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Switch Raised Strategic Funding To Expand Cloud-Based Phone System
May 23, 2015
Switch follows a similar track of those earlier products, enabling communications via voice and text on multiple devices, including mobile phones and desktops. Users get a universal number that they can be reached at regardless of device, and apps to enable easy communications between team members. The company hopes to capitalize on a general trend of enterprises moving toward cloud apps and services. While that’s true for storage, collaboration and other communications services, most businesses...
May 23, 2015
Switch follows a similar track of those earlier products, enabling communications via voice and text on multiple devices, including mobile phones and desktops. Users get a universal number that they can be reached at regardless of device, and apps to enable easy communications between team members. The company hopes to capitalize on a general trend of enterprises moving toward cloud apps and services. While that’s true for storage, collaboration and other communications services, most businesses...
Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act Promises Speedy Arbitrations
May 23, 2015
A powerful new tool now exists for companies seeking quick, efficient, and private resolution of business disputes. The Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act (DRAA), enacted in April 2015, streamlines the process for initiating arbitrations, sets tight deadlines for completion, automatically confirms awards without court intervention, and provides speedy and final resolution of challenges directly to the Delaware Supreme Court. And the DRAA cleverly ensures quick completion of the process by imposing financial...
May 23, 2015
A powerful new tool now exists for companies seeking quick, efficient, and private resolution of business disputes. The Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act (DRAA), enacted in April 2015, streamlines the process for initiating arbitrations, sets tight deadlines for completion, automatically confirms awards without court intervention, and provides speedy and final resolution of challenges directly to the Delaware Supreme Court. And the DRAA cleverly ensures quick completion of the process by imposing financial...
Adobe Acrobat DC Improves On A Law Office Staple
May 23, 2015
I reported here last month that Adobe had officially launched an all-new version of its Acrobat PDF software, Acrobat DC. In the weeks...
May 23, 2015
I reported here last month that Adobe had officially launched an all-new version of its Acrobat PDF software, Acrobat DC. In the weeks...
Negotiation Situations: Examples of When Negotiators Assume Too Much
May 23, 2015
Negotiation situations, examples of when negotiators know too much or too little at the bargaining table, and how to deal with information asymmetry in negotiation Negotiation situations, examples including when negotiators assume too much about their counterparts at the bargaining table, present unique challenges to negotiators, each depending on the overall bargaining situation and context. One pitfall is that decision makers often overlook others’ viewpoints. When we do take others’ thinking...
May 23, 2015
Negotiation situations, examples of when negotiators know too much or too little at the bargaining table, and how to deal with information asymmetry in negotiation Negotiation situations, examples including when negotiators assume too much about their counterparts at the bargaining table, present unique challenges to negotiators, each depending on the overall bargaining situation and context. One pitfall is that decision makers often overlook others’ viewpoints. When we do take others’ thinking...
Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks
May 22, 2015
For people in demanding professional jobs, passing may seem like a tempting strategy. After all, passing allows one to avoid long, often unnecessary work hours, without eliciting any penalty. Career-wise, it is certainly less costly than transparency. Yet passing may not be possible for everyone. Passing effectively requires both strong relationships within the firm and the networks necessary to find local clients, and not everyone has equally strong relationships or networks. In addition, women’s...
May 22, 2015
For people in demanding professional jobs, passing may seem like a tempting strategy. After all, passing allows one to avoid long, often unnecessary work hours, without eliciting any penalty. Career-wise, it is certainly less costly than transparency. Yet passing may not be possible for everyone. Passing effectively requires both strong relationships within the firm and the networks necessary to find local clients, and not everyone has equally strong relationships or networks. In addition, women’s...
Current Trends in International Investment Arbitration
May 22, 2015
As global trade and investment continue to expand at an almost exponential rate, firms and their legal teams are increasingly exploring how to address disputes that cross borders. Although there are various ways in which dispute resolution may occur in cross-border contexts, international arbitration is becoming increasingly popular. Further, within international arbitration, it is international investment arbitration that seems to have garnered the lion’s share of recent headlines. For example,...
May 22, 2015
As global trade and investment continue to expand at an almost exponential rate, firms and their legal teams are increasingly exploring how to address disputes that cross borders. Although there are various ways in which dispute resolution may occur in cross-border contexts, international arbitration is becoming increasingly popular. Further, within international arbitration, it is international investment arbitration that seems to have garnered the lion’s share of recent headlines. For example,...
A 10-Minute Meditation to Help You Solve Conflicts at Work
May 22, 2015
There are few things at work as stressful as feeling that you can’t communicate with someone who has an impact on how well you do your job and on the quality of your experience at work. How many times have you thought carefully about something you want to communicate to your boss, a colleague, or subordinate, only to find yourself leaving the conversation feeling angry or frustrated by how it went? * * * To understand why we get clumsy in difficult relationships, consider that habitual patterns...
May 22, 2015
There are few things at work as stressful as feeling that you can’t communicate with someone who has an impact on how well you do your job and on the quality of your experience at work. How many times have you thought carefully about something you want to communicate to your boss, a colleague, or subordinate, only to find yourself leaving the conversation feeling angry or frustrated by how it went? * * * To understand why we get clumsy in difficult relationships, consider that habitual patterns...
Don’t Let Emotions Screw Up Your Decisions
May 21, 2015
Think about a time you were weighing an important decision at work or considering a big expense such as a buying a house, making a hefty financial investment, or a starting a new business. Such decisions are inherently complex, and — no matter how much experience we have making them — working through the pros and cons of each choice can be overwhelming. Our emotional reactions to these choices may be useful in directing our attention and energy toward what we feel are the most important aspects...
May 21, 2015
Think about a time you were weighing an important decision at work or considering a big expense such as a buying a house, making a hefty financial investment, or a starting a new business. Such decisions are inherently complex, and — no matter how much experience we have making them — working through the pros and cons of each choice can be overwhelming. Our emotional reactions to these choices may be useful in directing our attention and energy toward what we feel are the most important aspects...
What Every Judge Should Know about a Rule 23 Settlement
May 21, 2015
For the past 50 years, Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has required district court judges to scrutinize proposed class settlements. Judges are told their duty to absent class members is akin to a fiduciary duty. We are reminded that district judges must “exercise the highest degree of vigilance in scrutinizing proposed settlements of class actions.” Reynolds v. Beneficial Nat’l Bank, 288 F.3d 277, 279–80 (7th Cir. 2002). In its present form, Rule 23(e) permits approval only...
May 21, 2015
For the past 50 years, Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has required district court judges to scrutinize proposed class settlements. Judges are told their duty to absent class members is akin to a fiduciary duty. We are reminded that district judges must “exercise the highest degree of vigilance in scrutinizing proposed settlements of class actions.” Reynolds v. Beneficial Nat’l Bank, 288 F.3d 277, 279–80 (7th Cir. 2002). In its present form, Rule 23(e) permits approval only...
Don Philbin Recognized in Int’l Who’s Who Legal of Commercial Mediation
May 21, 2015
Attorney-Mediator Don Philbin has been listed among the 296 individuals, only eight of which are Texas lawyers, to be recognized...
May 21, 2015
Attorney-Mediator Don Philbin has been listed among the 296 individuals, only eight of which are Texas lawyers, to be recognized...
