The Place to Network: Innovative Networking Strategies for Women Attorneys
If pressed, undoubtedly any woman attorney could come up with a litany of reasons why she cannot be a rainmaker or proactive networker, ranging from responsibilities at home to discrimination or being underestimated in terms of capabilities by bosses or clients, both male and female. The good news is that rather than searching for excuses, many female lawyers are aggressively and successfully networking to develop their client rosters despite challenges they face.
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Career Journal: Looking at Law-Firm Marketing Depts. in 2007
The first half of 2007 revealed some new trends in law-firm marketing, including structural shifts in departments that are yielding the addition of new job functions. This has made the quest for talent to fill these roles exceedingly difficult.
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Announcing the Third Annual MLF 50
Once again, it is time for law firm marketing and communications departments to start thinking about their submissions for consideration to earn a spot on the coveted MLF 50 ' The Top 50 Law Firms in Marketing and Communications.
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Clause & Effect
Satellite Television/Programming-Exclusivity Agreements.
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CA Considers Law to Protect Band Names
Every night in Las Vegas, Baby Boomers plunk down $47.30 each and file into the Sahara Hotel & Casino's Congo Room to revisit the sounds of their youth. They've come to spend an evening with 'The Platters, Drifters, Coasters.' It's a performance steeped in nostalgia, save one element: None of the artists on stage were ever members of the musical groups that most remember as the Platters, the Coasters or the Drifters.
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Copyright Infringement/Claim Dismissal; Decryption-Software Sales/Illegality Defense.
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Decision of Note: Songs in Karaoke Not Fair Use
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided that the unlicensed use of songs for karaoke recordings was not a fair use. <i>Zomba Enterprises Inc. v. Panorama Records Inc.</i>, 06-5013.
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Internet Music Stream vs. Download
If a music file is downloaded to a computer and no one is there to play it, does it constitute a performance? This is not some question from a digital-age freshman philosophy seminar ' it was the legal issue recently facing Judge William C. Connor in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in <i>United States v. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)</i>, 485 F.Supp.2d 438 (S.D.N.Y. 2007).
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