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Key Considerations in Choosing a Survey Image

Key Considerations in Choosing a Survey

Don Williams, Pete Peterson, Bill Bachman & Mike Short

Part One of this article offered a general overview and comparison of the major surveys currently available for US law firms (Altman Weil's "The Survey of Law Firm Economics"; Hoffman Alvary's "The Flash Report on Law Firm Economics"; and Pricewaterhouse Coopers' "The Law Firm Statistical Survey"). Part Two offers advice on how to select a survey.

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Significant Changes for EEO-1 Form

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The EEOC has proposed significant changes in the way EEO-1 forms are to be completed, including revisions to the scope of the race/ethnicity categories and in the definition of job categories.

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Writing Insights

David J. Dempsey

<i>Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an imagesome hard phrase, sound and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them and the cause is half won.</i>-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Supreme Court Hands Arbitrators the Keys to the Class Action

Merrick T. Rossein

A plurality of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an arbitrator must decide whether class action arbitration in a consumer action is authorized. <i>Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle</i>, 123 S.Ct. 2402, (June 23, 2003). Four Justices concluded that whether or not the contracts forbid class arbitration is a disputed issue of contract interpretation and that such a dispute must be decided by an arbitrator. Justice Stevens concurred in the judgment.

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John Gaal's Ethics Corner

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Your ethics questions answered by the expert.

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Decisions of Interest

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent decisions of importance to your practice.

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A New York Perspective on Workplace 'Spam'

Jay W. Waks & Joshua E. Abraham

When employees lose their jobs, bitterness may breed revenge - revenge that goes well beyond the pilfering of pens on the way out. Disgruntled former employees have been known to defame the company to its clients, offer inside information to competitors, and initiate frivolous litigation, all at great cost to their former employers. But there is another problem that may be on the rise: spam, the Internet's version of junk mail.

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Decisions of Interest

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent decisions of importance to your practice.

Spousal Maintenance Arrears: Judge Gets Tough Image

Spousal Maintenance Arrears: Judge Gets Tough

Janice G. Inman

If a Nassau County judge has his way, people who are in arrears on their spousal maintenance payments will face much tougher sanctions.

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The Guardian <i>Ad Litem</i> As Mediator

Frances Z. Calafiore

In the high-conflict divorce, try as it may, a court has little to offer minor children caught in Mom and Dad's crossfire. Regrettably, in many, if not most, instances, the more resources directed toward high conflict divorces, the more opportunity for escalating the conflict, unintended though it may be. One of the reasons for this entrenching of positions seems to be the identification of a specific role with its concomitant stance for everyone involved.

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