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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

For the legal industry, IT policies are not only a component of operational maturity, but also a matter of ethics. Law firms handle sensitive and confidential information on a daily basis, such as client data, case details, financial records, and intellectual property.

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

STEEPLED: Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, Ethical, and Demographic. Property rights, including protection of intellectual property (trade marks, copyright, patents, registered designs, trade secrets, software and circuit layouts). Prohibitions, taboos, and ethical issues.

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The Tightrope Google Has to Walk in China

Harvard Business

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The recent news that Google is considering a re-entry into China further highlights a troubling balancing act faced by technology companies looking to do business there. Intellectual property theft. With over 1.3

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? Most boards would benefit from richer data sets that compare their company to others. Company strategy – and what makes the organization distinctive – has to come first.

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business

The CFO-GC alliance has always been important because the finance function and the legal function are truly the nervous system of the corporation—sending critical signals to all parts of the company about the accuracy of the financials and compliance with law. Compliance.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business

Yet the company’s mounting scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report from former U.S. Some people attribute the company’s missteps to the personal failings of founder-CEO Travis Kalanick. Attorney General Eric Holder. Uber’s Fundamental Illegality. Rotten to the Core.

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Five Inducted As Charter Members To Million Dollar Consultant™ Hall of Fame

Chad Barr

Manifesting the highest levels of integrity, ethics, and accountability. Contributing intellectual capital to the consulting profession. Dan Coughlin, The Coughlin Company, Fenton, MO (636/825-6611). Five outstanding consultants from diverse disciplines have been inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant Hall of Fame.