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From Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Associate General Counsel and national counsel for trademark enforcement at Lorillard Tobacco Company.

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Do Noncompete Agreements Really Work?

Posted on November 21, 2008
Sometimes managers wonder whether legal mumbo jumbo really makes a difference. After all, isn’t all boilerplate language the same? It’s just a contract. People sign it and do what they want anyway. Right? I understand that some people may feel that way...

Leadership Actions and Corporate Cultures

Posted on November 17, 2008
Actions speak louder than words. Yet how many business leaders try to change corporate culture with policy pronouncements and mission statements while conducting business as usual? I was reminded of that old adage today when I read Office Culture Can Determine Firm?s Success...

Layoffs and Confidentiality

Posted on November 13, 2008
It used to be called downsizing or rightsizing, but in today’s economy it’s also been called streamlining, employee simplification, re-engineering, and cost improvement. If business necessities are requiring reductions in your workforce you’ll want to carefully examine and document the criteria you used in establishing the short list...

SCORE a double dose of Legal Literacy in November

Posted on November 07, 2008
This month, in addition to reading about Legal Literacy at this website you will be able to read even more at http://www.score.org. SCORE describes itself as “Counselors to America’s Small Business.” It is a nonprofit association dedicated to ”educating entrepreneurs and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide...

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Stereotypes + Decision Making = Discrimination?

Posted on November 04, 2008
Today is Election Day in the United States. Those participating in democracy by casting their vote for president will be making history today. We will either have the oldest president to take the oath of office or the first African-American president...

Quote of the Day: Trick or Treat and the Presumption of Guilt

Posted on October 30, 2008
“The question was put to respondents: Is the company guilty or innocent? More than two-thirds presumed the company was guilty, even with no facts.” (emphasis added) Steptoe and Johnson partner Jim Moorhead, co-chair of the crisis management practice, discussing the results of a study done by Daimler about how the public would react to a corporate [...

Major League Lessons for Little League Baseball Teams?

Posted on October 25, 2008
“Read this and let me know if they can really do it,” my assistant said as she handed me the front page of the local paper. The headline: “MLB says kids teams can’t adopt nicknames.” We’re in the middle of the World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays and the headline makes [...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Legal Literacy featured in Business Week?s ?Smart Answers? Podcast

Posted on October 22, 2008
I had the pleasure of recently speaking with Karen E. Klein, Business Week’s Smart Answers columnist. We talked about how small businesses and entrepreneurs can protect themselves against lawsuits and the three things they can do now before it’s too late...

Secret Trademark Violations

Posted on October 18, 2008
Centuries ago, when unscrupulous competitors tried to pass off their wares for the real deal merchant guilds began to affix “marks” to their goods to avoid confusion among customers and to prevent fraud. These “trademarks,” as they became known, let customers easily identify names they could trust and the origin of the goods they wanted to buy...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Legal Literacy featured by Small Business Professor

Posted on October 15, 2008
I had a delightful interview with Bruce Freeman, aka The Small Business Professor, who writes a syndicated column for the Scripps Howard News Service and is the accomplished co-author of Birthing the Elephant (Ten Speed Press), and president of ProLine Communications...

International Conflict Resolution Day ? Oct. 13th

Posted on October 13, 2008
Today is International Conflict Resolution Day and in honor of this important topic, today’s Blawg Review #181 is being hosted by Mediation Channel.com. No one likes to think or talk about conflict. It’s a lot like a pre-nup agreement being delivered to a wedding rehearsal dinner...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Bookshelf Recommendations

Posted on October 09, 2008
It’s frustrating when you’re trying to invest in your company’s success and improve your organization’s legal health and all you find is books that don’t have enough real world context to help you put their advice to good use...

The Congressional Jerry Springer Show

Posted on October 07, 2008
Richard S. Fuld Jr., the chief executive of Lehman Brothers Holding that owns the financially charred remains of a once formidable investment bank, didn’t look very happy answering angry questions from Henry A. Waxman’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform yesterday or when dodging the protesters waiting for him outside who hurled insults and held [...

Risk Management Central

Posted on October 04, 2008
The troubles on Wall Street have created a renewed and heightened interest in business governance, risk and compliance (GRC) issues. The Open Compliance and Ethics Group is a leader in this area and a great resource for those interested in strengthening their own corporate cultures...

Here Come the Suits

Posted on September 26, 2008
A week after Wall Street was forced to change its “evil ways” the first law suit was filed by broker-dealer Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. against mutual fund manager Reserve Fund for allegedly alerting institutional investors that Reserve Fund was holding close to $800 million of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc...

