10/15/2004· Crisis Management
Dealers, Healers, Brutes And Saviors: Eight Winning Styles For Solving Giant Business Problems
By: Gerald C. Meyers
Strong, well-organized labor can quickly cripple a miscalculating company.Any company bent on progress with a minimum of labor interference must keep its workforce watered and well-fed, and keep labor relations in apple-pie order
9/21/2004· Failure Analysis
Contemporary Skin Barrier Wall Design And Water Leakage
For hundreds of years, building walls were constructed of stone or brick and were sometimes several feet thick. Such massive walls served well not only to sup port the floors and roof but also to keep out the weather
9/21/2004· Machinery
The Value of Lubricants and Lubrication Knowledge and Skills
By: John H. Marino
For me it is fascinating that in this highly competitive global marketplace, so many American companies lack the lubricants and lubrication knowledge or skills needed to protect, let alone achieve, the greatest return on their production machinery
8/19/2004· Underwriting
All Should Use Greater Care Handling Underwriting Information
One of the tenets of insurance law is that parties to an insurance policy are expected to deal with each other in utmost good faith. Applicants for insurance or their brokers must disclose all relevant underwriting information fully and accurately to prospective insurers
8/14/2004· Computer Forensics
Computer Sleuth: Beating Down The Evidence Trail With Computer Forensics
By: Robert P. Green and Scott Cooper
Think Sherlock Holmes sans the goofy hat and magnifying glass. Today ’s digital sleuths enlist the tactics that once were only the purview of FBI and police investigators.The tools of computer forensics play a vital role in resolving matters in the corporate world and litigation process by enhancing the evidence pool, establishing truths otherwise left undiscovered and, consequently, contributing to more efficient and rapid resolution, judgments or settlements
8/4/2004· Computer Forensics
Drilling-Down To The Truth From Computer Evidence
Disputes over failed software construction projects raise interlinked technical and legal issues which are complex, costly, and time-consuming to unravel – whatever the financial size of the claims and counterclaims, the facts and circumstances of the contract between the parties, or the conduct of the software development
8/4/2004· Computers
Recognizing Early The Signature Of Dispro - The IT Disaster Project
I spent much of a whole year recently investigating why a major IT outsourcing deal broke down, and had given rise to the largest software contract dispute yet seen in the English High Court
7/31/2004· Pain Management
I think every doctor has several patients that are etched into his memory. One such patient was Dr. G. He was a doctor, the same age that I was, and he had cancer. Cancer pain is different from other pains
4/25/2004· Expert Witnessing
Timing is Important In Selecting An Expert Witness
By: Peter H. Burgher
A prominant southeastern Michigan law firm specializing in certain types of litigation recently asked me if I was able to serve as an expert regarding measurement of damages in an employee discharge case
3/30/2004· Professional Malpractice
Management Mistakes in Healthcare: A Disturbing Silence
By: Paul B. Hofmann, Dr PH, FACHE
The belated but formal acknowledgement of medical errors and their impact has been well documented.1 Curiously, the topic of management or executive mistakes in healthcare is not raised in professional meetings nor, until recently, addressed by an article in health administration journals
