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April 7, 2020

FREE and Powerful: Wolters Kluwer Launches Suite of COVID-19 Smart Charts Outside the Paywall. For the past month librarians and lawyers have been scrambling to locate and digest the daily cascade of COVID-19 orders, laws, regulations and policies that have been streaming from every level of government across the fifty states. The Wolters Kluwer COVID -19 resource has aggregated and tagged releases from across the federal government including the President and Congress as well as…

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Underestimated Risks: M&A and German Employee Inventions

By Dr. Sandra Mueller

April 7, 2020

American and Asian companies considering investments in Europe often focus on targets based in Germany, Europe’s largest national economy. Many buyers are not aware that due to the particularities of German employee invention law the patent portfolio of the target may contain considerable risks with regard to patent ownership. In the worst case, such “skeletons in the closet” may prevent the target company from using the patented technology. On March 15, 2019, my colleague Janice …

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Wolters Kluwer Releases Comprehensive Free Resource for Navigating Federal and State COVID-19 Laws

By Bob Ambrogi

April 7, 2020

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. today launched a comprehensive free resource for tracking state and federal laws, executive orders, and regulations related to the COVID-19 pandemic, built using WK’s Smart Chart technology that allows users to easily filter by parameters such as jurisdictions and topics to create custom summaries. WK says it is providing the COVID-19 Smart Chart free of charge, available on the open web without even requiring registration, in order to support…

Mike McBride Online

Linked: what’s reasonable for managers to expect of parents working from home?

By Mike McBride

April 7, 2020

Echoing my own thoughts from yesterday, this response to a question about being frustrated with an employee being slower to get work done because they have a toddler at home all day, is pure gold. “In the past, it was … Continued The post Linked: what’s reasonable for managers to expect of parents working from home? appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the…

Your IT Consultant

To Zoom or Not to Zoom – That is the Question

By John Simek

April 7, 2020

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Zoom is currently in the media crosshairs as problems are discovered with its security and privacy practices. Should you be using Zoom given all the criticism? The opinions range from Zoom is no different than any other software application to avoid Zoom at all costs. The Hacker News has a good summary of the recent Zoom issues that have been exposed. As you run through the list, you will notice that several items have already…

Sui Generis

Zoom Videoconferencing 101

By NBlack

April 7, 2020

Here is a recent Daily Record column. My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. ***** Zoom Videoconferencing 101 It’s been a few weeks since we collectively began to “shelter in place.” Working from home has become the newfound reality for many lawyers, and many of you are likely in the process of trying to determine how to work remotely both effectively and efficiently. As you put systems in place to facilitate practicing law…

LawSites

Join Me For A Live-Streaming Conversation with Ralph Baxter, Former Orrick Chair, on Litera TV

By Bob Ambrogi

April 7, 2020

As part of its response to the coronavirus crisis, the document automation company Litera has launched Litera TV, a daily live stream of interviews, educational programs, and tips around legal tech and legal practice. I am thrilled to announced that starting tomorrow, and for at least the next four weeks, I will host a half-hour episode on Litera TV, Law Insights, a weekly independent look at the legal industry in which I will be…

Technology Law Dispatch

U.S. cybersecurity – points to remember when business is not as usual

By Bart Huffman, Gerard Stegmaier, David Krone & Haylie Treas

April 7, 2020

As the U.S. economy and educational system adapt to work and life at home, it is important to remember that cybersecurity (and related privacy) risks remain and are evolving. Remembering to think through measures that are in place to protect personal information, proprietary information, confidential information, and information needed for ongoing operations can help businesses avoid and mitigate these risks. Appropriate protective measures are specific to changing circumstances, but fortunately, guidance and helpful resources have…

Legal Services Today

A Time to Lead

By Ralph Baxter

April 7, 2020

FDR Fireside Chat Broadcast #4 — Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a "fireside chat" with the American people during the Great Depression

A WORRIED AND FRIGHTENED TEAM NEEDS INSPIRATION FROM THE TOP The Coronavirus Crisis is unlike any other in our lifetimes. As I wrote last week, how law firm leaders perform their duties will make a big difference in how their firms, and all who depend on them, fare. What law firm leaders need to do can be short handed into three categories: Lead, Manage, and Learn. This week I will address the first of…

Future Lawyer

Lawyering In An Era Of Social Distancing

By rickgeorges

April 7, 2020

Lawyering In The Era Of Social Distancing. Do you ever feel like you are stranded in a tiny life raft in the ocean, and you don’t have a paddle? I understand. The current pandemic has left many lawyers feeling rudderless in a storm. Confusion reigns. Everyone is running around like the proverbial chicken. Well, relax. Technology is here to save you. Okay, not really. But, even if you haven’t been honing your remote lawyering…

Technology

FREE and Powerful: Wolters Kluwer Launches Suite of COVID-19 Smart Charts Outside the Paywall.

Underestimated Risks: M&A and German Employee Inventions

Wolters Kluwer Releases Comprehensive Free Resource for Navigating Federal and State COVID-19 Laws

Linked: what’s reasonable for managers to expect of parents working from home?

To Zoom or Not to Zoom – That is the Question

Zoom Videoconferencing 101

Join Me For A Live-Streaming Conversation with Ralph Baxter, Former Orrick Chair, on Litera TV

U.S. cybersecurity – points to remember when business is not as usual

A Time to Lead

Lawyering In An Era Of Social Distancing

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