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Growing your business or advancing your career requires a strategic plan and set of skills that will help you to differentiate your legal services or products from those of everyone else. Join Susan Letterman White, Esq. for Part 2 of this two-part series in which she explains the process and skills needed to develop and execute a strategic plan for yourself or your small firm.

Leadership, in today’s large and medium-sized law firms, must be built upon a foundation of innovation and relationships. Excellence in leadership requires more than a charismatic personality or ability to influence others. Join Susan Letterman White, Esq. for Part 2 of this two-part series in which she explains the actions and skills needed to successfully develop and advance firm-wide, practice group, and other client-development marketing strategies.

Growing your business or advancing your career requires a strategic plan and set of skills that will help you to differentiate your legal services or products from those of everyone else. Join Susan Letterman White, Esq. for this two-part series in which she explains the process and skills needed to develop and execute a strategic plan for yourself or your small firm. Part 2 continues on June 3, 2010.

Leadership, in today’s large and medium-sized law firms, must be built upon a foundation of innovation and relationships. Excellence in leadership requires more than a charismatic personality or ability to influence others. Join Susan Letterman White, Esq. for this two-part series in which she explains the actions and skills needed to successfully develop and advance firm-wide, practice group, and other client-development marketing strategies. Part 2 continues on June 2, 2010.

In Reed Elsevier, the Supreme Court unanimously held that federal courts could maintain jurisdiction over settlements involving non-registered works, even though the plain language of the statute seems to state that no lawsuit for infringement of such works can be brought. This ruling should allow for greater judicial review of cases involving large groups of parties interested in securing rights in the digital age, but it may have unintended consequences. Join us as Anthony F. Lo Cicero of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP discusses the impact of Reed Elsevier on copyright infringement cases.

Venture capital funds expect technology start-up companies to "look" a certain way. Our ongoing new series continues this month with Peter Townshend and Monique Ho of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, who review the legal options that emerging companies planning to seek VC funding should consider. Topics include form of entity, state of jurisdiction, initial capitalization, contribution of intellectual property by founders and appointment and compensation of boards of directors, officers and advisory boards, as well as common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Venture capital financings continue to be one of the most popular methods through which technology start up companies raise funds. In this presentation, part of an ongoing new series, Peter Townshend and George Colindres of McDermott Will & Emery LLP focus on the "VC" term sheet, using it as a springboard to discuss the meanings and legal implications of various VC financing terms of art, the purpose of the various documents in a financing and how these terms and financing documents affect emerging companies and their founders.

Technology start up companies and entrepreneurs seeking venture capital often find the legal terms demanded by venture capital lists to be onerous. However, the terms demanded by these "VCs" are dictated in large part by the legal structure of VC funds and the demands by the investors in these funds on the VCs. Join Peter Townshend, a partner in McDermott Will & Emery LLP, who discusses the structure of VC funds and describes how this structure affects VC-backed preferred stock financings and the emerging companies and founders that accept VC funding.

At the heart of any climate change trial will be the presentation of scientific evidence concerning responsibility for climate changes alleged to have had cataclysmic adverse effects on our planet. Join William Ruskin, Alton Hall and Sheila Woolson, all partners at Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., as they focus on the status of the scientific debate in which claims of fraud, spoliation of evidence, and undue influence have become inextricably intertwined with the scientific debate. In addressing key issues about the starting point for an examination of the science and whether the rhetoric can be filtered out of the discussion—or not—our presenters discuss two electrifying Circuit Court of Appeals cases handed down in 2009, Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co., et al., 582 F.3d 309 (2d Cir. 2009) and Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, et al., 585 F.3d 855 (5th Cir. 2009), which may set the stage for this litigation in the years

Terminations and discipline expose employers, and their managers and supervisors, to potential liability under a myriad of employment and labor statutes. Terminations and discipline imparted by management can be attacked as discriminatory, retaliatory or otherwise illegal under a host of federal and state statutory and common laws. Join Louis DiLorenzo, a partner in Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, as he discusses ways to impose discipline so as to minimize the risk of such claims and enhance the ability of your client organization and its agents to defend against claims that cannot be avoided. Topics include: • The importance of discipline and the benefits of progressive discipline. • The Seven Steps organizations and their supervisors should review before imposing discipline. • DiLorenzo's two corollaries to the Seven Steps (dealing with avoiding accommodation and retaliation issues). • The different disciplinary tools available to management, including action plans and last chance agreements, and the advantages they offer. • The