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A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
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Tips for Quickly and Effectively Responding to and Handling a Data Breach
Data breaches have become a common occurrence, and any organization, regardless of location, size and industry, can be attacked. This article summarizes key steps and recommendations for responding to and handling a data breach quickly and effectively.
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Florida's New Data Privacy Bill Is an Outlier, Going Both Broad and Narrow
The Florida law, which will go into effect on July 1, 2024, positions itself as an outlier among other state data privacy regulations.
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Legal Tech: TAR As a Reincarnation of Human Review
This article seeks to provide clarity and context on the different types of AI available in the legal industry today and how the new GPT technology fits into that landscape. More importantly, it will illustrate the potential impact of the next generation of AI on litigation and legal practice as a whole.
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Should There Be A Title Theft Statute?
Recent years have seen numerous reports of what has colloquially been called "property theft" or "deed theft." To fight deed theft in New York, the state Attorney General has championed a statute making "Property Theft" a crime.
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Keeping Tabs On Antitrust Actions In Entertainment Industry Sectors
The growth in size of companies dominating sectors of the entertainment industry has been subject to antitrust challenges with mixed results. What are some notable recent developments in this area?
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The Business Benefits of Leasing When Combatting the Increasing Costs of Operating a Firm
There's a wide range of business benefits to leasing that help firms better manage current market challenges beyond cash management — so we asked our law firm clients what they saw as the most compelling business benefits of leasing in today's challenging economy.
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How Law Firms Can Utilize Artificial Intelligence for Marketing
Artificial Intelligence will revolutionize law firm marketing forever. Law firms are now (or should be) leveraging the potential of AI in order to enhance their marketing efforts. By harnessing the capabilities of AI, law firms are able to expand their marketing strategies, boost efficiency, accuracy, and overall client engagement.
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Supreme Court's 'Bad Spaniels' Decision Didn't Overturn Rogers, But …
In a win for trademark holders, the U.S. Supreme Court offered a narrow ruling in the dispute involving "dog toys and whiskey."
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Converting Debt to Equity: An Alternative to Modification or Extension of Loans
Historically, lenders have been unwilling to go into business with their borrowers, preferring to observe a rigid separation between debtor and creditor. However, if an office property can be repositioned for another use, there is a path between extending the term of a loan and hoping for the best, and taking the property back and realizing a catastrophic loss.
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