Do you have an “extreme” in-house job?
by Editors on December 18, 2006
Rees Morrison of the Law Department Management blog has a recent post that may spin off a reality TV show – in-house lawyers with extreme jobs:
"As defined by a task force’s recent report, a corporate attorney has an “extreme job” if the attorney works 60 hours a week and suffers at least five additional characteristics from a list of 10. According to the NY Times, Dec. 3, 2006 at Sec. 10, pg. 1, "These [blights] include fast-paced work under tight deadlines, responsibility for profit and loss, a large amount of travel, an unpredictable flow of work, and work-related events outside business hours.”"
Link: Law Department Management: Some senior in-house lawyers hold “extreme jobs”.
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Do you have an Open Mind for Open Source Software?
by Editors on January 5, 2005
Open source software (OSS) is here to stay – many companies have extensive OSS deployments – and many web presences of Fortune 500 companies rely heavily on OSS. Many IT managers find OSS to be cheaper, more flexible and more secure than proprietary software offered by the software behemoths (e.g., Oracle, SAP, etc.). OSS is having a major impact on how companies deal with IT projects, mergers and acquisitions and the development of key intellectual property assets. In an article published by our friends at the Practising Law Institute, Stephen Mutkoski of Microsoft Corporation (yes, that Microsoft – they know the OSS score) lays out some of the issues involved with using OSS in development projects. One of the most interesting tidbits in the article is a presentation slide that references an article from Oreilly.net that discussed the real economic losses that can result from OSS issues:
"When IBM acquired Think Dynamics, a painstaking manual examination of its code revealed 80 to 100 examples of open source code that Think Dynamics programmers had passed off as their own. As a result, the price of that company went down from 67 million dollars to 46 million–not a happy moment for its owners and shareholders, I’m sure."
More to come on OSS issues.
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