Strategic Outsourcing for Legal Services. Recently I came across this intriguing question: What are most effective methods of controlling “maverick legal spend” (off-panel/off-contract engagements)? I’m interested in hearing how legal departments use systems to engage outside counsel. I think the best approach is to ensure that the legal department has developed a service model for [...]
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You Should Try WhichDraft.com Here. Cloud Computing Fine for Attorney Client Privilege. The Alabama Bar’s Disciplinary Commission has recently ruled that cloud computing is fine for use by attorneys without raising confidentiality concerns as long as an attorney makes sure that the website storing client data maintains confidentiality and provides proper access to client information [...]
Read MoreYou Should Try WhichDraft.com Here. Hot Docs and Its Discontents. Hot Docs used to be the dominant application for document assembly. Back in the day, when you thought of a smooth Q&A interface for automatically drafting a contract, Hot Docs pretty much was the first thing that leaped to mind. Today, Hot Docs has been [...]
Read MoreYou Should Try WhichDraft.com Here. Comic Books Online – Piracy and Its Discontents: There’s a thought provoking article over at The Hill entitled “The ‘real’ victims of online piracy” by comic book artist Colleen Doran. She bemoans the current state of online content distribution, highly frustrated by the plethora of piracy websites that illegally copy [...]
Read MoreYou Should Try WhichDraft.com Here. Alright, you’re putting together a deal, you’re extremely excited, you’re going to sell your consulting services to a new client that’s going to pay you a mint, you’re going to buy a fantastic new computer server that will speed up your company network, you can’t wait, all you can think [...]
Read MoreYou Should Try WhichDraft.com Here. So far in our Contracts 101 series, we’ve covered how to understand contract preambles and parties (see here, and here). Today we’re going to take on a new concept that seems to flummox most people the first time they look at a contract: those every so scary definitions (cue spooky [...]
Read MoreYou Should Try WhichDraft.com Here. Believe it or not, one of the most confusing things to figure out in any contract is the parties: the persons actually agreeing to the deal. If you remember nothing else about this post, then focus on these two key questions that you need to ask to know who the [...]
Read MoreYou Should Try WhichDraft.com Here. Welcome to the first post in our new Contracts 101 series, designed to get you up to speed on the basics of contract drafting. Today’s post will explain the gobbledygook you see in the first paragraph of a contract, which we in the contract drafting game refer to as the [...]
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