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Techniques That Up Your Team Management Skills In 2023

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Being a good team leader is not easy. It is your responsibility to manage everything about the people and the positions you oversee. Good team leaders create an environment in which attorneys and staff work hard, are loyal, and add to profitability. Setting expectations and goals is an essential step in becoming an effective team leader.

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Maryland Appellate Court: COVID-19 Restrictions Not Excuse for Tenants' Failure to Pay Rent Image

Maryland Appellate Court: COVID-19 Restrictions Not Excuse for Tenants' Failure to Pay Rent

Allison Dunn

Looking primarily to states like Connecticut for guidance, the Appellate Court of Maryland concluded that economic challenges stemming from COVID-19 executive orders themselves are not sufficient to establish the affirmative defenses of frustration of purpose and legal impossibility for failure to pay rent.

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Seven Commercial Real Estate Investment Strategies for 2023

Joseph J. Ori

With the year starting out amid uncertainty and no small amount of pessimism, there are certain strategies that promise to play well amid the environment. Read on to find out what will work in 2023.

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SEC Tightens Rules on Scheduling Trades In Advance

Maria Dinzeo

General counsel may find themselves pulled into difficult conversations with top executives as the Securities and Exchange Commission tightens its rules on company insiders looking to dump their stock.

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Howard Shire & Stephanie Remy

Patent Infringement and Trade Dress In the Ninth Circuit

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Stan Soocher

Breach-of-Contract Claim Can Continue Over Refusal to Exercise Option to Retain Anti-Vaccination Actress California Court Rules on Intersection Between Anti-SLAPP Law and Movie Trailer

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Live Webinar: The Crypto Landscape Post-FTX

IPS Staff

"The Crypto Landscape Post-FTX," Feb. 15 at 4 p.m. ET, NY Cyber CLE credits available.

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Duties of and Risks to Directors and Officers of Insolvent Enterprises

Marshall S. Huebner & Amber Leary

Traditionally, the bankruptcy risk for D&Os has been fairly low. Several recent developments have, however, shifted the landscape somewhat and altered the risk profile.

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Layoffs, Expenses and Return-to-Office Policies Top Worries of Law Firm Leaders In 2023

Andrew Maloney & Patrick Smith

While economic troubles and fears of a recession are top concerns for law firm leaders now, some shifts within the legal industry are also triggering alarm bells. Interviews with more than a dozen law firm leaders identified a growing list of challenges that law firm leaders are grappling with now,

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Online Extra: In 'Landmark' Win for Talc Plaintiffs, Third Circuit Dismisses Johnson & Johnson Unit's Bankruptcy

Amanda Bronstad

On Jan. 30, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a bankruptcy judge's decision, concluding that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management was not in financial distress at the time it filed its Chapter 11 case in 2021.

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