues related to intellectual property, particularly trade secret misappropriation. The blog discusses topics such as the measurement and duration of damages for trade secret theft, including the application of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act and related case law. It addresses complex questions about when damages should begin and end, the concept of unfair commercial advantage or "head start," and the interplay between trade secret protection and monetary relief. The blog also explores litigation strategies, jury trial rights on unjust enrichment damages, and practical considerations in high-stakes IP disputes.
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Should Lawyers Use Dropbox?
By Dave Bohrer
Last week a prospective litigation client suggested we use Dropbox to share confidential and proprietary information relating to a technology startup. This gave me access to the information that I needed to price the matter, the information was far too voluminous…
Getting Interviewed by Client: Be Less Annoying
By Dave Bohrer
Matt Homen (“Six Minutes on Client Service Design“) suggests breaking down the client service experience to identify and deliver value on what “drives the client freakin’ crazy” about the experience. For example, waiting in an airport check-in…
Tax and Accounting Practice Lags Behind New Normal Model
By Dave Bohrer
Not unlike many of my colleagues, I’m spending what is turning out to be an amazingly beautiful Spring weekend in the Bay Area preparing tax returns due next week – most specifically those of my law business, Confluence Law Partners.…
Big Data and Legal Knowledge Engineers
By Dave Bohrer
The NY Times’ declaration that we have entered the Age of Big Data suggests we are ever closer to realizing author Richard Susskind’s (“End of Lawyers?”) predictions for lawyers.
What is Big Data? According to the NY Times…
Low Cost Response to New Internet Naming Options
By Dave Bohrer
Internet naming is going to get a lot more interesting now that generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs – the word to the right of the dot, as in “.com,” “.org,” or “.net”) are expanding from the 22 options currently available…
What Makes Associate Successful in a Flat Fee Firm?
By Dave Bohrer
HInt: it’s not how many hours they bill; in fact, we’ve studiously avoided setting a target number of billable hours. Another Hint: it’s not following the sage advice (for associate survival in BigLaw) given to me by one of my…
Hourly “Safety Valves” for Flat Fee Litigation
By Dave Bohrer
A safety valve in a flat fee litigation agreement that puts off for a later date the negotiation of fees for late phase activities such as trial should probably include at least a default hourly fee pending the re-bargaining of…
Quora: How to Cut (Hourly)Fees
By Dave Bohrer
Quora, the hot new Q&A site, has people asking whether it is “the biggest blogging innovation in 10 years?” the “Next Red-Hot Web Start-Up” or could be “Bigger than Twitter” (“[i]t’s smart. Really Smart”).
We couldn’t resist…
Should Lawyers Use Google AdWords?
By Dave Bohrer
There’s no question that prospective clients of non-hourly priced legal services can’t find the “new normal” firms offering these services unless the firms are doing some shouting online, see our Nov. 30 post. It’s equally as clear that the…