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Protecting Interests if Another Company Files for Bankruptcy Protection

Schuyler M. Moore

In light of the current economic tsunami, which is certain to throw a few entertainment companies into bankruptcy, this article provides a basic overview of the common issues that arise in connection with such bankruptcies. The most important reason to understand bankruptcy is to protect oneself from the draconian results that can result from a bankruptcy of the other party to a transaction.

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Leadership Development Programs

Michele Bendekovic & Diane Costigan

Leadership programs can range from a collection of specific training programs to a more comprehensive approach, including an organized curriculum, senior advisers, individual coaching, development plans and formal feedback. If your firm is interested in starting a comprehensive program, here are some factors to consider.

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Technology in Marketing: Managing and Monitoring Your Law Firm's Reputation Online

Joshua Fruchter

While the issue of online reputation is relevant to both law firms and individual attorneys, in this article we focus on tips and strategies for monitoring, managing, and maximizing a law firm's online reputation.

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Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

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

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Towering IP Resources in a Flat World

John H. Hornickel

If you have read, or even heard about, Thomas Friedman's <i>The World Is Flat</i> or Fareed Zakaria's <i>The Post-American World</i>, you will recognize a theme in common with what patent attorneys do every day. We write for one-fifth of a century later. Our words, building fences around ideas, are likely expressions of intellectual property grants by governments still in place 20 years hence.

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Law Firm Intelligence: Researching the Economy

Shannon Sankstone

This is the first in a series of articles designed to provide researchers and marketers with tools to gain a degree of clarity and insight into how the economy will affect their firms.

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Client Speak: A Three-Way Street

Allan Colman

Lawyers who find ways to provide clients with incentives to hire the firm ought to be rewarded accordingly. The principle seems sound enough but, as usual, the devil is in the proverbial details.

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Attacking the Customer

Patrick Fay & Aaron Marx

To avoid declaratory judgment actions, patent holders may opt to sue or threaten the purchasers of an allegedly infringing product, without threatening suit against the manufacturer. In effect, the patent holder coerces the manufacturing company to give up the right to manufacture or distribute the accused product by scaring off its customers.

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Media & Communications Corner: A Profile of Terri Mottershead, Director of Professional Development, DLA Piper

Kim Proxmire

Since joining DLA Piper five months ago, Terri Mottershead has worked to significantly expand the firm's professional development program to serve as a resource not only to the firm's attorneys, but also to its clients.

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The Threat of Evidence Destruction

James W. Soong & Y.T. Chen

<i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</i><p>In high-technology disputes, a patentee must secure a thorough understanding of often complex and subtle technologies in accused devices to prove patent infringement. Despite a patentee's best efforts to obtain proof of infringement, very often the most convincing evidence of patent infringement ' for example, proprietary design documents of the accused device ' lies within the possession of the alleged infringer itself.

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