A simplified and practical overview of standard and optional items to include in template  and non-template letters.

Professionals in public relations and law are starting to get over a long-standing antithesis towards each other. This is the observation by PR specialist, Grant Common of Network PR, in this 2003 article by him. The article ends with tips by Noric Dilanchian on public relations in legal matters.

Business survival requires strategies informed by competition law. This is illustrated by failures at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Lab, the competition between the Apple and Windows operating systems, and the US Justice Department legal actions against IBM and more recently Microsoft. First published in The Australian.

A repeated warning heard during the Second World War was "loose lips sink ships". Nowadays a major hazard to wealth protection comes from loose emails. Click this article to find out how clueless emails lose loot as quickly as you can click the mouse and say "oops!"

A succinct framework and legal audit for e-commerce legal risk management. The recommendation is to apply first principles and not fall victim to the "reinventing the wheel" syndrome. Reference is made to the Dilanchian Deal Making Process Improvement Guidelines.

To avoid death by litigation, start improving your team's writing habits today. Left uncorrected, poor writing hinders performance of higher level tasks such as record management, document management, knowledge management, and contract management. Poor writing habits can land you and your company a fine, penalty, legal damages, criminal record and time in gaol. It's that serious.