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Landlord & Tenant Law

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Loft Board Lacks Authority to Supervise Legalization Once Tenants Withdraw Application Tenant Entitled to Relief from Failure to Timely Exercise Renewal Option

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Development

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Neighbor Has Standing to Seek Damages for Violation of Zoning Ordinance

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Co-ops and Condominiums

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Co-op Entitled to Attroneys' Fees

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COVID 19: Selling in Times of Uncertainty

Debra Baker

The natural instinct during times of chaos is to move into a place of scarcity. The single best gift you can offer clients is courage and confidence about the path forward.

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How to Make Working from Home, Work for You

Sharon Meit Abrahams

In the legal industry it is time for a paradigm shift. Many firms have struggled with allowing people to work from home for a myriad of reasons. At this point, we have no choice. To help you get off on the right foot, the following are some best practices as we move forward into this new working environment.

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Make It Stick: Eight Strategies to Make Your Business Development Training More Effective

Eric Dewey

One factor in the slack of demand for law firms that is not being talked about is the state of the business development training and coaching that firms use to build their business development capabilities in the firm.

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Linking Partner Pay to Strategic Firm Objectives

J. Mark Santiago

In general law firms have been slower to adopt pay for performance systems. What law firms need now, and this article describes, is an approach to partner compensation that closely links a partners pay to their ability to contribute to the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives.

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Attorney's Fees After Octane: More Chances for Defendants to Even the Playing Field

Rudy Y. Kim

With fewer restraints after Octane, district courts now have broader discretion to grant motions for attorney's fees. But understanding the circumstances under which exceptionality has been found is critical. Recent decisions by the Federal Circuit post-Octane provide some important guidance on when attorney's fees may be available under Section 285.

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Swedish Music Industry Views: Part Two

Stan Soocher

Part Two of a Two Part Article This article discusses, among other things, the Swedish music industry perspective on the European Union's Copyright Directive, the growth of multi-country music licensing hubs and the impact of Brexit.

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Kozinski Angle In 9th Circuit's Led Zeppelin Ruling

Scott Graham

Defendants Led Zeppelin and its music labels were the winners in the copyright decision by the Ninth Circuit over the song "Stairway to Heaven." But the estate of songwriter Randy Wolfe (p/k/a California) wasn't the only one who got the short end. Among the collateral damage from the ruling was a 2002 precedent written by former Chief Judge Alex Kozinski that endorsed the so-called "inverse-ratio" rule.

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