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Interlocutory Injunctions in the Franchise Context

Jennifer Dolman & Aislinn Reid

When pending a trial wherein a franchisor seeks to enjoin a franchisee from breaching a restrictive covenant or a franchisee seeks to enjoin a franchisor from terminating their relationship, Canadian courts have generally applied the following three-part test. This article explains.

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Strategies for Responding to the Financially Distressed Auto Dealership

John R. Skelton

Because the financial distress is network-wide, how manufacturers respond to the financially distressed dealership is more important than ever. For some dealerships, the appropriate strategy may be creative cooperation forbearance agreements, operating stipulations, and workouts ' not adversarial enforcement.

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Some Highlights of the Recently Enacted Stimulus Bill

Richard H. Stieglitz & Tamir Dardashtian

On Feb. 17, 2009, the newly elected President Obama signed into law the colossal $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "Act"). This 1,000-plus-page piece of legislation contains many important tax-breaks and enhancements that can benefit law firms and their clients, as well as individual attorneys and staff members and their families. This article addresses several of these key tax provisions included in the new act that may be advantageous.

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Inventory Management

Bo Yancey

Clients withholding payments directly impacts partners' bottom lines. As such, law firms are always focused on billing and collecting as much as they can in the last quarter of the year. The current crisis has trumped even the most diligent efforts of law firms to bring in cash, and it illustrates the importance of having sound inventory management practices that are followed throughout the year.

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2008 Law Firm Compensation Program Survey Results

Jim Cotterman

Incisive Legal Intelligence Surveys (formerly Altman Weil Publications') recently released its sixth look at the methods and philosophies of compensation in private law firms: The Survey of Compensation Programs in Law Firms. Data were collected during the last quarter of 2008. This article provides commentary on highlights from the partner compensation portion of the study.

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Unitary Business Taxation Principles

Anthony Michael Sabino

For at least the last two decades, law firms have continually expanded their operations across state lines (and national boundaries as well). Thus, today's law firms have to confront the intriguing and difficult questions of the power of the several states to tax operations that extend across state lines.

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Real Property Law

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Development

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A case of interest.

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Cooperatives & Condominiums

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Analysis of the latest cases.

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