"The court was sending a message: Don't rely on the courts to clean up the tax code, '" says Lipton, who chairs the American Bar Association's tax section.
Charles Munn, the ceo of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland, says that Scottish mutual funds in particular were successful in America because they didn't rely on local agents for "cattle counting, " instead sending their own auditors.
Freelancers used to rely on exchanging business cards at networking events, putting up flyers at local shops and sending out postcards to nearby businesses.