Corporate & Securities Law

Characteristics of Great Companies

Posted on September 27, 2009
Great companies:1) are constantly innovating and delighting their customers/users with new products and services.2) are built to last and be independent and sustainable. Great companies don't sell out.3) make lots of money but leave even more money on the table for their users and partners...

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

Posted on August 26, 2009
This article from American Express OPEN Forum waxes rhapsodic with pithy quotes and comments from top business bloggers, like Seth Godin. Somehow, I was included as well. Enjoy.

New Family Leave Policy - Have Family? Please Leave

Posted on August 06, 2009
"Our health insurer, after receiving our most recent check for premiums, has asked us to expand our Family Leave program. If you have a family, please leave."from a phony layoff memo, the latest by "Jeremy Blachman, the founder of the Anonymous Lawyer blog, author of a (very funny) novel of the same name, and a past contributor to the [WSJ] Law Blog (here, here), [who] gives his humorous take today on the past 18 months or so in the world of BigLaw...

Leadership Lessons for Hard Times

Posted on August 04, 2009
"During the current global recession, much attention has been devoted to the mistakes that sparked the financial and economic crisis, in hopes of not repeating them. Less has been given to what?s been done well amid the turmoil?to learn, for example, how best to lead a company through these tough times...

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Mind-Mapping Tools for College Students & Others

Posted on July 30, 2009
As a hardworking student, you have a lot to organize, including essays, exams, deadlines, and class schedules, not to mention your social and personal life ? plus any part-time jobs you may have taken on. For help, see this list of mind-mapping tools that are designed to help you see your ideas more clearly, analyze and outline research papers, become more efficient when you study, and get inspired to be more creative in your work...

The New Rules for Rock Stars

Posted on July 27, 2009
"Here are the new rules to make it in the [music] business:"The future is DIY. Learn how to use affordable tools, but remember... software won't solve all of your problems... create awareness... don't underestimate the power of giving away your music for free...

Series AA Equity Financing Documents

Posted on July 24, 2009
"Y Combinator and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are happy to announce the Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Their goal is to make angel funding rounds for startups easier for both sides."These documents were originally created for YC-funded startups to use when raising angel rounds...

Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship for College Students

Posted on July 20, 2009
"Becoming an entrepreneur can be one of the most rewarding decisions of your life. Understanding how to separate yourself from the rest of the rat race and put yourself in control of your own life is incredibly empowering. By choosing this path, you are giving yourself the ability to control your own destiny rather than simply choosing to work for someone else...

Bocce : Everything You Always Wanted to Know

Posted on July 13, 2009
My friend and classmate, Matt Flournoy and wife Joanne host the Annual Marietta Kiwanis Club Bocce Party at their home in Marietta, Georgia. Here are their rules and related instructional videos for all you bocce enthusiasts or curiousts out there. Bocce Rules and Definitions/ Non Uniform Local Rules of Flournoy Bocce , and Bocce Instructional Videos by Joanne Flournoy (Joanne R...

What I Wish I Knew When I Was Twenty

Posted on July 08, 2009
Stanford Technology Ventures Program's Executive Director Tina Seelig shares rich insights in creative thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset. Her talk, based on her 2009 book, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, cites numerous classroom successes of applied problem-solving and the lessons of failure...

Sample Board Meeting Minutes

Posted on July 02, 2009
This Brad Feld post provides a good template for a sample set of board meeting minutes following the wise lawyer's advice to keep it light, stating:"I go to a lot of board meetings. As a result, I?ve reviewed a lot of board meeting minutes. In general, the philosophy among most VC-backed companies ? promulgated by the law firms for these companies ? is to keep the board minutes ?light...

Trade-marks guide updated | eLegal Canton

Posted on June 30, 2009
David Canton has updated and split into 2 his trade-marks guide. trade-marks-guide-part-1-registering-a-trade-mark summarizes what one should know before selecting and registering a trade-mark, and the advantages of registering. trade-marks-guide-part-2-after-registration summarizes how to properly use and care for a trade-mark after it is registered...

Findlaw's Small Business Center

Posted on June 29, 2009
FindLaw's Small Business Center provides information and resources for small business owners, and help for entrepreneurs seeking to get a business idea off the ground. Here you can get information on choosing and forming the right legal structure for your business, legal tips on day-to-day business operations, an overview of employment law issues, and much more.

100 Awesome Blogs for Your Business Education

Posted on June 29, 2009
I am happy to report that my blog was included in this list of 100 Awesome Blogs for Your Business Education. Thanks to Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends for the link.

