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Industry 'Custom and Practice' Not Enough to Create Binding Film Distribution Agreement

Stan Soocher

Film financing and film production can be long, slow processes. But deals for distribution rights may be struck up fast and furious, as seen from distribution interest in buzz movies at film festivals. This happened with Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, a film about a young African-American mother in Harlem that won both the grand jury prize and audience award in drama at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. Hurried negotiations for the film distribution rights to Push has led to multi-suit litigation ' and a recent Manhattan federal district court ruling that may help define when there's a binding distribution deal.

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Media & Communications Corner: Every Law Firm Should Be a Media Company

Nicholas Gaffney

It's time to take a leap and leave behind your firm's entrenched identity as a legal services provider: to succeed, you must start thinking of your firm as a media company.

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Elizabeth Anne 'Betiayn' Tursi

At long last, marketing and communications can take center stage and become the key indicator by which law firms can measure their success ratio.

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Accepting a 2(f) Registration

Stephen W. Feingold

There are many ways that accepting a 2(f) notation can come back and haunt you once litigation has commenced.

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