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Supreme Court Deadlock over Spousal Guaranties Will Continue to Affect Costs of Equipment Financing
This article is a follow-up to the author's September, 2015, review of best practices for obtaining spousal guaranties in equipment financing transactions in light of the Supreme Court's decision in <i>Hawkins v. Community Bank of Raymore.</i>
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Drug & Device News
Discussion of several key news items that affect med mal practitioners.
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Child-Support Judgments Beyond U.S. Borders
The whole purpose behind the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), adopted, for example, as Article 5-b of the New York Family Court Act (FCA), is to make the process uniform, cheap and easy to register and enforce support judgments from different states. But what about a cross-border award?
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Cyber Security Challenges and Potential Uninsured Exposures
This article provides a broad overview of cyber security challenges, and the insurance coverage (or lack thereof) for the financial impact of those cyber security challenges.
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<b><i>Voice of the Client:</i></b> Getting to Wow!
The old-school term is Client Satisfaction. It's been replaced with Client Delight, which is defined as beyond satisfaction. No matter what you call it, best-in-class client service is where it's at ' and where it will be going for some years to come.
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Measure to Manage: Understanding and Using Data to Affect Firm Change and Client Relationships
Organized and meaningful data has been leveraged in progressive organizations for years, but now that data and information is highly accessible and easily consumable via the ever-expanding digital mesh, enterprise-level expectations and related legal business impact have been elevated. With this new reality come many questions.
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Survey: Distrust of Vendors Raises Questions on Data Security, Regulatory Compliance
Obviously, data breaches aren't trust builders, but many companies are skeptical even of those parties with whom they share confidential data, including their own vendors.
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Litigators' Perspectives on Prince
The legendary and now deceased Prince ' singer, songwriter, producer and man of myriad other talents ' kept a bevy of high-profile lawyers busy during the past three decades. Prince developed a somewhat complicated relationship with the Internet, and fought to protect his brand and music against unauthorized use. And for that he needed lawyers, lots of them.
Business Crimes Hotline
A look at a Massachusetts case in which a grand jury indicted two former executives at State Street Corp., the Boston-based financial services firm, with defrauding clients of millions of dollars on secret commissions applied to securities trades.
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