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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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 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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Every once in awhile, I have the inkling to make a blog post
that is not about developments in privacy litigation or technology
litigation or cloud computing law or foreclosures or any of the
other endless stream of ideas and legal thoughts that pass across
my desk. This is one of those times. Because, while I
think it is important for our readers to know that Mexico passed a
new data privacy law or that litigation related to CAN SPAM is
likely a rising field, I think it is equally important...
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You might wonder why an Indiana law firm with a practice
in several areas of technology (Indiana Internet
Litigation, SaaS Legal Consulting to name just two) finds
itself supporting a golf outing that raises money for
adoption? "As a firm that prides itself on supporting the
local community, we don't always align our charitable giving
strictly to serve our immediate demographic. There are many
organizations deserving of our support and Adoptions of Indiana is
certainly one of them," comments...
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Given the firm's
technology legal counsel and software litigation practice, it
only makes sense that the firm would support the prestigious
2010 Techpoint MIRA Awards Gala taking place on
Saturday, May 15th, 2010. It makes for a positive synergy
between the two groups.
The TechPoint Mira Awards, presented by BKD, is the premier
technology awards program in the state of Indiana. Since the
turn of the century, TechPoint has honored Indiana businesses,
schools and universities, and individuals for...
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Your friendly
neighborhood technology legal counsel here for Part 2 of my
riveting analysis of the dreaded "venue-selection clause" In
Part 1, I scared you with the reality that when you absently click,
"I agree" you are very likely binding yourself to litigate any
dispute in a location that is likely not conducive to your case or
your pocketbook. And I'm sure that the point you've been
wondering about since last we interacted is, "what can I do about
it". Unfortunately, the answer is not...
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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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Keeping
up with software clients can be a challenge for technology legal
counsel.
The software as a service industry evolves quickly, time-lines are
condensed, and the playing field yesterday can look decidedly
different than it looks today. The name of the game for a
SaaS company is to stay ahead of the pack and become known as THE
leader in its industry.
I recently read an article in Entrepreneur magazine about Search
Engine Optimization titled
What You Don't Know About
SEO.
What I DO know...
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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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Google announced in its blog today that Los Angeles has officially
switched to using Google Apps for e-mail and collaboration.
34,000 city employees will now be using the Google cloud to do
their work and, more importantly, their communication. This
is a substantial development in cloud computing law. This
will highlight the pros and cons of cloud computing for the
future,and is likely to shape the success of other municipalities
going the same way. Data issues and privacy litigation...
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So
you've launched your company and hired a web-developer to breathe
life into the idea you've poured your heart and soul into
developing over the past several months, perhaps even
years...
Maybe you never even thought to ask the question, but at
the end of the day who actually owns "your" website? You or
the web designer?
Indiana software litigation in a ruling by the Supreme Court of
Indiana,
Conwell v. Gray Loon Outdoor Marketing Group,
points to the fact that hiring a contractor for the...
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Here
at Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP, often times we work with clients
who have software that inherently transcends state and national
borders.
Not just brick and mortor storefronts, many of our clients
have customers nationwide and around the world.
Such is the realm of cloud computing law, and it's up to us as
technology legal counsel to answer the inescapable question of what
state, federal, or even country's law applies should a lawsuit
arise.
Well, if you haven't contracted for this simple...
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The following post by Pat Horgan
of Palidan Associates was printed on the
E-Sourcing Forum a couple of weeks ago. Even
though the post applies particularly to sourcing professionals, the
concepts are excellent for most contract negotiations.
NEGOTIATING TIPSContract Document Control
In contract development, the party that controls the physical
production of the contract document and the wording changes during
negotiations generally has a distinct advantage. This is
particularly true in long or...
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According to a recent
Gartner research report, worldwide SaaS
revenues are expected to grow 18 percent in 2009 to reach $7.5
billion. The report further stated an expectation for SaaS
industries through 2013 when worldwide revenues are expected to top
$14 billion for enterprise application markets.
Gartner listed the top SaaS market segments for 2009 as
follows:
1. Content, Communications and
Collaboration (CCC) - $2.6 billion
2. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - $2.3 billion
3. Enterprise...
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There is a great four part series on
the
SpendMatters blog which walks
through one industry expert's story of the rise of
Iasta as a global leader in eSourcing
markets. This was fun for me to read. I am going on my
ninth year of representing Iasta as it's Business law / SaaS law
counsel and have loved seeing them grow from a modest Midwest
auction software provider to a global SaaS eScouring leader.
It is definitely worth a re-post on The Business & Culture
Blog.
The article is by Jason Busch,...
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