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Pre-Separation Dissipation and the Marital Estate

Mark Momjian

Over a generation ago, few contested divorce actions involved claims of economic misconduct. As the current recession deepens, these claims are not only on the rise, but they appear to be the rule in many cases.

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Best Practices in Client Relationship Skills

Sharon Meit Abrahams

There are key activities that lawyers can engage in to promote the health of existing client interactions. All of these activities can be categorized into one of three stages: 1) establishing the relationship; 2) building the relationship; and 3) proliferating the relationship.

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ABA Social Network Fails to Connect

Robert J. Ambrogi

The American Bar Association has jumped on the social networking bandwagon with a site of its own, LegallyMinded. Here is the author's review of the site.

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Practice Building Skills: Marketing Kryptonite That Will Overcome Attorney Objections

Larry Bodine

According to the author: Yes, you can win an argument with an attorney and get your marketing initiative approved, if you present the right data to get your point across.

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Client Speak: Is the Burden of AFA Here to Stay?

Donald E. Aronson

The recent dramatic downturn has created something relatively unknown to law firms: the "insistent buyers' market" (or "ibm"), wherein all the pent-up frustrations of the past have suddenly found a voice and now have to be confronted and no longer ignored.

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Media & Communications Corner: Don't Send That Release (over the Wire)

Nicholas Gaffney

Law firms and other businesses devote a huge amount time, effort and money to creating and promoting "news" via press releases. But are they worth the time and money?

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Career Journal: Reinventing the Interview

Michael DeCosta

Despite their interviewing success historically, candidates for legal marketing positions are more likely to be facing a higher level of scrutiny on multiple fronts that could easily trip up an otherwise strong interviewer's performance.

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For Women in Law, 'Business Development Is Key'

Karen Sloan

A recent survey of women in law firms found that ' unsurprisingly ' women are concentrated at the lower levels of law firms. That wasn't news to Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi, who three years ago helped to found the Women In Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), a lecture series that focuses on helping women become firm leaders.

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Two Federal Courts Reject Medical Monitoring Class Actions

Gregg Nunziata

Recently, two federal courts rejected certification in three putative "medical monitoring" class actions that were brought against E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company in West Virginia and New Jersey. These are significant rulings in the still developing field of "medical monitoring," and indicate the limits of class certification based on medical monitoring theories of recovery

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