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Debra Hodgson
Previous installments of this article discussed errors and omissions insurance coverage and clearance guidelines for vetting dramatic works. This final segment will wrap up the clearance guidelines discussion, including music and film clips.
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Mark L. Silow
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued proposed and temporary regulations specifying the time and manner for electing to treat the sale or exchange of "self-created" musical compositions or copyrights as the sale or the exchange of a capital asset resulting in a potential capital gain.
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Evan A. Jenness
Harsh sentences can be generated by a rote application of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines in mortgage fraud cases. Challenging the scope of "relevant conduct" should be defense counsel's first line of attack in many cases, because victims' losses may not have resulted from a convicted client's activities or the reasonably foreseeable acts of others in furtherance of jointly undertaken criminal activity under ' 1B1.3.
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Debra Sydnor
Providing physicians with up-to-date, accurate information about the medicines they prescribe clearly improves patient care and advances health care in general. Nonetheless, the public health need for informed and educated HCPs may, at times, create tension with the pharmaceutical industry's perceived drive for profits.
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Joel A. Rose
When a firm finds itself in the midst of a management crisis, the place to begin to search for the source of the problem is at the top of the management hierarchy. This may not be a popular notion or an easy task. The purpose is not to find fault. The point is that an organization does not simply evolve. It must be built in an orderly manner. The values that are important to a firm have to be defined and centrally organized. The responsibility for these goals must be keyed to an organizational factor, whether this is a committee or an individual.
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Lee Rosenberg
The issue of legislative action (or inaction as the case may be) in matrimonial matters is always of interest. At present, there are many issues that call for such action and others that are still kicking hopelessly around in this election year. Two such issues come to mind just now, one finally resolved, the other apparently destined to "wait 'till next year.
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Timothy M. Tippins
This article explores the question of whether diagnostic labels have a legitimate place in the custody evaluation context and related evidentiary considerations of reliability, validity, relevance, and prejudice.
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Stuart Gold
BAPCPA made significant changes in the treatment of alimony, child support and other obligations arising out of the dissolution of the marital relationship. This article refers to these obligations collectively as "family law obligations." Although many articles appeared in 2005 regarding the changes made by BAPCPA, it is worth revisiting these changes as they apply to the family law practitioner because the current economic downturn will lead to many more consumer bankruptcy filings in the remainder of 2008 and in 2009.
