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By profiling current clients and looking back over the years of data accumulated, law firms have an abundance of experience to determine what works and what does not when it comes to business development. The key is to set up a systemized approach to extract that data.

Questions over the role of a New Jersey matrimonial firm in an international child abduction are at the heart of an unusual suit on trial in Bergen County, NJ.

Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.

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Businesses of all sizes will find themselves having difficult discussions with their lenders regarding loans in default or which will be maturing and for which the real estate and other collateral provide questionable value as security. This article provides "rules" that should help.

Recently, Louisiana enacted legislation to regulate automatic renewal clauses in contracts to provide that any contract that automatically renews if the consumer fails to cancel it must disclose the automatic renewal clause clearly and conspicuously and include clear and conspicuous language describing how to cancel the contract.

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Highlights of the latest equipment leasing law.

Just because a document is labeled a lease may not make it so under commercial law. One of the more heavily contested issues under the Uniform Commercial Code is whether an agreement transferring use and possession of personal property from one party to another is actually a lease as opposed to a sale subject to a security agreement.

In <i>Paul Green School of Rock v. Smith</i>, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided a franchise-related case on Aug. 2 that addressed judicial review of arbitration awards.