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Professional Development: A Guide to Connecting with Potential Clients

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Following are a few tips that will help you feel prepared and confident in potential business development situations.

The Place to Network: Transition Networking Strategies for Female Attorneys Image

The Place to Network: Transition Networking Strategies for Female Attorneys

Christy Burke

A look at various up-to-date options for female attorneys.

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Career Journal: Recruiting Redux: 'It Takes a Village'

Michael DeCosta

While most industries recruit young talent in an organized fashion, the legal profession takes it to a whole other level. This race for talent is akin to speed-dating forums where would-be soul mates have just a fleeting moment to size up someone they may very well spend the rest of their lives with. Here's how to fix it.

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Using Unbeatable Results to Generate New Business

Larry Bodine

Peter H. Klee is the biggest rainmaker at Luce Forward in San Diego, bringing in between $10- $15 million each year, and his insurance litigation practice continues to grow at a rate of 10% per year. Here is a portrait of an unbeatable record: No client represented in court by Peter has ever been found liable for breach of insurance contract, bad faith or any other tort.

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Muniauction v. Thomson

John M. Cone

The <i>Muniauction v. Thomson</i> decision illustrates the Federal Circuit's application of the Supreme Court's decision on obviousness in <i>KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex, Inc.</i> and confirms the Federal Circuit's own decision on "joint or divided" infringement in <i>BMC Resources, Inc. v. Paymentech</i>.

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Lessons Learned from a Gum Licensing Agreement

Daretia Austin

More than a decade after the license agreement between The Topps Company and Stani expired, the question of who owns the rights to manufacture and distribute the original Bazooka' bubble gum formula in South America is still unresolved.

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Six Strategies to Protect Clients Against IP Theft

Stefano Vranca

This article outlines strategies for protecting clients against IP theft.

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Predominance Requirement for Class Certification

Martin Flumenbaum & Brad S. Karp

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the district court's certification of a class action by smokers alleging they were deceived by the defendant tobacco companies' marketing of so-called light cigarettes as a healthier alternative to regular, or "full-flavored," cigarettes.

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Pharmaceutical And Medical Device Litigation

Lori G. Cohen & John B. Merchant, III

Part One of this article described some general principles regarding the concept of fraudulent joinder and the patchwork of conflicting definitions and procedures for analyzing fraudulent joinder that has developed in the Circuit Courts. This conclusion offers strategies for defeating fraudulent joinder.

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ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

In an article that appeared in the September 2008 issue, <i>Measuring Realization to Improve Firm Profits</i> by K. Jennie Kinnevy, the author's biography was inadvertently omitted.

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