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The Benefits of Utilizing a Written Joint Defense Agreement Properly Tailored to Limit Future Conflicts Image

The Benefits of Utilizing a Written Joint Defense Agreement Properly Tailored to Limit Future Conflicts

Robert J. Anello & Richard F. Albert

A recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida illustrates a benefit of utilizing a written joint defense agreement properly tailored to limit future conflicts, rather than relying on the oral agreements that are common among many practitioners.

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Start 2024 By Embracing the Synergy Between Retirements and Succession Planning

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Attorneys retiring and succession planning are critical issues are often overlooked at the management level of law firms. A key question arises: What should come first, retirement or succession planning? Although they go hand in hand, many firms avoid addressing both.

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The Importance of Cyber Vigilance: Control Liability and Litigation Exposure

Brandon Hollinder

This article covers cyber trends and tips for organizations to explore in order to be better equipped to anticipate and respond to cyber incidents before a devastating breach occurs. The outcome? Diminished chance of class action activity, compliance violations, lost business, and mounting costs.

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Litigation Finance Offers Significant Benefits for Restructuring Matters

Jeffery Lula

In today's volatile economic climate, companies need to be more creative to find ways to mitigate risk. Litigation finance is one of those out-of-the-box solutions that can provide benefits.

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Experience Management: Selecting Best of Breed Solutions for Better Business Outcomes Image

Experience Management: Selecting Best of Breed Solutions for Better Business Outcomes

Jason Noble

Experience management is vital not only in terms of raw time savings and cost efficiencies but is pivotal in the firm's ability to win new business.

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Leveraging Data and Deal Terms to Meet the Demands of the DOJ's New M&A Safe Harbor Image

Leveraging Data and Deal Terms to Meet the Demands of the DOJ's New M&A Safe Harbor

Patrick T. Campbell, Jonathan B. New, James A. Sherer, & Lauren E. Sternbach

This article describes the DOJ's new M&A safe harbor policy and also provides practical insights on how companies engaged in M&A can meet the DOJ's expectations.

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Ninth Circuit Focuses On Extrinsic Test In Ruling On Choreography Copyright Image

Ninth Circuit Focuses On Extrinsic Test In Ruling On Choreography Copyright

Stan Soocher

Reversing and remanding, the Ninth Circuit emphasized: "The district court's approach of reducing choreography to 'poses' is fundamentally at odds with the way we analyze copyright claims for other art forms, like musical compositions."

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Second Circuit Likely to Deliver Big Win for Commercial Shopping Center Lessor

Michael L. Cook

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, on remand from the Supreme Court, further remanded to the district court the key issue of whether the Chapter 11 debtor gave "adequate assurance of future performance of" a commercial real property shopping center lease "as required by the Bankruptcy Code after the debtor's assignment of its lease.

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When Is A Real Estate Instrument Filing Fee An Unauthorized Tax? Image

When Is A Real Estate Instrument Filing Fee An Unauthorized Tax?

Cameron Macdonald

Litigation pending in the Suffolk County Supreme Court is challenging fees charged for tax map verifications on real estate instruments filed with the county clerk as unauthorized taxes.

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Director Vidal's Impact On the PTAB: Big Changes and More On the Way

Jennifer Bush

Perhaps the largest impact that Director Vidal has had upon the PTAB is has been via Director Reviews. The U.S. Supreme Court mandated Director Reviews to correct procedural defects in the way that administrative patent judges are appointed to the PTAB.

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