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Update: The China Equipment Leasing Market Image

Update: The China Equipment Leasing Market

Jonathan L. Fales

<b><I>Reaching an Inflection Point</I></b><p>As the Chinese government tightly regulates leasing, it is problematic that the industry has never been able to develop a unified position on important licensing, tax, capitalization, regulatory and other requirements. This needs to change if the industry is to continue to expand, particularly among small and medium enterprises.

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Exit Interviews and Your Firm's Culture Image

Exit Interviews and Your Firm's Culture

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Through the process of conducting exit interviews with the good attorneys who have left, along with those the firm has asked to leave, you can gather intel about your firm's culture. The business justification for doing exit interviews is to learn about and improve systematic organizational or interpersonal issues that may be adversely impacting your firm.

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Verdicts

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In-depth analysis of two key rulings.

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Case Notes

ljnstaff & Law Journal Newsletters

A look at a situation in which, because the drug-manufacturing defendants seeking federal retention of a case removed from state court were unable to prove the four elements of the U.S. Supreme Court's <I>Gunn</I> test for federal-question jurisdiction, the case was remanded back to state court.

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NY's Paid Family Leave Program Image

NY's Paid Family Leave Program

Sharon P. Stiller & Rachel Demarest Gold

<b><I>Part One of a Two-Part Article</I></b><p>Effective Jan. 1, 2018, New York State will have its own "Paid Family Leave Benefits Law." Since the payroll deductions supporting the Law began July 1, 2017, it is not too early to begin reviewing your employer obligations.

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Cooperatives & Condominiums

ljnstaff & Law Journal Newsletters

Discussion of two major cases.

Features

How Firms Should Be Measuring the Profitability of Matters Image

How Firms Should Be Measuring the Profitability of Matters

Hugh A. Simons

Matter profitability matters. Yet most firms struggle to measure it in a manner that is accurate, focused on the levers partners control, and inclines partners to take action. Using margin per-partner-hour (MPH) to measure profitability delivers on these objectives.

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IP News

Howard J. Shire

Federal Circuit Throws Out District Court's Test for “Place of Business” for Purposes of Determining Venue in Patent Cases

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Drug & Device News

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Discussion of cases involving opioid addiction and medical marijuana in the workplace.

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Delaware Dethroned

Sue Reisinger

<b><i>South Dakota Now Top Corporate Lawsuit Venue</b></i><p>South Dakota has replaced Delaware as the No. 1 choice of in-house counsel and business executives for handling corporate lawsuits, according to a new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform.

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