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Grunfeld v. Grunfeld Revisited

Benjamin E. Schub

While New York courts have struggled in recent years to apply the principles set forth in <i>McSparron</i> and <i>Grunfeld</i> regarding the merger doctrine with respect to the valuation of professional licenses, the recent Court of Appeals decision in <i>Keane v. Keane</i>, 8 NY3d 115 (2006) may serve to complicate matters even further.

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A Tenant's Perspective on Co-Tenancy

Glenn A Browne

In order to protect against a shopping center becoming less populated with retail department stores or so-called 'anchor' tenants, tenants will request, and frequently obtain, co-tenancy provisions in their lease documents. While theco-tenancy provisions will vary from tenant to tenant, most co-tenancy provisions will at least protect the tenant from 'anchor' stores ceasing to operate (<i>i.e.</i>, 'going dark') and from a certain percentage of 'in-line' tenants being closed for business. However, the co-tenancy provisions are often very vague as to how a landlord will be deemed to have cured a situation where an anchor store has closed for business.

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Midsize Law Firms Shift Recruiting Strategies

Leigh Jones

Big law firms are snatching up qualified graduates as quickly as law schools can churn them out. And with those schools graduating about the same number of students each year, some observers say the tightest squeeze is on midsized firms, those with 150 to 350 attorneys that also want a steady, though smaller, supply of associates each year.

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A Case Study

Janet Wulf

This article reports the experience of one law firm's Director of Finance when she and her firm decided to switch software vendors rather than upgrade.

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Transforming Practice Areas into Profit Centers

Joel A. Rose

Many larger firms have had long experience in systematically managing practice areas, and are now focused on optimizing profitability from each area with the aid of enhanced benchmarking tools and business intelligence software. But for many midsize firms, practice area management has not expanded beyond its original quality-assurance role, leaving largely untapped its potential for improving firm profitability.

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Gaining Firm Acceptance of a Profitability Model

Kris Satkunas

As law firms grow in size, and expand geographically and across practice areas, the use of firm-wide profitability tools has become a business necessity. But understanding the urgency to adopt or update a profitability model doesn't guarantee its successful implementation.

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Web Networks Reprogram Law Firm Marketing

Philippa Maister

Experts see social networks as the next wave of business opportunities to come from the Web ' opportunities that are being exploited by small startups and companies as large as The Coca-Cola Co.

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Net News

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Man Fired for Visiting Adult Chat Room Sues and Claims Addiction<br>RIAA Denounces New Fair Use Bill

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Lawyers Should Heed Bob Dylan's Words

Joey Asher

Bob Dylan is the most cited musician in law, according to Oklahoma City University School of Law professor Alex B. Long. Dylan has twice the judicial and scholarly citations (160) of his nearest competitor, the Beatles (74), says Long. How does that affect you?

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<b><i>Commentary:</b></i> Bloggers' Big News Needs Scaling Down

James McGrath Morris

As they come, this judicial first wasn't exactly front-page news ' that is, if you are still in the habit of reading a quaint, old-fashioned newspaper. But in cyberspace, the decision of the U.S. District Court to include bloggers as bona fide members of the press pool during the recent 'Scooter' Libby trial was big news. For the first time ever in a federal court case, bloggers were officially welcomed as equals with newspaper and broadcast reporters, albeit in a little room down the hall from the actual trial in Courtroom 16.

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