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Equipment Investment Expected to Stabilize or Improve in Second Half of 2012

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation has released the quarterly update to its 2012 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook.

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Media & Communications: Why Law Firm Marketers Don't Like PR Firms

Jamie Diaferia & Nicholas Gaffney

It's an open secret among marketers that PR agencies often engender feelings ranging from dislike to outright disdain. Among law firms especially, the criticisms are consistent. Here are some solutions.

How to Manage the Expanding Use of Social Media Image

How to Manage the Expanding Use of Social Media

Lewis J. Cohn & Mollie S. Bisesi

This article guides lawyers in the equipment leasing industry through some of the prevailing legal implications of using social media.

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Integrated Online Marketing

Lori Chavez

There's more to online marketing than simply getting a website for your law firm or getting your business listed on Google Places. The biggest trend for 2012 is the use of integrated marketing solutions

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Voice of the Client: Are You Listening?

Silvia Coulter

Clients have been telling lawyers for years how to make the relationships work; what we are looking for and how to win business. Are they listening? Most of us don't think so." Here's what to do.

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Key Lessee and Lessor Decisions Made in the Lease Project

William Bosco

Although FASB and IASB Boards finally decided all leases are not alike, they made a split decision as to how to classify them based on type of asset leased.

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The New York Convention for the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards

James R. Cairns

Cross-border equipment lessors and their financiers often prefer binding arbitration clauses in their lease agreements on the assumption that, under the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, an arbitral award granted, for example, in the United States would be simple and quick to enforce in the foreign jurisdiction of the lessee. This, however, is not necessarily the case.

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Court Orders Target Internet Companies In Trademark Disputes

Sheri Qualters

A proposed law to combat digital piracy stalled last year in the face of widespread public opposition, but district courts are embracing its controversial remedies against Internet companies that do business with alleged infringers in trademark cases.

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Finding the Needle in the Social Media Haystack

Mark Hinkle

With the explosion of social media one challenge is that much of the information posted in such venues is dross. But there are also the occasional invaluable kernels ' needles in the cyber haystack, as it were ' that provide opportunities for expanding your portfolio of work with existing or new clients.

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Announcing the Eighth Annual MLF 50

Kimberly Alford Rice

Everything you need to know to enter this year's competition!

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