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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War
at its best is barbarism.
Every attempt to make war easy
and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
--William Tecumseh Sherman
Though he said these words nearly a
century and a half ago, General Sherman’s comments apply equally
well to litigation, including the world of business law, technology
law, SaaS law, and probate law.
Litigation is a serious business, not something to be undertaken
lightly. And it is often expensive –
regardless of...
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This is one of those great posts that gets to combine cloud
computing law with privacy law with political intrigue.
Before I get too far in, I want to set out my own caveat. In
my opinion, there is a data war brewing between the United
States, EU, and China and everyone if vying for the top dog
spot. The basis of this is the fact that each faction views
the protection of data very differently and they each want to be
the best. To just give you a surface level scratch of the
differences I'll...
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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 friendly neighborhood technology counsel here: A couple
of recent state court decisions are going to start personal injury
attorneys frothing at the mouth, and might render some sleepless
nights for defense attorneys. Both Ohio and Florida recently
issued opinions in which they applied their state's respective
long-arm statutes to garner personal jurisdiction over an
out-of-state resident for tortious conduct that transpired over the
Internet.
First, you need to know what a long-arm...
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Be
prepared: I'm going to get on a bit of a soapbox. I
read a recent article at WSJ.com entitled "Using Social Networking
as Legal Tool" (
Linked Below). There is
nothing wrong with this article. It very succinctly and
pleasantly explains how certain law firms are using social
networking and the Web to find clients for high-value plaintiff
cases. And I don't disagree with that approach. As an
attorney posting on a blog, I too hope to use social networking to
get business, and would be...
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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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You may have read that inaction by Congress is creating a lot
of uncertainty about the future of the estate tax. Unlike the
income tax, which is based on a year’s worth of activity, the
federal estate tax is based on a snapshot – the value of a person’s
estate at the date of his or her death. Unless Congress
acts, we are headed from having no federal estate tax in 2010 back
to taxing estates larger than $1 million, just like in 2002.
And, instead of the 2002 top rate of 50% on this...
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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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Your friendly neighborhood technology lawyer here: Clients
and colleagues often ask me to explain what I mean when I say
"technology litigation". And, to be frank, that term is
really composed of several different subsets of the law. One
such subset is privacy law. Over the next several blog posts,
I will provide a general overview of privacy law and privacy
litigation to arm you, my humble reader, with the knowledge to
assist your company (as well impress your friends at
parties).
The...
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Your friendly neighborhood technology lawyer here: As
you know, I'm a bit of a technophile and I've been watching the
iPad craze with interest. There are other similar products
that will be inundating the market in the near future (HP Slate and
the one that I'm watching with anticipation, Notion Ink's
Adam). As I watch, I've come to the conclusion that
tablet computers are the future of litigation, whether you're
talking privacy litigation, SaaS litigation, personal injury
litigation, or...
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Your friendly neighborhood
technology legal counsel here to discuss with you the hidden
dangers lurking in your unassuming (and unread) terms of service
agreements. Janet Croswell, one of our fabulous tech lawyers,
posted back on February 10, 2010 about the pitfalls that businesses
face related to the clickwrap agreement (here's a link for those
playing along at home
blog.alerdingcastor.com/blog/alerding-castor).
Now for those of you scratching your head and wondering what a
"clickwrap...
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Your friendly neighborhood technology legal counsel here: One
of the greatest aspects of our firm is the fact that we, as
attorneys, get to partner with our clients to assist in the
development of their dreams. Additionally, while we focus on
being the general counsel for all business types and sizes, one of
my personal areas of passion is seeing new technology based clients
develop and partnering with them to see their success.
One such emerging company that I'm happy to say we are...
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Congratulations
are in order to Brian Hewitt, the newest parter of Alerding Castor
Hewitt, LLP, who was recognized this week as one of Indiana's 2010
top 50 Super Lawyers.
Brian concentrates his practice on estate, trust,
and guardianship planning, administration, and litigation; and
mediation and business law.
He is a Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist, a
Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and a
member of the Probate Litigation Committee of the...
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I have taken a few
weeks off of blogging. Honestly, I felt like I needed the
break, but I am excited about getting back on the saddle and
writing again.
Since it has been a few weeks, let me give a brief update on what
we have been up to. Alerding Castor Hewitt has had an
exciting beginning to 2010. On January 1, Bill Boncosky
joined us. Bill is a business attorney / technology and SaaS
law attorney working with privately held companies, primarily in
technology industries. Bill has spent the...
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Alerding
Castor Hewitt, LLP is proud to announce the addition of Indiana
technology lawyer Bill Boncosky to the firm.
The former General Counsel for ExactTarget, Bill has tremendous
experience as technology counsel for one of the most successful
technology start ups based right here in the heart of
Indianapolis. A company that had just over a dozen employees
when he joined, Bill has substantial experience in licensing
agreement negotiations, ASP Law and Cloud Computing Law serving in
that role...
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Closing
in on the end of 2009 I have to say that I am quite pleased
with the commitment Indiana showed this year to be a State that
supports and promotes innovation, entreprenuership and business
growth.
This week I had breakfast with Larry O'Connor, Executive Director
of
Butler
University's Business Accelerator. Larry is a former CEO
of Bank One Indiana. Following his "retirement", Larry became
CEO of The IndianapolisMuseumm of Art, and recently took the
position to lead theAcceleratorr...
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New technology businesses usually face two hurdles to get their
product to market. The first is proof of concept. The
second is proof of scale.
Both are intended to solve the “Ability” stage of the business plan
process and move the business into the "Meeting" stage:
Recognition of Market ->
Recognition of Market Opportunity -> Ability to Meet Market
Opportunity -> Meeting Market Opportunity at Profit
Proof of concept is simply the proof that the business can develop
a working prototype that...
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