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Question: Do law firms really need to please clients all of the time? Answer: Of course not. Only work to please those clients you wish to keep.

Every commercial real estate cycle is basically the same ' including that point, somewhere in the mid to end of the cycle, at which people become convinced that this one will be different for some specific reason. And here we are at that point again.

This article is Part Two of a two-part series. Part One appeared in the April issue of Entertainment Law & Finance. Part Two starts with a continuation of the author's discussion of First Amendment defenses to right of publicity claims.

Social media can be used to reveal personal communications, provide location information, prove and disprove alibis, establish crime or criminal enterprise and show instrumentalities or fruits of a crime. But there is no one rule of professional conduct that addresses what a lawyer can advise a client concerning the use of social media.

Analysis of a case involving an action by a landlord for a judgment declaring that the landlord was entitled to an accounting of the tenant's gross sales,

Although in many states the covenant of quiet enjoyment is implied in a commercial real estate lease, a landlord can limit its responsibilities and reduce its exposure by narrowing the scope of the covenant in the lease agreement.

It is with the deepest regret that we must inform you that this issue of LJN's Franchising Business & Law Alert will be the last.

At the end of 2015, the U.S. Copyright Office announced that it would take comments to determine the effectiveness of the safe harbor provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It's clear that the Copyright Office will hear some complaints that the DMCA doesn't offer enough of a deterrent against abusive takedown notices.