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Media & Communications Corner: 21 Top Web Tools Image

Media & Communications Corner: 21 Top Web Tools

Nicholas Gaffney

Read on for the 21 Web tools that are not only useful and cutting-edge, but easy to use.

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Sugarland Suit Offers Look at Dynamics of Litigating Intra-Band Disputes Image

Sugarland Suit Offers Look at Dynamics of Litigating Intra-Band Disputes

R. Robin McDonald

Fresh off their November 2010 win for Vocal Duo of the Year at the Country Music Awards in Nashville, Sugarland faced a far different contest in a federal courtroom in Atlanta, GA, in a fight stemming from a 2005 split with the band's founder and former member, Kristen Hall. The trial, if held following more than two years of litigation, could easily have been billed as the anatomy of a band breakup. Though fact-specific to Sugarland, Hall's suit raises issues that are relevant to all-too-common litigations over intra-band disputes.

The Business of Branding: What Legal Marketers Can Learn from Consumer Branding Image

The Business of Branding: What Legal Marketers Can Learn from Consumer Branding

Sean Leenaerts

There are a number of things that we as marketers could learn from the consumer side as we prepare our marketing plans for the coming year.

Spotlight on Innovation Image

Spotlight on Innovation

Elizabeth Anne 'Betiayn' Tursi

A look at a new business development system.

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Farewell to MLF

Elizabeth Anne 'Betiayn' Tursi

A note to readers from the outgoing Editor-in-Chief.

Movers & Shakers Image

Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

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

How Your Company Can Get the Benefits of an Arbitration Clause Image

How Your Company Can Get the Benefits of an Arbitration Clause

Susan Guerette

Arbitrating employment disputes can provide for more efficient and more economical resolutions. Yet, in-house attorneys often question whether to include arbitration clauses in their employment agreements.

Local Yacht Club Sails Free of Harassment Claim Image

Local Yacht Club Sails Free of Harassment Claim

Kevin McCormick

A recent decision from the Federal District Court in Maryland highlights the need for an employee to meet filing time requirements or face dismissal of the claims.

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Mediate Your Clients' Employment Claims Image

Mediate Your Clients' Employment Claims

Steven Adler

While growing in popularity, mediation still remains underutilized in employment disputes. From the employee's perspective, mediation should be a "no-brainer."

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Tracking Hours in a Virtual World Image

Tracking Hours in a Virtual World

Patricia Anderson Pryor

Privacy issues, data security risks and document-retention nightmares are just some of the issues created when technology falls into an employee's hands.

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