The Difference Between Law and Ethics

Posted on September 23, 2008
This morning I heard my husband complain about his English muffins. “When they pop up in the toaster I need something to pull them out with,” he moaned. “Could they make them any smaller?” What a coincidence. Today, I read a great article by Patricia J...

Breach of Trust

Posted on September 21, 2008
It’s hard to digest the Wall Street headlines of the past week: Lehman filed for bankruptcy, AIG got a huge loan and Uncle Same as a business partner, Merrill Lynch got a new home, and other bank merger talks were in high gear. It’s the latest after shock of the collapsed U...

Wall Street Pearls

Posted on September 15, 2008
By now you’ve probably heard the news that two venerable Wall Street firms hit the skids this past weekend. Merrill Lynch has a new Daddy in Bank of America and Lehman is the kid no one picked for their team. They’ve now filed for bankruptcy...

BLAWG REVIEW #176

Posted on September 08, 2008
Today, September 8th, is International Literacy Day. We typically think of the 3 Rs (reading, writing and ‘rithmetic) as a minimum requirement for literacy yet millions of people throughout the world are still denied this basic education. To address the problem the United Nations issued a General Assembly resolution ushering in the United Nations Literacy Decade and reaffirming every individual’s [...

Three Ways to Avoid Lawsuits

Posted on September 05, 2008
To help bridge the gap between business and law, I’m pleased to announce that the US Chamber of Commerce has included an article titled Three Ways to Avoid Lawsuits in the September 2008 edition of US Chamber Magazine.com. Click here to see the full article...

Spoiled and Smokin?

Posted on August 29, 2008
A recent Cnet article and the comments posted to it illustrate a mistaken belief some people hold with respect to their role in preserving electronic evidence in lawsuits. The comments also highlight misunderstanding about some key differences between civil and criminal cases...

Quote of the Day: A Contractual Life

Posted on August 26, 2008
The contracts are here not to guide my steps through the world, but to warn me against straying.Verlyn Klinkenborg writing about the multitude of contracts we encounter on a daily basis. Actually, contracts do both. They create rights as well as duties...

Tarnished gold or how grandma got run over by bureaucracy

Posted on August 21, 2008
The Olympic Games in Beijing have showered us with heart stopping as well as heart breaking performances, new world records, and moments of intense national pride. But the shadows of the Birds Nest hide a dark truth about China’s developing rule of law that holds a valuable lesson for corporate governance and compliance...

What happens when your supplier changes suppliers?

Posted on August 13, 2008
Whole Foods was recently caught up in a ground beef recall after illnesses were linked to the beef originating from a slaughterhouse in Omaha and distributed by Coleman Natural Beef ? a Whole Foods supplier.Although Whole Foods along with four other regional grocery chains were participated in the recall, it was a bigger black eye [...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Battle of the Forms

Posted on August 10, 2008
I’m pleased to announce that the current issue of American Executive includes an article I wrote about standard form contracts and how often they are anything but. To read about the Battle of the Forms, click here. In case you missed my previous American Executive articles, you can read the Slippery Slope and how the right incentives are critical [...

Quote of the Day: Government Rescue of Freddie Mac

Posted on August 06, 2008
It basically worked exactly as everyone expected — when things got bad, the government came to the rescue; but, we didn’t expect it would come at the cost of a new regulator who now has the power to burrow into our business forever. Former high-ranking Freddie Mac executive as quoted in NY Times on August 5, [...

The Last Lecture, the Yellow Brick Road, and the Wizard of Oz

Posted on July 31, 2008
Last week the world mourned the loss of Last Lecture professor, Randy Pausch. His final lecture at Carnegie Mellon University was intended as a collection of life?s lessons for his children ? a beautiful gift of love. But as the inspiring lecture spawned a best selling book and touched the lives of millions of people [...

Why Did the Marketer Cross the Bridge?

Posted on July 20, 2008
“Marketers can’t focus on those things” I was recently told at a conference when I raised a question about a potential legal pitfall in a marketing plan. “If I did,” said another, “I’d never get anything done...

Quote of the Day: Hard Work

Posted on July 18, 2008
“Clearly it’s taken us time and a lot of hard work from Martha and everybody else to right that ship.” Charles Koppelman, chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and former music executive on why MSLO’s business performance needs to be looked at from the perspective of what the company was on the verge of becoming before [...

Who?s Knockin? At Your Door?

Posted on June 11, 2008
No one likes being sued. It means that you, or your company, are under attack. You feel threatened and the adrenalin starts pumping. Even scarier is having a grand jury subpoena land on your desk. Today, however, in an excellent article appearing in Texas Lawyer, Greg Saikin and Sara Tubbs, provide some guidance on what [...

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