The first caveat is that I'm sorry I haven't posted anything
recently. Work here at Alerding Castor Hewitt has been going
like gangbusters and yours truly has been up to his distinguished
eyeballs in work. Trust me, however, I'm now dutifully
committing myself to continue providing insight and humor as your
Indiana Internet Litigation guru.
Second caveat is that this post actually has nothing to do with
privacy litigation, software litigation or really any other
technology law issues. ...
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Indianapolis, IN – Mike Alerding, founding partner of Alerding
Castor Hewitt LLP, is slated to teach Business Law at Harrison
College this spring. The course combines the understanding of
legal theory with the acquaintance of the various forms of
contracts. Students will be taught the essentials of the
legal environment of business, tort law, contracts, commercial
transactions, government relations and property.
“I am teaching because I enjoy the process of observing the
improvement and...
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Your friendly neighborhood litigation attorney at Alerding Castor
Hewitt, LLP with a final post for the year to all of our business,
Indiana internet litigation, and technology law
clients. Saturday, December
25th will no doubt be a date of celebration in many
homes. As you spend time with your
family, remember how special the day is and all of the changes that
have taken place in the last 20 years.
Some of you might wonder what I mean exactly. I’m not referring to Christmas. And for those...
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I hope that you all had a thankful and fulfilling turkey day.
Your friendly neighborhood technology legal counsel stuffed
himself horrendously. But, I digress. I know that I owe
you all part 2 of my discussion of the legal landscape of corporate
blogging, and I promise that I will get that posted in the near
future, but two recent opinions in some non-Indiana Internet
litigation piqued my interest and I had to talk about them.
Both rulings involve application of the liability...
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Here at Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP, one thing that we are called
upon to do as business law, SaaS law, and technology counsel for
our clients is collect on a judgment. I
have previously posted on other topics in the collections world,
which you can find here and here. Today’s topic
is in answer to the question we sometimes get: how long is my judgment good for?
A decision today by the Indiana Court of Appeals in the estate case
of In the Matter of the Unsupervised Estate of
Dwight M. Wilson...
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Next week I am moderating the plenary panel at TechPoint’s
Innovation Summit entitled
Funding Innovation.
Check it out:
TechPoint
Innovation Summit
Also check out the
sponsors page. I
counted today, and
nine Alerding Castor
Hewitt clients are sponsors of the Summit. That is
awesome.
This year’s panel members represent private equity investors, angel
investor groups, successful entrepreneurs and grant funding
organizations which look for funding and investment opportunities
in Indiana...
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Firm founder and partner, David Castor, is slated to host a
Compendium Webinar entitled "The Legal Landscape of Corporate
Blogging." The webinar takes place on November 3rd from
2:00p-3:00p EST.
Dave plans to address the do's and don'ts of online
marketing, how to protect your intellectual capital
and protect your company's bottom
line. Participants were asked to submit questions for
Dave prior to the webinar.
The firm has a strong SaaS law practice, SaaS litigation
practice as well as...
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Another
post that doesn't quite fit neatly into Indiana Internet litigation
or privacy law, but that intrigues me. BusinessWeek, passing
along a Tim Greene article from NetworkWorld (found here:
www.networkworld.com/nwlookup.jsp),
is reporting that the U.S. military has issued an essay in which it
urges its expertise in defense be put to use in protecting civilian
networked infrastructure, such as power grids, financial
institutions, etc. The essay from Foreign Affairs sets out
the concept...
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Your friendly Indianapolis attorney at Alerding Castor Hewitt LLP
here with a history lesson and tie in to business law. Most
of you have probably heard the term “gerrymander” and know that it
refers to a process of dividing a territory into districts in order
to give one political party an advantage over another by
concentrating the voting strength of that party in as many
districts as possible. Fewer of you
probably know the origin of the term, and I imagine that even
fewer know much about...
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FIRM JOINS INNOVATION SUMMIT AS SPONSOR
For the second year in a row, the
firm committed to this year’s Innovation Summit as the Plenary
Panel Sponsor.
This annual event brings together entrepreneurs,
executives and policymakers for learning, dialogue and debate on
the central challenge of today’s economy – turning today’s ideas
into tomorrow’s business breakthroughs. The Summit includes keynote
speakers, breakout sessions on a variety of innovation related
topics, and dozens of trade and...
