New tech law blog.
IT Manager.NET--run by Roger Bonine--launched in March, and I did not even know about it until I saw it mentioned on Ernie's newsfeed.
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April 22, 2004
April 20, 2004
The Birth of the Megafirm
In a particularly timely manner, LawNet's newest white paper, The Birth of the Megafirm: Mergers and Acquisitions "M/A" is now available for download. Articles in the white paper include:
--Building a Megafirm: The Bingham McCutchen Strategy, by William A. Bachman of Bingham McCutchen LLP.
--The Science of Successful Mergers: Applying Financial Analytics During the Merger Lifecycle by Jeffrey H. Steinberg of Redwood Analytics.
--Leveraging the Sales Culture in Post-Merger Firms, by Barry Solomon of Interface Software, Inc.
--Supporting Document Production in a Newly Merged Firm, by Teresa Morris of Legal MacPac.
--Successful Roll-Ins: Unifying People, Technology and Tradition, by Adriana Linares of LawTech Partners, Inc.
Mergers and acquisitions.
Everyone is joining together...
Wilmer Cutler and Hale & Dorr announced today that the two firms are merging effective May 31.
In a press release on Monday, Interface Software announced the aquisition of Scout Solutions, makers of the Aptus CRM application. Brett Balmer, president and founder of Scout Solutions, will join Interface Software as Director of Technology.
April 10, 2004
Playing Catchup.
Despite being long overdue, Thursday's Blogorama on Kalorama managed to draw a fascinating crowd to this unobtrusive lounge on 18th Street NW. It is not a politically-correct crowd by any means, and we do all sorts of things that THEY discourage... While dominated heavily by bloggers affiliated in one way or another with Cato, there were quite a few of us regular people. Making an appearance? All of the usual suspects (Andrew, Brooke, Gene, Julian, Lex, Missy, Radley, Will) plus a few I was meeting for the first time (Brendon, Courtney whose name is not Jordan, Julia, Jen, and Jim.)
It is always a good time.
April 01, 2004
Federal government enters the social networking realm.
Apparently the Feds have a wonderful new idea. This time, through the IRS, the government is merging all of the data they have been gathering since the PATRIOT Act into a vast social networking application they are calling WYSKster. The acronym stands for Who You Should Know, and is still in beta, but will apparently go live at whoyoushouldknow.gov after April 15. Using data gathered from a variety of sources (including tax records, FBI files, phone logs, and flight manifests) the government will be able to tell any US citizen with a social security number who they knew, who they know, and who they should know.
I truly think this is a fabulous extension of the PATRIOT Act movement into social networking, having always supported the government's PATRIOT Act activities before. Thanks to Rick for the link; he is an always reliable source for these sorts of tips.