Writing
Contract Drafting: When Is a Comma Worth $2 M? When Is Boilerplate Not Boilerplate?
A couple of items today emphasize the importance of careful contract negotiation and drafting.
First, the $2M comma:
The Toronto Globe and Mail reports on a dispute over a telecommunications company contract that turned on a single comma.
The company thought it had a five-year deal for stringing cable lines across thousands of utility poles. [...]
Pros and Cons of Company-Sponsored Blogging
In a rather interesting “laundry list” approach, John Summers provides some thoughts about the pros and cons of company-sponsored recruiting blogs.
I think that his list of pros and cons applies to a wide-range of company-sponsored blogs, and both companies and bloggers should examine his list carefully before committing to such a blog.
Some of [...]
BlawgWorld 2006 Now Available for Download Here, No Strings Attached
A few months back, we announced our inclusion in BlawgWorld 2006, a compendium of Blawgs in e-book pdf form that was then available only from Technolawyer and only if you were willing to join Technolawyer, which is free, and decide which, if any, of the Technolawyer newsletters (also free) you wished to receive.
Now, you [...]
No Wonder They Hate HR: And This Ain’t Gonna Help!
A new book entitled Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You to Know is all about the truth concerning HR. Given all the negative press about HR in the last year or so, this book is only going to make HR look worse to employees. Be ready to counter some of the claims!
Software Review — Thompson’s Employee Handbook Builder
I’ve written before about the challenges of preparing and revising employee handbooks.
The ideal solution, particularly for smaller companies, would be a system making it easy and relatively inexpensive to create, distribute, and update handbooks customized to a particular company’s practical and legal compliance needs.
Thompson Publishing Group’s Employee Handbook Builder [...]