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Gather 'round kids, this one is interesting. The decision
actually came out in May, 2010, and I regret that I haven't had a
chance to blog on it until now, but it is still a very interesting
order that should have implications to privacy litigation, and
litigation in general. In EEOC v. Simply Storage Management,
LLC, Docket No. 09-CV-01223, the Southern District of Indiana was
faced with the issue of discovery of social networking profiles of
two individuals that claimed sexual harrassment by...
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It’s not often that we at Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP run into
issues regarding the payment of commissions for our business law,
SaaS law, and Indiana technology clients. When the subject does arise, however, it usually
occurs when an employee separates from employment and makes a wage
claim for unpaid commissions. The
debate about whether the commissions are wages centers on whether
the employee was entitled to the commission at the time of sale OR
when the client pays for the product,...
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Your friendly Indianapolis attorney at Alerding Castor Hewitt LLP
here with an issue for those of you who, from time to time, might
find yourselves embroiled in collections litigation over business
law, SaaS law, or technology law matters. How often have you seen a debtor issue a check for
payment and include on the memo line words to the effect of “as
full satisfaction of claim,” “final payment in full of debt,” or
some similar words despite the fact that the debtor owes you more
than the...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 23, 2010
Contact: Lainey Scheetz
317.403.9012
lscheetz@alerdingcastor.com
ALERDING CASTOR HEWITT, LLP CLIENT NAMED 10TH FASTEST GROWING
PRIVATE COMPANY IN INDIANA FOR THIRD TIME
Indianapolis, IN – Iasta, the leading provider of eSourcing
software and solutions, was titled as the 10th Fastest Growing
Private Company in Indiana for 2010 by the Indianapolis Business
Journal (IBJ). A third time honoree, Iasta boosted its
three-year growth rate at 134 percent.
The report...
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This one is a fun little piece of pseudo-software litigation.
The basic facts are that Facebook and its majority stockholder Mark
Zuckerberg have been sued by Paul D. Ceglia, who claims 84%
ownership in the website juggernaut. The part of this story
that has been clogging the Net is that a state court judge in
New York actually issued a temporary restraining order ("TRO")
prohibiting Zuckerberg and Facebook, Inc. from disposing or
selling any of its assets. This has produced the...
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Your friendly Indianapolis attorney at
Alerding Castor Hewitt LLP here with a quick follow up on my first
blog regarding collections for our business law, technology law,
and SaaS law clients. A link to that
post is listed below for those interested.
One of our Saas law clients recently obtained
a favorable resolution in one of their cases to collect on a
contract from an out-of-state debtor. We had obtained a default judgment for the client and were pressing
forward with the proceeding...
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Your Indianapolis Attorney at Alerding Castor
Hewitt here with another litigation post for the business and
technology world, this time regarding preliminary
injunctions. What is a preliminary
injunction? In simple terms, it is an
equitable remedy that you can seek asking a court to order someone
else to stop doing something or cease threatening to do something
that is causing or is likely to cause you irreparable
harm. It is another weapon in the
litigation arsenal, one to restore the status...
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I am an Indianapolis Attorney here at Alerding
Castor Hewitt LLP. This is my first
blog post – so bear with me. As a brief
introduction, my role at ACH is working on our litigation team,
both at trial and on appeal if necessary, on issues related to
business law, probate litigation, SaaS litigation, and other
technology litigation – just to name a few of the areas.
One area often overlooked in the litigation
process is the area of collections. Some lawyers might look upon the collection process...
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Your
friendly neighborhood technology counsel here: As you likely
know, my goal is to become THE Indiana technology lawyer;
however, technology is not my only area of interest. Like
many of the folks at Alerding Castor Hewitt, technology law
is a passion, but we all strive to be a full service law firm for
all businesses. Thus, in addition to tech stuff, I also
litigate matters for several banking and business clients.
And, as any good lawyer does, when I see changes in the law
that may...
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I must take a moment to open with a caveat. The study of
privacy and hence privacy law or privacy litigation is an analysis
that spans centuries. In fact, while it seems like privacy
issues have only recently come to the forefront with the advent of
technology, they have, in fact, been prevalent in ever major level
of recorded history. I put this point out there to help you
recognize that there are books and books addressing the issues of
privacy and my little foray into the issue is but a...
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