Counsel to Counsel E-Magazine

For more than five years, Counsel to Counsel has been offering best practices, horizon issues and practical approaches to the challenges facing in-house counsel and their trusted legal advisers. We are excited to announce, beginning with the March 2009 issue, Counsel to Counsel will be issued bimonthly and accessible exclusively in a new electronic format on martindale.com® and Martindale-Hubbell® Connected.

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Bright Ideas
The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was a watershed in many respects. It showed the world that Chicago had rebounded from the great fire two decades earlier to become one of the world's great cities. It showcased the Beaux-Arts architecture and influential urban planning of Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmstead. And it demonstrated the wonder and potential of a revolutionary new technology: electricity.
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Best Practices: Using Metrics: Systematically Improving Outside Counsel Performance
Situation: Patents are among a corporation’s most valuable assets. Yet, evaluating patent disclosures and filing applications is expensive and timeconsuming. The process requires substantial time and effort from employees, including those who created the invention, as well as their peers and other internal parties.
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Best Practices: Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy Filings
Situation: Due to the economy, even relatively strong companies are having difficulty accessing the capital markets to refinance debt and/or fund ongoing operations. Unfortunately, senior management often view Chapter 11 or CCAA reorganization (under Canada's Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act) as an option of last resort and wait too long to begin the restructuring process. That, in part, is leading to an increase in Chapter 11/CCAA filings.
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Crimes of Opportunity: Protect Your Trademarks From Online Fraudsters
It's just too darn easy. A cut here, a paste there, a few lines of code and fraudsters are using your valuable trademark online. They may be trying to legitimize their scams, trading on your good name, or even misdirecting the customers who are looking for your Web site to your closest competitors.
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Read the complete May 2009 issue of Counsel to Counsel e-magazine. May 2009 issue highlights Telling a Story in a Challenging Environment Last fall, financial markets around the globe were collapsing, investors were panicking and well-known investment banks were going bankrupt or throwing themselves at acquirers. Lawmakers and regulators in Washington were scrambling to get their arms around solutions that would restore investor confidence and stabilize the global economy. Read more... Bright Ideas The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was a watershed in many respects. It showed the world that Chicago had rebounded from the great fire two decades earlier to become one of the world's great cities. It showcased the Beaux-Arts architecture and influential urban planning of Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmstead. And it demonstrated the wonder and potential of a revolutionary new technology: electricity. Read more...
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profiles in partnership Bright Ideas Underwriters Laboratories Inc. and Winston & Strawn LLP best practices Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy Filings Ogilvy Renault LLP best practices Using Metrics: Systematically Improving Outside Counsel Performance Sara Lee Cafés do Brasil best practices Executing the Pre-Litigation Duty to Preserve Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC global perspectives Global Insolvency: Like Politics, Bankruptcy Is Always Local	in the spotlight Counterparty Risk: What You Don't Know Will Hurt You profiles in partnership Telling a Story in a Challenging Environment Quadriserv, Inc. and Patton Boggs LLP in the spotlight Crimes of Opportunity: Protect Your Trademarks From Online Fraudsters in the spotlight Respond Carefully to Notification of Adversely Held Patents back cover Upcoming Counsel to Counsel Forums

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Archive of Past Issues

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