Message sent…wait, was that a contract? With a daily average of 105 emails, 45 text messages, innumerable tweets, posts, and pics flying in and out at the click, the average professional participating in the global market economy has reached the era of informal instant communication. (The Radicati Group Email Statistics Report 2009-2013) But despite the…

AIIM quotes John Isaza as sating that obstacles to electronic record disposition are the exception and not the rule. A cursory survey of authorization and disposition requirements in Federal statutes and regulations and in all 50 states produced few requirements. In general, the private sector may rely on compliance with the records retention schedule as…

In the Q3 edition of Private Opportunities Club, a publication of NewsMax, Rimon’s Yaacov Silberman is quoted on the advent and risks of “Secondary Markets”. The entire article can be viewed, here.

Navigating the enforceability of employer-employee arbitration provisions—seldom a straightforward task under California law—has been rendered more difficult following two recent California Court of Appeal decisions interpreting state precedent, the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), and the United States Supreme Court’s opinions in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp. and AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion. In the first of these…

The Silicon Valley Business Journal discusses socially responsible companies, B-Corps, and Benefit Corporations with Rimon’s Michael Moradzadeh in Run a socially responsible company? Make it official. You can read the article here.

Rimon’s Michael Moradzadeh and Yaacov Silberman discuss one of the problems with the conventional law firm model in the National Law Journal. Click here to read the op-ed.

Rimon’s Thomas White presented alongside Illinois Senator Heather Steans and and Rep. David Harris at the Institute for Truth in Accounting. The press release describing the event can be found here: http://www.pr.com/press-release/403759

In the summer edition of the EDDE Journal, a publication of the American Bar Association, Rimon’s John Isaza continues his series on Information Management best practices. In this second article, Ms. Helen Streck, the CEO of Kaizen InfoSource, LLC shares a detailed list of RIM standards and guidelines she has collected over the years. The entire article…

Why obey federal trademark law (aka the Lanham Act) when you can just pass a new law that exempts you from it? Montana’s Senators sure are slick and I’m betting the Last Best Beef wishes it had a beef with any other State besides Montana! Instead of federally registering and enforcing its rights in Montana’s…

Patents are back in the news. In the past few weeks alone, Microsoft bought AOL’s patent portfolio for $1 billion, then resold much of it to Facebook for $550 million. Twitter pledged to use its patents only defensively, and to give its employee-inventors a say in the company’s future patent litigation strategy. Controversial trials, appeals, rulings, and awards continue—prompting the Wall…