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Proving Your Insurance Claim

Daniel G. Lentz & Ryan D. Pratt

Many companies have taken lessons from catastrophic events such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and developed business-continuity plans to protect their people and assets and to restore operations as quickly as possible. While these plans are instrumental in restoring a company's operations, many miss an important aspect of any continuity plan — the programs and protocols that must be in place to prove losses related to the incident and recover funds from an insurance company.

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Navigating State Guaranty Funds: What to Expect When Your Insurer Is Insolvent

Gerald R. Kowalski & Jodi D. Spencer

Your insurance company is insolvent. Now what? Your state guaranty fund may provide some relief, but is it worth pursuing? As explored in this article, that depends.

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The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and D&O Insurance: A New Frontier of Litigation

Nancy D. Adams

Whether a D&O policy will afford coverage for the litigation resulting from the collapse of the subprime mortgage lending industry is yet to be seen. As discussed in this article, there are several policy provisions that are likely to be relevant in the subprime context.

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Movers & Shakers

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Don't Get Caught With Your Patents Down

Terry Ludlow

Part One of this series discussed the history of licensing and the need to prove infringement. This month's installment addresses patent trolls and the rise of the Asian IP powerhouse.

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Searching for BRICS

John H. Hornickel

The worldwide patenting landscape is undergoing slow but inevitable tectonic shifts. During the first half of this century, the oligopoly of the United States, Europe, and Japan as the source of the vast majority of new ideas will be broken with the rise of innovation concentrated in other nations beyond the Trilateral, as the USPTO, EPO, and JPO are known.

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Intellectual Property: Currency of the New Economy

Keith Bergelt

This article considers the way in which the capital markets view IP assets and the means by which IP is emerging as the currency of the new economy.

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Five Significant Inter-Generational Relations Blunders

Phyllis Weiss Haserot

Firms are struggling with generational divides because they make the blunders enumerated in this article.

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It's No Coincidence: The Successful Firms Have Strong Management and Leadership

Robert W. Denney

Nothing is as important to the success of a law firm as strong leadership at the top. Yet, in far too many firms, the partners are still reluctant to give anyone the CEO authority needed for effective management and leadership.

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Advancing Women in Law Firms

Jennifer Bluestein

This article lays the groundwork for those in power to learn how they can help women lawyers succeed.

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