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Law Firm Leadership: Leadership Isn't Management

Mark Beese & Suzanne C. Lowe

Our marketplace is changing at a breakneck pace and on many fronts. Our firms are changing as well, from how we charge clients to how we compensate attorneys. A new kind of approach is required for effective management and leadership.

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The Access to Repair Parts Act

Jason Nardiello & James W. Gould

If the Access to Repair Parts Act is signed into law, it appears that anyone who manufactures or sells replacement parts that are substantially similar or even identical to designs protected by a registered design patent could do so with little risk of infringing the patent.

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The Virtual Museum

Stanley Jaskiewicz

In the movie <i>Field of Dreams</i>, a mysterious voice assures the protagonist, a down-on-his-luck city-boy-turned-farmer named Ray played by Kevin Costner, that "if you build it, they will come." Today, however, in an age of instant, digital entertainment, curators of museums and historical sites must also wonder if anyone "will come" to their static displays to visit and donate ' and what will happen if they don't.

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The Finer Points of Using LinkedIn

Nancy Roberts Linder

All about creating a profile that works.

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Smart Phones Require 'Smart' Employers

Kathryn Kraft

e-Commerce employers must be especially "smart" about employee smart-phone use and the problems it can bring if acceptable use isn't spelled out. Unfortunately, few employers fully consider the various issues these high-tech gadgets pose, such as overtime compensation dangers, security risks and offensive blunders in etiquette.

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Combination Drug Patents in the Post-KSR World

Yong Chen & Sandra Lee

In this article, we survey post-<i>KSR</i> decisions in an effort to assess what impact, if any, <i>KSR</i> may have had on the patentability/validity of combination drug therapies.

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Recommendation Marketing Through Evolving Social Media Channels

Alan L. Friel

In one of its more insidious forms, recommendation marketing can involve a marketer paying Internet users to post disingenuous positive product reviews at online retailers' sites, also called astroturfing, in which advertisers or their agents pretend to be unaffiliated consumers, and spread misleading or false information to advance the advertiser's objectives.

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

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