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The Need for Independent Analysis On Portfolio Risks

Rick Daubenspeck

With the current economic condition being the way it is, and the risk assumed by banks and lessors being scrutinized more and more, the once shunned idea of turning to an outside valuation provider for an assessment of potential exposure is now becoming more prevalent.

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Technology in Marketing: Developing a Team-Authored Blog

Joshua Fruchter

Publishing a blog can be time-consuming for an individual attorney when done right. One solution: Publish a blog in collaboration with other attorneys in the same practice area.

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Valuable Lessons from This Great Recession

Kimberly Alford Rice

Despite posting profits in 2009, some firms still grapple with how to engender more rainmakers from their attorney pool to spread the business generation responsibility more evenly.

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The Place to Network: The Art and Practice of Blogging

Timothy B. Corcoran

Blogs have proven to be an effective tactic to establish subject matter expertise, and the Internet search engines can help reach a target audience on a scale that other networking tactics, and traditional publishing venues, may not.

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10 Questions for Kim Eisler

Nicholas Gaffney

Nick Gaffney, a partner at Infinite Public Relations in San Francisco, recently had an exclusive interview with Mr. Kim Eisler, author of "Masters of the Game: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm."

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Announcing The Sixth Annual MLF 50

Elizabeth Anne 'Betiayn' Tursi

Criteria for selection in this highly coveted listing.

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Employer's Review of Text Messages on Company Pager Reasonable

Sarah A. Kelly

In a closely watched case and in a nearly unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that the City of Ontario, CA, Police Department did not violate the Fourth Amendment privacy rights of its employee when it audited text messages he had sent and received on a department-issued paging device.

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DOL: Same-Sex Partners May Qualify For FMLA Leave

Brian D. Pedrow

In an Opinion Letter issued on June 22, 2010, the U.S. Dept. of Labor (DOL) clarified who may be a parent under the Family and Medical Leave Act, including same-sex domestic partners who stand <i>in loco parentis</i> to a child.

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Employers Beware

Rick Bergstrom & Mark Temple

Employee mobility, coupled with the exceeding ease with which confidential and proprietary trade secret information can be stored and transported, creates the perfect platform for trade secret theft. And it's not just a hypothetical problem.

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Supreme Court Blockbuster Decision

David Radelet, Mark S. Wilkinson & Amy Moor Gaylord

On June 24, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in <i>New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB</i>, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board (does not have the authority to issue decisions without at least three members currently sitting on the Board. The decision invalidates in one fell swoop some 600 decisions that had been issued by the Board during a recent 27-month period in which the Board had only two members.

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