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Law Firms Taking Advantage of Tenant's Market In Office Space
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
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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Law Firms Try to Hold On to 2020 Savings
A once-in-a-lifetime pandemic caused once-in-a-lifetime expense reductions that could forever alter the business of law. After those cost savings fueled double-digit profit growth for many firms in 2020, don't be surprised if Big Law leaders try to make some of those gains stick.
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Eleventh Circuit Flirts With Nominative Fair Use Test in Alan Parsons Project Trademark Case
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Equity In Broad and Flexible Fashion
Federal Circuit Wasn't Chicken to Grant Equitable Intervening Right in Poultry Processing Equipment Case A dispute between the two titans in the poultry processing equipment market led the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to construe the term "protection of investments" in 35 U.S.C. §252.
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How Does a Bankruptcy Litigator Move from One Law Firm to Another?
Chapter 11 work can be episodic and uneven, and while litigation skills are essential, it is also quite specialized. So, given these qualities, how does a bankruptcy litigator go about moving from one law firm to another, and what are the pitfalls?
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Criminal Liability of Executives and In-House Attorneys for Corporate Actions
Data breaches, while frequent in number and severity, remain big news events today. Even more newsworthy is when a corporate in-house attorney is criminally prosecuted in connection with his role in responding to a data breach event.
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Legal Tech: The Ethics of E-Discovery In a Remote Work Environment
Just as the pandemic has challenged every aspect of our lives, the shift to a remote work environment has significantly impacted e-discovery and the ethical obligations of attorneys in this ever-evolving technological and legal landscape.
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