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Building Successful Partnerships Requires Collaboration Image

Building Successful Partnerships Requires Collaboration

DeWitt A. Sullivan

Partnerships are relationships, ideally relationships built on trust and a common goal. Successful partnerships require all parties working together — working together to service a client fully, generate revenue and to build a business. This requires openness and coordination.

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California Privacy Protection Agency Roster Set

Mike Scarcella

California named five members to the inaugural board of the California Privacy Protection Agency, a new entity created by voters in 2020 that will enforce the state's sweeping consumer privacy laws.

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Landlords Could See Courts Sympathetic to Tenants In Eviction Lawsuits

James D. Silver

While residential cases will grab the headlines, commercial property owners, managers and their attorneys should know that financially troubled tenants will be making news of their own. Armed with the hope of keeping their business afloat, they will unveil, or expand on, defenses to mitigate the pandemic's financial impact and to save their leases.

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Congress Leaves SEC Subject to Litigation Over Disgorgement

Sarah Aberg & Chris Bosch

Buried in the massive National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 is §6501, a provision authorizing the SEC to seek disgorgement of unjust enrichment within 10 years for certain securities law violations, and five years for others.

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Synergizing Patents to Drive Innovation and Growth

Siraj Husain

As intellectual property continues to influence business operations, more companies are considering defensive patent pools as a strategic measure to guard against threats that can stifle innovation and growth for both businesses and industries.

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Asserting the Common Interest Doctrine In Plan-Related Discovery

Francis J. Lawall & Marcy J. McLaughlin Smith

The common interest doctrine can be a powerful tool when used to block discovery of relevant and sometimes critical evidence. However, a determination of when it can be invoked requires a highly fact-intensive analysis.

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Landlord & Tenant Law

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Tenant Entitled to Terminate Lease When Premises Were Not Broom Clean Provision Ending Discounted Rate If Tenant Pays Late Is Unenforceable

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11th Circuit Rules for Stephen King In Suit Over Dark Tower Series

Michael A. Mora

Vincent Cox of Ballard Spahr in Los Angeles and Scott Ponce of Holland & Knight in Miami prevailed recently in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh…

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Law Firms Taking Advantage of Tenant's Market In Office Space

Meredith Hobbs

Law firms are waiting to see how new trends like working remotely play out for office space post-pandemic, but that wait-and-see approach has created a tenant's market with opportunities for proactive firms in the short term.

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Business Development: How & Why Law Firms Should Invest In Associates' Business Development Efforts

Randi Rosenblatt

Many attorneys don't actually know how to scale business and require guidance in order to develop and exercise that muscle. This is precisely why law firms should invest in their associates' business development efforts from the start.

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