Commercial Law

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The authors continue herein their discussion of the situations in which New York courts have found it desirable to award one parent or the other decision-making authority over certain types of child-rearing issues. These are the so-called "zones of decision-making."

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This month, the authors continue their discussion with an anlysis of attacks on the physician's decision to prescribe off-label.

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Physicians who allow medical sales reps into operating rooms may be caught in the crossfire of litigation and liability that can result from sales rep presence and activities.

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There are many discussions going on about the use of social media among attorneys. Surely there are folks who don't understand the value of these mediums, mostly because of inexperience in using them. "Why should I go on Twitter and tell someone what I'm doing? Who is going to care?" they ask. To those people, I would suggest turning that question around: "When I have just heard a piece of important and timely information that would benefit some of my colleagues, how can I tell them all at once ' easily and quickly?" Now that's the question to be asking.

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Service providers need incentives to continue providing top-notch service.That is what most customers believe. Whether a customer engages a vendor for cloud computing, software offered as a service ("SaaS"), outsourcing, or simply the maintenance aspect of a traditional software licensing agreement, if an element of the deal is for the vendor to provide ongoing services, the customer will always seek a financial lever to provide the vendor with an incentive to perform.

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As family law practitioners, we need to achieve a basic understanding of the tax code and the relevant provisions that may affect our clients.

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Copyright lawyers are wondering how the Mark Twain Foundation is claiming a copyright on the first volume of Mark Twain's newly released autobiography despite its publication a century after the author's death, far outside the normal protection window for an unpublished work.

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This article covers some of the issues that should be considered if clients wish to examine the possibility of a Medicaid divorce.