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Competitive Intelligence: What Is Your Dashboard Report Telling You? Chances Are, Not Much. Image

Competitive Intelligence: What Is Your Dashboard Report Telling You? Chances Are, Not Much.

Jim Jarrell

Until recently, most law firms operated with a cadre of legacy operating systems, financial platforms and reporting technologies from different manufacturers that have no mechanism for connecting with each other, let alone automatically extracting and updating data points between systems. The disparate nature of these technologies has exacerbated the struggle to leverage data and display results in a reporting mechanism that helps direct the firm's decision-making.

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Leadership In Law: Leadership for the Strong Image

Leadership In Law: Leadership for the Strong

Silvia Coulter

Law firms have many leaders. Yet in many cases, no formal leadership training takes place, leaving others in their groups or offices performing at less than optimal levels and on their own to get the job done often feeling pressured and stressed. Here are some tips to help partners who lead operational teams, offices, practices, departments, or the firm itself, to implement for leadership impact that books and professors don't seem to directly address.

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Marketing Tech: Five Quick and Easy Ways to Hack Your Business Development Image

Marketing Tech: Five Quick and Easy Ways to Hack Your Business Development

Ari Kaplan

The most popular justification for avoiding business-development activities is a lack of time. There are, however, a number of strategies that will allow you to execute and produce results in minutes — or even seconds.

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The Time to Improve Administrative Performance Is Now Image

The Time to Improve Administrative Performance Is Now

J. Mark Santiago

This article focuses on what a firm can do now that will improve future firm economics regardless of what the future may hold. It identifies three areas that offer the great opportunity for improving a law firms' economics and better positioning them for whatever the future may bring.

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Takeaways from the Recent Qualcomm Decision Image

Takeaways from the Recent Qualcomm Decision

Karen Hoffman Lent & Kenneth Schwartz

The DOJ's intervention, and the judge's ultimate decision, has exposed tensions between the DOJ and FTC, and within the FTC itself, and public scrutiny is far from over as the case heads to the Ninth Circuit on appeal.

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Reflections on Potential Legislative Reform of the Patent Eligibility Standard Image

Reflections on Potential Legislative Reform of the Patent Eligibility Standard

Nicole D. Galli

In the last five years, the courts have instead began wading into policy setting without the tools and resources to fully consider all the issues and various interests. Thus, the recent congressional efforts to consider these questions is welcome and, frankly, overdue.

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States Not Immune from PTAB Proceedings, Federal Circuit Rules Image

States Not Immune from PTAB Proceedings, Federal Circuit Rules

Scott Graham

Fifteen states had argued that they and their public universities shouldn't have to expose their patents to validity review at the patent trial and appeal board.

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IP News Image

IP News

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg & Abhishek Bapna

Federal Circuit Finds District Court Erred in Analysis of Motivation to Combine Prior Art References, Yet Affirms Ultimate Conclusion of Non-obviousness Due to the Lack of a Reasonable Expectation of Success<br>Federal Circuit Rules that Issue Preclusion Bars a Party from Arguing in an Appeal of an Inter Partes Review Decision an Issue Previously Decided in Another Inter Partes Review Proceeding that Was Not Appealed

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5 Quick and Easy Ways to Hack Your Business Development Image

5 Quick and Easy Ways to Hack Your Business Development

Ari Kaplan

The most popular justification for avoiding business-development activities is a lack of time. There are, however, a number of strategies that will allow you to execute and produce results in minutes — or even seconds.

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How Changes In Texas Anti-SLAPP Statute Affects Entertainment Industry Image

How Changes In Texas Anti-SLAPP Statute Affects Entertainment Industry

Brent Turman

Approximately 30 states have enacted anti-SLAPP statutes, which are intended to deter lawsuits that impede the right to free speech and other related activities. New statutory language in Texas's anti-SLAPP statute specifically protects those in the entertainment and media industries, and such explicit reference should prove comfort to content creators and publishers.

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