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Partners in Preservation

David Cohen & Brad Harris

Some outside counsel historically have felt that their clients' duty to preserve evidence rests primarily with those clients. The all-too-common practice was to fire off a memo to the client with some general guidance and then check it off the "to do" list. It was left up to the client to make sure proper steps were taken from there. If that was ever a safe or defensible process, those days are long gone.

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Professional vs. Ordinary Negligence in the Health Care Setting

Michael C. Ksiazek

The precise line of where ordinary negligence ends and professional negligence begins has remained rather murky. Here's why this makes a difference.

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Lease Accounting Project Update

Bill Bosco

Subsequent to publication of last month's lease accounting update article, the FASB/IASB Boards conducted a meeting on May 19, 2011 at which they unexpectedly reversed some of their tentative decisions favorable to the industry.

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The Role of Informed Consent in Defensive Medicine

John Ratkowitz & Robert Sanfilippo

Studies that have attempted to quantify the costs of defensive medicine by looking at the impact that tort reform has had on health care savings have obtained inconsistent results.

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Judgment Creditors Come One, Come All to NY

Jennifer F. Beltrami

Recent case law has made New York an extremely beneficial place for a creditor seeking to enforce a judgment against a debtor's foreign assets.

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Litigation

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

A look at recent key cases.

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Test Item Transparency

David A. Martindale & James R. Flens

The authors hypothesize that if attorneys, judges, and psychologists were asked to rate the usefulness of data from psychological tests administered in the context of family law matters, attorneys and judges would assign higher ratings than would psychologists.

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Love Affairs and Long-Arm Statutes

William R. Wright

The tentacles from the seven states recognizing the tort of alienation of affection continue their broad reach throughout the 50 states.

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Retiring in a Down Economy

Laurence J. Cutler & Robert A. Epstein

Each case addressing the issue of retirement and its impact on support is highly fact-sensitive. The down economy's impact on such a situation serves to add an intriguing, yet extremely critical, wrinkle to the equation.

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Preparing for Things That Go Bump in the Night

Allan Colman

When you're fighting for new client engagements, recognize that you are participating in a form of sophisticated combat. Draw on your training and strengths and you'll be prepared to engage and win new business.

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