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  • The increasing competition in the legal industry highlights the importance of differentiation and adding value beyond the work product. Face-to-face interactions with clients are a critical component in differentiation because they provide the opportunity to understand better the nuances of clients' businesses, develop deeper relationships, and drive productive collaboration.

    April 01, 2018Brook W. Redmond and Ali C. Ferro
  • Develop content with a purpose in mind versus simply creating content for its own sake. Retweets and shares are fine, but they shouldn't be the end goal of a lawyer's effort. Instead, creating content should be about enabling the lawyer to feel comfortable and easily engage with clients.

    April 01, 2018Mary Margaret Gorman and John Hellerman
  • Questions of Fact Bar Summary Judgment in Condominium's Claim for Improper Alterations
    Sponsor Did Not Breach Purchase Contract
    Unit Owners Did Not Have Exclusive Right to Elevator Shaft

    April 01, 2018ssalkin
  • For members of a conservative industry that — literally — wrote the rulebook on sexual harassment, law firms need to be ready for a day of reckoning that seems inescapable.

    April 01, 2018John Hellerman
  • In re Lexington Hospitality Group, LLC

    Bankruptcy remote structures are often used to protect against the impact of default under a credit facility. A common mechanism is organizational documents requiring an outside director or member's vote to authorize a bankruptcy filing. However, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky found that such a requirement implemented at the behest of a lender, among other bankruptcy restrictions, and where there was not true independence frustrated the important federal public policy of favoring fresh starts in bankruptcy.

    April 01, 2018Jeffrey S. Greenberg
  • Claim Preclusion Requires Analysis that Claims in Newly Asserted Patents are Patently Indistinct from Claims in Previously Adjudicated Patents
    Claim Elements Taught by Prior Art for Purposes of Novelty and Obviousness are not Necessarily 'Well-Understood, Routine, and Conventional' Under §101

    April 01, 2018Howard Shire and Michael Block
  • Arkansas State Senator Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Money Laundering

    April 01, 2018ssalkin
  • Movers and shakers in bankruptcy law.

    April 01, 2018ssalkin