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If Your Audience Doesn’t Hear You, Are You Really Marketing?
If your marketing is focused on showcasing your knowledge, skills and experience — your expertise — but it isn’t consistently reaching or engaging the people who would hire or refer you you’re missing two of the three critical marks.
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Sending a Shot Across the Brow: Drafting An Effective Trademark Demand Letter
At the end of the day, demand letters form an important part of a company's trademark enforcement strategy. But they must be just that — a part of a fully developed reasoned strategy rather than a knee-jerk reaction to perceived infringement. And that strategy will require some investigation and research to help ensure success.
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Illinois Appellate Court Upholds Defense Counsel’s $21K In Attorneys Fees In Commercial Tenancy Dispute
A defense counsel’s award of over $21,000 in attorney fees in a commercial lease dispute was upheld in February by a three-judge panel for and Illinois appellate court, finding the plaintiff did not fully establish the shortfalls of the fee petition.
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Mastering AI for Legal Professionals
Mastering AI tools is vital for law firms striving to remain competitive. The increasing demand for prompt and effective services means firms that do not adapt may fall behind. Mastery of AI enhances workflow efficiency while enabling predictive analysis, client insights, and improved decision-making.
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Trump Administration Takes New Crypto-Enthusiastic Regulatory Approach
Just weeks since the Trump administration took the reins, we can already see the broad outlines of a truly seismic change in the U.S. government’s approach to crypto — one that promises to create never before seen opportunities for crypto to expand its presence and achieve an unparalleled level of integration into the U.S. and global financial systems.
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Players On the Move
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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J&J’s Third Talc Bankruptcy Case Begins
A critical trial in Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder bankruptcy began on February 18, with several lawyers arguing to dismiss the Chapter 11 case and reject the $10 billion plan.
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Eminent Domain Law
Condemnation Upheld Because It Did Not Interfere With Prior Public Use
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Is the Ballooning Billing Rate Ready to Pop?
Short of a seismic financial shock, hefty law firm billing rate increases are seemingly here to stay, much to the chagrin of clients and their general counsel. But that’s not to say that market conditions aren’t evolving to challenge the status quo of large rate increases — and in the words of one consultant advising corporate law departments, you don’t know you’re in a bubble until it pops.
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