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There are no right or wrong answers as to exactly when an attorney should be in the office, or how many hours are enough (or too much). So what should you do?

If you fail to keep in touch with your prospects on a regular basis, your business development efforts will likely fall short of your hoped-for results.

The intent of this column is to provide a framework for identifying the relative benefits of hosting an event. How can we turn an event into a means for generating revenue?

How you say something is as important as what you say. If content is king, then delivery is its scepter, crown and cape.

There's a fairly robust legal community developing on Google+. Here's what you need to know.

In CyberSource v. Retail Decisions, a panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's summary judgment ruling that the asserted patent claims were invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101, and held that purely mental processes are unpatentable abstract ideas. The court decided that merely limiting an unpatentable mental process to a computer-readable medium for execution on a processor, in a so-called Beauregard claim, did not satisfy § 101.

The America Invents Act, passed by Congress on Sept. 9, 2011, and signed into law on Sept. 16, 2011, imposes sweeping changes to U.S. patent law. This article focuses on how the new patent laws will require patent practitioners to change the way they practice and advise their clients.

Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.