Twitter Guide Book

Posted on June 27, 2009
"Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends. But where's the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you find advanced tools for using Twitter on your phone or your desktop? To answer all these questions and more...

Pursue M&A Stages in Parallel

Posted on June 27, 2009
"Many companies diminish their effectiveness by managing M&A as a linear process. They treat each stage of a deal as if they were handing off the baton in a relay race, switching from the boardroom team, to the negotiating team, to the integration planning program leaders, to line management...

More on Risk Management

Posted on June 26, 2009
"First, remember that risk ? the probability of an outcome significantly different from the expected ? can produce both surprisingly good as well as surprisingly bad results. Be as ready to seize the wondrously good as you are to shield yourself and others from the horrendously bad...

Risk Management in a Nutshell

Posted on June 24, 2009
"'Risk Management' is the art and science of thinking about what could go wrong, and what should be done to mitigate those risks in a cost-effective manner."In order to identify risks and figure out how best to mitigate them, we first need a framework for classifying risks...

Widow of Murdered Fly Sues

Posted on June 22, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The widow of the housefly murdered by Barack Obama during a recent CNBC television interview announced this morning that she would be filing a wrongful death suit against the President in federal district court. The plaintiff brief -- citing pain, suffering and loss of income -- seeks a formal apology and compensatory damages, including an unspecified quantity of shit...

Zombies are People Too

Posted on June 17, 2009
I borrowed from the local library and have been watching this Course on Understanding the Brain taught by Jeanette Norden. Doctor Norden is a wonderful lecturer and makes a fascinating and complex subject easier to understand. Stephanie West Allen suggests perhaps a more fun and very novel way to learn about your brain:What a sense of humor! Dr...

New Yorkers now at liberty to shoot wild fowl in their own state

Posted on June 16, 2009
.New Yorkers now at liberty The Library of CongressThis delightful headline is courtesy of the October 10, 1909 edition of the New York Tribune recently posted to Flickr by the Library of Congress. The image is part of the Chronicling America project...

Iconic Depression Era Photographs Released

Posted on May 22, 2009
"Migrant Mother"The Library of CongressThe Library of Congress has created a remarkable set, FSA/OWI Favorites, which includes the ?Migrant Mother,? by Dorothea Lange, the original film negative of which is housed at the Library of Congress. The Library preserves Lange?s original, and makes the digitized photo freely available...

Don Lansberry de la Pittsburgha

Posted on April 03, 2009
"In the early 1970s Bob Lansberry began protesting on the streets of Pittsburgh, wearing signs accusing specific government officials of withholding or censoring his mail and subliminally controlling his mind. His signs and fliers proclaiming messages such as WHY CAN'T LANSBERRY GET MAIL? and ARE YOU MIND CONTROLLED? became icons of downtown Pittsburgh life...

Soften Your Heart at the Tenement Museum

Posted on March 26, 2009
No need to close your eyes and imagine what it might have been like for immigrants in turn-of-the-20th-century America to struggle mightily for a piece of the promise of the American dream. Visit the Tenement Museum and see it and feel it for yourself, as I did on Tuesday...

Change Management Toolbook

Posted on March 05, 2009

50 Common Interview Questions

Posted on February 25, 2009
Bhuvana Sundaramoorthy shares a great list of typical questions you are likely to be asked in your next job interview together with suggestions on how to answer them. This is an excellent list also for those conducting such interviews. Notably absent from the list is the cliche question "What is your greatest weakness?" although it is noted in the comments that interviewers who ask this question do not know what they are doing.

Leadership in a Nutshell

Posted on February 25, 2009
Gill Corkindale shares this summary of what it takes to be a good leader:1. Be aware. Understand yourself and your context. Know your own strengths, limitations, and development needs. If you don't have time to build your skills, bring people into your team who will complement you...

25 Random Things About Me

Posted on February 13, 2009
1. I?ve been a pauper, a poet, a paper boy, car wash attendant, commercial bakery worker, cemetery grass cutter, book warehouseman, hod carrier, construction laborer, television delivery man, jet refueler, lavatory cleaner, ditch digger, law clerk, attorney, actor and professor2...

Weasels & Other Super Bowl Ad Critters

Posted on February 11, 2009
In this essay, Jeffrey Schrank gives a list of the techniques advertisers employ to make claims for their products. I have reprinted selections from the article and used Super Bowl ads that I believe illustrate the concepts Professor Schrank stresses:"The 'claim' is the verbal or print part of an ad that makes some claim of superiority for the product being advertised...

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

Posted on February 10, 2009
"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.'?Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.??In waking a tiger, use a long stick.?"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous...

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