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Match Your Business Development Plan With Your Personality Image

Match Your Business Development Plan With Your Personality

Glennie Green

It is critical that lawyers determine strategies that match their skills, personalities, and perceptions and experiences.

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Survey Says: Tips on Getting Over the Daubert Hurdle Image

Survey Says: Tips on Getting Over the Daubert Hurdle

Rebecca Kirk Fair, Peter Hess & Vendela Fehrm

Surveys can provide useful evidence in litigation if they are conducted by a qualified expert employing reliable methods that survive a Daubert challenge. In the first of a series of articles drawing on our review of over 300 U.S. court rulings in cases involving surveys, including over 150 Daubert motions, we provide some suggestions for getting survey evidence admitted for consideration in court.

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Update on Corporate Bankruptcy Tax Refund Litigation Image

Update on Corporate Bankruptcy Tax Refund Litigation

Michael L. Cook

The bankruptcy trustee of a bank holding company was not entitled to a consolidated corporate tax refund when a bank subsidiary had incurred losses generating the refund, Tenth Circuit held.

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Real Estate Loan Workout: Exchange of Enhancements for Concessions Image

Real Estate Loan Workout: Exchange of Enhancements for Concessions

Richard S. Fries

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a property owner might reach out to its lender for urgent, needed debt relief. The lender, which strives for a performing asset, an on-going relationship with its customer makes concessions. In exchange for these concessions, the lender should obtain credit and legal enhancements., which should also enable the lender to make concessions that are more meaningful to the property owner, its investors, its tenants and its business.

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How Cultivating Existing Client Relationships Can Boost Business Development Image

How Cultivating Existing Client Relationships Can Boost Business Development

Scott Wallingford

Strategic business development is critical to support firm growth, and CRM software is the backbone of a data-driven approach. It not only helps your firm prospect for future clients, but also helps you strengthen and expand existing client relationships.

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Co-ops and Condominiums Image

Co-ops and Condominiums

ssalkin

Sponsor Correctly Calculated Reserve Fund Shareholder Did Not Breach Survival of Closing Affidavit

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Recent Court Views on "Making Available" Controversy In Copyright Infringement Image

Recent Court Views on "Making Available" Controversy In Copyright Infringement

Stan Soocher

Federal courts have long disagreed over whether the unauthorized "making available" of a plaintiff's works to the public is sufficient to constitute copyright infringement under the U.S. Copyright Act. Two June District Court decisions demonstrated the differences between the views of the Fourth and Ninth Circuits.

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Virtual Training & Mentoring for Summer and First Year Associates

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Conscientious development of associates through training and mentoring enables them to become dynamic, professional, and ethical attorneys who provide high quality service that clients expect.

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What TARP Investigations Can Teach Us About Stimulus Fraud Image

What TARP Investigations Can Teach Us About Stimulus Fraud

Terence M. Grugan, David L. Axelrod & Emilia McKee Vassallo

For more than 10 years, federal investigators have investigated criminal conduct in connection with the 2008 recession-era TARP program. From those investigations, U.S. Attorneys across the country brought cases and earned convictions for offenses spanning the federal criminal code. We can expect that these same agencies will use the same techniques and strategies to investigate crimes and bring cases involving fraud related to the COVID-19 stimulus packages.

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Estate Professionals Can Be Compensated for Services Performed Before Entry of a Retention Order, Even Without Nunc Pro Tunc Orders Image

Estate Professionals Can Be Compensated for Services Performed Before Entry of a Retention Order, Even Without Nunc Pro Tunc Orders

Sheryl P. Giugliano

Bankruptcy professionals should be relieved by a recent decision holding that although nunc pro tunc orders approving a professional's retention are now considered "inappropriate" in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan, there is nothing in the Bankruptcy Code, Bankruptcy Rules, or applicable case law preventing an award of compensation before a retention order is entered.

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