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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It has been said a million times already on this blog – a CEO,
especially one which is seeking funds from private equity
investors, needs to understand finance. Often a basic
knowledge of sources and uses and cash flow analysis is enough, but
in many early stage investment rounds, savvy investors expect the
CEO to know the company's internal rate of return (IRR) - and
why it matters.
I meet many entrepreneurs who have served as VPs or middle managers
before embarking on their entrepreneurial...
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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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I can read your mind. You are thinking, "oh, great and
insightful technology legal counsel, what do you mean by a 'legal
landscape' and what does that have to do with blogging?" My
initial response is that, (a) you've asked two questions and (b) if
you plan to use blogging as a component of your business model, you
need to know what potential pitfalls exist. That is the legal
landscape of blogging. It is made up of the hills and valleys
that must be overcome or avoided to reach blogging...
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Thanks to the wonderful folks over at Compendium Blogware, I
presented a fun webinar last week on the Legal Landscape of
Corporate Blogging. Don't fret, dear reader; I intend
to put together several posts over the weekend that hit the
highlights of my presentation. Overall, I discussed topics
like privacy litigation, copyright, defamation, Section 230
protections, etc. The fun stuff of blogging.
One area that I discussed and have had several questions about is
Creative Commons. For those of...
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Last Wednesday, I had the great opportunity to attend the 2010
Techpoint Summit. For those of you that don't know, Techpoint
is organization with the mission of "accelerating Indiana's
emerging and vibrant tech sector" (source:
www.techpoint.org). This great organization fosters and
nurtures the technology sector that is developing in Indiana.
It brings the innovators together and gives them a voice.
And, their yearly summit is an excellent example of the work they
are doing. In the same...
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Alerding Castor
Hewitt, LLP is a business law firm that works with many
technology start-ups in their formation stages and in assisting
with the legal aspects of dealing with private equity
investors.
The entrepreneurial spirit of our clients is inspiring, and I am
looking forward to attending
Techpoint's 2010 Innovation
Summit that will be held in downtown Indianapolis today.
An annual event that Alerding Castor Hewitt is proud to sponsor, it
will feature keynote speaker Nicholas Carr who is a...
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I know that you are expecting witty and poignant analysis
of some new and exciting aspect of technology and / or privacy
litigation, but that's not really the point of this
post. Rather, the impetus of this concoction of literary
excellence is a realization that I had regarding social
media. In the last two weeks I have experienced the following
(all on a large social media site that shall remain nameless but
that has a movie): (1) received birthday announcements and
pictures of my niece in...
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Your friendly Indianapolis attorney at Alerding
Castor Hewitt, LLP here with an overdue update with some possible
interest for our business law clients.
Back at the end of September, the Indiana Supreme Court decided
Bingley v. Bingley, a marriage dissolution case, and
concluded that the employer-provided health insurance benefits of a
retiree constituted an asset once they had vested and should be
included in the marital estate for the distribution of
property. You can read the full opinion
he...
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The last couple of years have been strange. With the change
in the economy, many early stage companies are looking for anybody,
and I mean anybody, to invest in their capital round. As the
economy rebounds (which we are seeing in technology markets)
business owners are again able to be picky when considering angel
investors.
An angel investor (or an angel investor group or private equity
firm) should be more than just a liquid wallet. He/she
should be a strategic member of your team. They...
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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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FIRM GEARS UP FOR MUCH ANTICIPATED INNOVATION SUMMIT
Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP is no stranger to the
technology community - here in Indianapolis and in other domestic
and international markets. The firm highlights its
position in the Indianapolis market by a commitment to this
year’s Innovation Summit as the Plenary Panel Sponsor for the
second year in a row. The Summit is taking place on October
27th in downtown Indianapolis.
David Castor, Founder and Partner of the firm, will serve...
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So I have been a bit behind in blogging these past few weeks.
With the new addition to my family (my 3rd son), life has been
hectic. But, I am back and ready to role.
As a general update, Alerding Castor Hewitt continues expand as
technology legal counsel in SaaS law, funding law and
entrepreneurial law fields. We have some exciting new
Internet-based and SaaS clients. This month we helped a
client negotiate a stock purchase deal and have handled no less
than thirty SaaS or software licensing...
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Your friendly Indianapolis attorney at Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP
here with some exciting news about a SaaS law client and a business
law client: ExactTarget and
O’Reilly’s Irish Bar and Restaurant. Once its build-out is complete, ExactTarget will
be moving some of its people into a new space across the street
from us in the Century Building. This
is a company that continues to grow, and we are excited to witness
it happen and wish ExactTarget continued success.
To help celebrate and...
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In the spirit of entertaining legal stories like the one below that
Chris recently shared with our Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP
audience, I thought I would share a story I ran across yesterday
about a trademark dispute. Also,
because Chris is a connoisseur of fine comfort food, I’m sure that
he will enjoy it.
A restaurant in Bellevue, Washington, John Howie Steak, has come up
with a caloric-intensive burger that starts with grilling a
12-ounce ground chuck patty and then tops it with Kurobuta...
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Ok, I'll admit it. I was in a rut. Although I found
numerous interesting tidbits through-out cyberspace, I could not
find anything that piqued my interest enough to put aside the
billable hours of a technology legal counsel for a few moments to
blog about it. But, lo and behold, a college student with a
sense of panache, an aspiration for humor, decent journaling
skills, and access to PowerPoint and the Internet has become my
muse.
For those of you that don't know, 2010 Duke graduate...
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Your
friendly Indianapolis attorney at Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP with
a brief overview (not an in-depth analysis of all of the legal
issues) of some recent Seventh Circuit decisions involving internet
litigation, trademark disputes, and anti-cybersquatting that could
affect technology, software, and business clients maintaining
websites and engaging in cyber-marketing.
Last Friday, October 1, 2010, the Seventh Circuit upheld the
dismissal of a suit for lack of personal jurisdiction...
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