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Dodd-Frank: What About Leasing?

Paul Bent

This second installment of a two-part series discusses in detail those provisions of Dodd-Frank, among many others, which may have the most immediate and greatest impact on U.S. equipment leasing and finance companies.

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Using Character Integrity Guidelines to Protect Franchise Characters

Mark Stankevich

If you are the owner of a property that is being licensed into a potential motion picture franchise, how do you contractually protect the rights to your existing character or property so that the movies and related items being created do not damage your preexisting property? This article examines the approaches customarily utilized.

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Movers & Shakers

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Who's doing what; who's going where.

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Understanding the Financial Aspects of Impending Retirement

Ed Poll

There are significant penalties in store for any lawyer who does not make a financial plan for succession into retirement.

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Pay Proportional to Performance

James D. Cotterman

Pay Proportional to Performance is an important guiding principle underlying good compensation decisions. Individual firms will select different compensable criteria and weigh them according to their specific views. Good judgment will bring the principle alive.

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A Firm's Future Depends on Selection of Partners to Serve As Managers

Joel A. Rose

This article describes some approaches for selecting partners to manage administrative and substantive areas of a law firm's practice practice.

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IP News

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg & Joseph Mercadante

Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.

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The Domestic Industry Requirement at the ITC

Dervis Magistre

The domestic industry requirement at the International Trade Commission has two prongs, one economic and the other technical. Two recent decisions of the ITC examine the economic prong in different factual contexts.

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