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Recent news of importance to you and your practice.

In last month's newsletter, we began discussion of claims-made-and-reported medical malpractice insurance policies and of how most states are strict in requiring insureds to notify their insurers of claims within their policies' designated reporting periods. However, a recent Maryland case shows that state law sometimes may trump a policy's reporting requirements.

Medical malpractice liability insurers and self-insured entities that ignore the new Medicare reporting requirements do so at their peril. Here's why.

Two new developments promise to affect medical-malpractice litigation profoundly.

When women's initiatives work well, the benefits inure not only to individual women, but to their firms and to the profession more broadly. What's good for female attorneys is good for their male counterparts and good for business.

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By setting clear guidelines and limiting lawyers' obligations, a law firm's marketing staff will make it more likely that their lawyers will be successful new business generators.

Generational differences need to be embraced and bridged to convey a consistent brand of business development, service delivery and client transitioning from generation to generation.