Special to Law.com
May 15, 2008
About 10 percent of the biotech work force was born outside the United States. Although the tensions and challenges faced by employers with a melting pot of nationalities in their work force may be unique, application of labor and employment laws is not. Attorneys Mary Dollarhide and Hannah Cole write that biotech companies must apply the same vigor and creativity they use in developing new technologies and products to creating solutions that allow compliance with applicable employment laws.
Law Technology News
May 15, 2008
With increasingly complex IT systems, virtualization may be the way to go for small to midsize law
firms -- it can also reduce their "carbon footprint." Server virtualization is the partitioning of a physical server into smaller virtual servers; instead of servers running at 10 percent or less capacity at certain points in the day, virtual servers can share hardware resources. This can result in a significantly higher average usage rate, lowering hardware and support costs.
Fulton County Daily Report
May 15, 2008
It's been more than two months since Elizabeth Calvert, an attorney at HunterMaclean in Savannah, Ga., and a Hilton Head Island, S.C., resident, and her husband went missing. Eight days after the couple's disappearance, their former accountant -- who may have been the last person to see them -- committed suicide. The case is still under investigation, but hope for the Calverts' return is dwindling. "Any good outcome here is disappearing, it seems," says HunterMaclean managing partner John Tatum.