This has been a pretty turbulent week in Ukraine: on Tuesday, the parliament fired Volodymyr Ohryzko, Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister, and on Wednesday, riot police stormed the Kyiv headquarters of Naftogaz, the Ukrainian national energy company. Ukrainiana wrote this about the foreign affairs ...

By Guest Blogger, Mary Schmidt, Marketing Troubleshooter Over a glass of vino the other night, a fellow businesswoman did an eye-rolling riff on “Housewives with Hobbies.�  Now - before I go on – let me state for the record I have nothing against housewives (or stay-at-home Moms), hobbies or ...

Coming today to Fat Friday : Birney Bull discusses how document assembly transformed his practice, Phil Fragasso shares a story about what makes a successful rainmaker, John Kennedy explains the importance of knowledge management in a law firm, Bobby Abrams responds to a recent TechnoEditorial about...

“Venture capital is dead. It’s gone.” Sir Terry Matthews didn’t mince words Thursday morning as the keynote speaker at OCRI’s Technology Executive Breakfast. Not that he ever does. And while some might argue that statement about the status of Canada’s venture capi...

What matters is that you can actually make a difference and you are willing to work your ass off for it. Do you think that all of your passion to make a living in your area of expertise matters at all to someone out there trying to keep their own world in order? There are a thousand times ten profes...

Originally published on February 16, 2009 in our free SmallLaw newsletter. One of my 2009 predictions was that the pace of large law firm downsizing through layoffs, or even dissolving, would increase. With Heller, Thelen, and Thatcher unthinkably gone, and the "Valentine's Day Massacre&quo...

The sale has been approved, and the new owners of Hard Rock Park have agreed to honor 2008 annual passes for 2009, the Sun News is reporting today. FPI MB Entertainment has also pledged to invest $15 million in readying the park for a Memorial Day weekend reopening; hire 750 locals; and indicated th...

I am constantly amazed at how many of your customers get the bulk of their IT news from blogs. That’s right, blogs. In fairness, they tend to take the source into consideration when evaluating the quality of the information; corporate blogs may be less trustworthy than an independent source, but y...

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat - good coders code, great reuse - Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss Army knife” utility, and for a good reason. Just like the multi-function usefulness of the venerable Swiss Army pocket knife, netcat’s functionality is as helpful....

Hard Rock Park may not be history just yet. The Sun News reported late Tuesday that a buyer has come forward, willing to pay $25 million for the property – as is, with the intention of fully opening by Memorial Day weekend. Stay tuned …...