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The Adjudication of Affordability

Gary Riveles & Alessio Faiella

In catastrophic personal injury actions, the largest element of compensatory damages often is the measure of the cost of lifetime future medical care. Now, we have a new wrinkle in the issue, courtesy of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). How will it affect the award of money damages in civil lawsuits?

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Associate Salary Stratification More Likely In 'Buyer's Market'

Lizzy McLellan

Since Cravath, Swaine & Moore upped the ante on associate salaries this Spring, others in the big law community have responded gradually, some going all-in and others devising region-specific pay scales. In the current market, industry watchers say, the salary game has changed, and most firms will need to take the more thoughtful approach.

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Firms Increasingly Making Partners Pay to Leave

Gina Passarella, Christine Simmons & Roy Strom

As law firms look to protect themselves from cash walking out the door in a low-demand market, they are increasingly looking at methods to discourage lateral departures and, perhaps more importantly, are enforcing those methods more frequently.

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In the Courts

ALM Staff

Discussion of a case in which the Supreme Court vacated the conviction of ex-Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

EFF Challenges DMCA's Anti-Circumvention Provision

Ben Hancock

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati have teamed up to challenge provisions in U.S. copyright law that threaten harsh penalties for breaking "digital locks" guarding content such as music and software code.

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Recent Guidance Regarding Deduction of Fines

David E. Kahen & Elliot Pisem

Internal Revenue Code ' 162 provides: "No deduction shall be allowed under subsection (a) for any fine or similar penalty paid to a government for the violation of any law." The controversies that continue to arise under ' 162(f) are illustrated by two memoranda released within the past few months.

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The Adjudication of Affordability

Gary Riveles & Alessio Faiella

Since the first civil lawsuit for money damages, plaintiffs have sought to maximize recoveries while defendants have sought to minimize them. This creates an obvious tension that is often left to a jury. Now, we have a new wrinkle in the issue, courtesy of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). How will it affect the award of money damages in civil lawsuits?

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<b><i>Legal Tech:</b></i> Modernizing Litigation Practice: What Can the U.S. Learn from Electronic Courtrooms and Paperless Trials Abroad?

Clare Foley

Legal professionals interested in the next wave of innovation in litigation technology can look overseas to the developments over the last several years in the UK and Singapore.

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Eminent Domain Law

ALM Staff

Analysis of a case involving compensation of condemnees.

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Investing in New Technologies

Doug Luftman

Until recently, corporate legal departments often had more leeway in complying with corporate operational and budgetary expectations than other departments. Now, however, companies are expecting legal departments to more accurately predict the quality, timing and cost for their services.

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