Welcome Back

It’s been a while since my last post. Since then, I became a Partner in the Corporate and Transactions Group at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, a Minneapolis-headquartered firm that has 650 lawyers in 19 offices throughout the U.S., Canada, England, China and Australia. At Dorsey, I have an exceptional group of colleagues who greatly increase the depth and breadth of services I can offer clients. It’s also a firm that places a high value on professionalism and continuing legal education, which I really appreciate. Our internal training department, DorseyU, has several full-time employees who coordinate multiple educational programs for our lawyers each week — it’s already been a great resource for me.

In thinking about the “re-launch” of this blog, I decided to rename it from Business Law Insight to Business Law Strategy. The purpose of this blog, as always, is to facilitate an understanding of legal principles in order to help companies achieve their business strategies. While this blog strives to provide insights, of course, the real emphasis is on strategy. I hope you’ll find that the posts meet that goal.

I am also happy to announce that Dorsey became a new member of the Software and Information Industry Association, and I am in the process of forming a Publishing, Education and Training Sector Group within Dorsey. Among other things, I anticipate that this Sector Group will engage in the re-launch of the Surveys of Education Venture Capital & Private Equity that I’ve conducted on several occasions since 1998. We also intend to develop various webinars, presentation and seminars on legal topics of interest and importance to companies in this sector.

Please feel free to comment on any of the posts on this blog, and/or to reach out to me either through the blog or directly to fromm.jeff@dorsey.com.

All the best for 2009.