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  • A look at two recent cases of interest.

    April 02, 2017ljnstaff | Law Journal Newsletters
  • Any bankruptcy practitioner, upon first contact with a municipal bankruptcy case, may be shocked by the lack of substantive law to be found in Chapter 9. The dearth of detail has long caused bankruptcy lawyers and courts to turn to the far more substantive provisions of Chapter 11 for practical guidance.

    April 02, 2017Ron Oliner and John R. Weiss
  • Law firms must be diligent about their information security — not just via protection through technology, but by training staff on what to look for and how to react to cybersecurity threats. Most security breaches arise out of human error or negligence. Educating users is one of the best defenses.

    April 02, 2017Michael Kemps and Kimberly Pease
  • Debra P. Goldberg has joined the law firm of Cullen and Dykman LLP as a partner in the firm's Banking Practice Group. Practicing from the firm's Garden…

    April 02, 2017ljnstaff | Law Journal Newsletters
  • Will It Work for Your Firm?

    Flexible working arrangements support greater productivity and employee engagement while enhancing millennials' personal well-being, health and happiness, according to a survey by Deloitte. And what do employers get for giving millennials this flexibility? Loyalty.

    April 02, 2017Meghan Tribe
  • One of the toughest aspects of content marketing is generating content on a reliable basis. The bad news is you cannot take attorneys out of the process completely because they are the subject matter experts. The good news is you can use various tactics to motivate and help them to produce good content.

    April 02, 2017Edie Reinhardt
  • A settlement was reached on Feb. 10 between McNeil Consumer Healthcare and more than 200 plaintiffs who claim liver damage from taking the drug maker's product, Tylenol.

    April 02, 2017ljnstaff | Law Journal Newsletters
  • New York Statute of Limitations Applies To Music Contract Dispute Over Property in Dominican Republic
    Stating Use "In Commerce" in Trademark Application Isn't Trademark Infringement

    April 02, 2017Stan Soocher
  • IT security professionals used to warn that only two types of businesses exist: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Now, many are even more pessimistic, and divide the world's businesses into companies that know that they have been hacked, and those that don't. Law firms are juicy targets with all the personal identifiable information (PII) contained in client files. Intellectual property practices are especially attractive to cyber thieves because of the value of patent, trademark and trade secret information.

    April 02, 2017Sean B. Cooney