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Applying Technology To the Business of Health Care

Jonathan Bick

Advocates for online health services have long argued that the health care-services and health care-products industries could significantly enhance its ability to deliver quality products and services to consumers by using e-commerce to improve access to, and the timeliness and accuracy of, information, delivery and purchasing pertaining to the health care-sector supply chain.

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Asking Prospective Employees for Social Media Login Data

Steven W. Suflas & Mary Cate Gordon

A recent trend in the human resources community is to ask prospective employees for usernames and passwords to social media sites to allow the hiring employer access to otherwise private information about an employment candidate's "online identity." e-Commerce companies, even though they are based on and operate through online activities, sometimes through social media, should carefully consider what principals and hiring parties in the firms may view as a natural inclination to examine an applicant's or an employee's social media postings and persona by demanding access to the sites.

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Copy<i>wrongs</i> for Start-up Firms

Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

Much virtual ink has been spilled about the complexities of applying traditional copyright law to e-commerce (and the Internet, generally). The intersection of law developed for the written word on paper, and tangible objects, and digital distribution of their modern equivalents, remains a work in progress, to say the least.

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Digital Copiers Don't Forget

L. Elise Dieterich

Risk mitigation requires a good understanding of where the vulnerabilities are, and one that many companies have missed is the sensitive data that likely reside in the hard drive memories of printers, copiers, and fax machines.

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Lease Accounting Project Update

Bill Bosco

After the February FASB/IASB Lease Accounting Project meetings,the Boards added a fourth approach that the ELFA has been recommending from the start of the Lease Project.

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Practice Pointers for Working with Expert Witnesses in Bankruptcy Court

Christopher R. Harris & H. Gregory Baker

This article provides some examples of how expert witnesses are used in bankruptcy court, and an overview of some issues that practitioners should be mindful of when working with experts in bankruptcy court.

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Independent Contractor Classification

Rosanna Sattler, Nancy Puleo & James E. Kruzer

The classification of independent contractors is garnering increased attention at both state and federal agencies and courts. This article outlines some general guidelines based on recent state and federal court decisions.

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Lehman Brothers' ADR Procedures for Resolving Its Derivative Contracts in Bankruptcy

Andrew J. Olejnik

Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy case was the largest and most complex Chapter 11 case in history. Here's an inside look.

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Retirement Assets for Equitable Distribution

Carl M. Palatnik

The conclusion of a discussion, begun last month, about a hypothetical divorcing couple. The husband would like to keep all of his retirement savings, 150% of the value of the couple's home, which the wife would like to keep as her own.

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Retaining Local Counsel When Dividing Retirement Assets

Laurence J. Cutler & Robert A. Epstein

Dividing retirement assets in equitable distribution is well known among matrimonial practitioners as one of the most confounding, and potentially complex, areas of our practice. Do you need outside counsel?

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