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Yes, You'll Retire Someday. Avoid These Retirement Financial Pitfalls Now. Image

Yes, You'll Retire Someday. Avoid These Retirement Financial Pitfalls Now.

Justin Peacock

Here are some common retirement planning pitfalls that lawyers often experience.

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Practical Impact of D.C. Circuit's Ruling on Foreign Broadcasters and Copyright Liability Image

Practical Impact of D.C. Circuit's Ruling on Foreign Broadcasters and Copyright Liability

Scott D. Locke & Laura-Michelle Horgan

Broadcasters around the globe know that Americans want access to digital content and that they often ignore who provides it to them. For business reasons, tax reasons or to try to avoid liability under copyright law, many of these broadcasters intentionally do not set up operations in the United States. However, when these broadcasters transmit content for which they do not have authorization, they may be in violation of the copyright holder's rights.

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Arbitration Impact on Attorney Fees and Film Company Principal

Stan Soocher

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a district court's award of attorney fees to Sony Corp. under §505 of the Copyright Act for winning a ruling that a lawsuit over a Sony Music songwriting contest should be sent to arbitration.

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Security Breach Responses — As Important and Difficult As Ever

Bart A. Lazar

The confusing and conflicting world of contractual requirements and personal data security breach notification laws can add insult and expense to injury, and sometimes adds injury itself. Tough -- and sometimes expensive -- choices need to be made quickly.

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Protecting Privilege Before and After a Cyber Breach

Robert W. Anderson & Eric B. Levine

Critical to any counsel working to prevent a cyber-attack or respond to a successful cyber intrusion is an understanding why and how to properly utilize both attorney-client and work-product privilege. The overriding principle of using privilege is straightforward: to protect your organization's investigation and breach response efforts from usage by third parties or regulatory agencies in litigation arising from a breach.

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Commentary: 'Thin' vs. 'Broad' Protection for Music Works Image

Commentary: 'Thin' vs. 'Broad' Protection for Music Works

Dr. Dariush Adli

The hotly disputed legal issue between the majority and dissent in the recent, highly-publicized “Blurred Lines” decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concerned whether Marvin Gaye's 1976 hit song “Got to Give it Up” was entitled to “broad” or “thin” copyright protection.

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Commentary: Smaller Space for Innovation Leads to More Infringement Suits

Christopher J. Buccafusco

Pop musicians may be running out of creative space. And this problem is being exacerbated by the behaviors of what we might call the “legacy” interests — parties who own copyright interests in already-created songs but who won't be making any new music.

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The Topography of a Strong Attorney Biography Image

The Topography of a Strong Attorney Biography

John Buchanan

<i><b>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</i></b><p>In addition to ensuring that a bio focuses on “the right stuff,” it is essential that the bio be both search engine and social media friendly.

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This is Not Your Father's Cloud

Adam Cohen

<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p>Part One of this two-part article is aimed at demystifying the hesitations behind cloud security and analyzing the fast-growing transformation to a range of newer technical approaches with important consequences for legal practice.

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Prospering in the 'New Normal'

J. Mark Santiago

<b><i>Raising Costs and Declining Demand are Sapping Profits</b></i><p>The “New Normal” of today is one in which raising operating costs, associate salary increases, and reduced realization rates coupled with AFAs and demands from corporate counsel for reduced rates are sapping firm profits and there is no relief on the horizon. Law firm leaders, seeing current conditions, should be asking if there is a better way.

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