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Building a Star-Studded, Long-Tenured Marketing Team

Jennifer Johnson Scalzi

As we all know, setting and achieving goals in a professional services environment can be challenging due to the differences in marketing certain practice groups and in how one practice group may perceive success compared with another. Here's how to make it work.

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Problematic Lease Provisions: The Top Three Offenders

Jill R. Johnson

Both landlords and tenants of commercial property must be careful in preparing and signing leases. Beyond the financial considerations of the agreement, both parties must consider how to protect themselves before, during and after the term of the lease. Although every commercial lease is unique, there are three provisions that often create the most problems for landlords and tenants: self-help repossession provisions, restrictive covenants, and repair provisions.

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Coaching: A Shift in Law Firm Culture

Virginia Bianco-Mathis & William Schurgin

The essence of this coaching approach, and why it works in a law firm setting, is that the coaches are partners who are also the teachers within the firm. They are in a position to role model the very culture that a firm wishes to build.

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Identity Theft and Your Income Taxes

Richard H. Stieglitz & David Albrecht

In 2013, 13.1 million people were victims of some sort of identity-theft. Often, you may think of identity theft as being confined to credit card or ATM fraud, yet there is an epidemic of fraudulent electronically filed tax returns. Identity-related tax fraud is the third-largest theft of federal funds after Medicare/Medicaid and unemployment-insurance fraud.

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Franchising in Russia

Mike Malloy

In Part One, last month, we discussed the fact that while international franchising always brings a host of issues and complications, importation of franchise concepts into Russia highlights some critical issues and some lessons for international franchising in a broader context. The discussion concludes herein.

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Law Firms Aren't Immune to Cybersecurity Risks

Jason Straight

Although law firms have managed to remain off the list of the year's biggest data breach victims, firms watching cybersecurity trends most closely are feeling increasingly uneasy about their own security posture.

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After Anthem, Diagnosing the Health of Data Security

Rebekah Mintzer

Companies have begun to experience attempts to breach their databases on a frequent basis, and have had to become hypervigilant about protecting their networks against hackers. But once every couple of months, the bad guys get through the defense systems in a big and highly publicized way, showcasing data disaster for company and customers. This was the case in early February when Anthem Inc., the second-largest health insurance company in the U.S., announced it had been hacked.

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The Abercrombie Religious Discrimination Case

Veena A. Iyer

Religious diversity in the United States is increasing, and so are charges of religious discrimination. Between In 2011 alone, the EEOC adjudicated 4,151 charges of religious discrimination. A look at a high-profile case.

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Jurisdiction in Product Liability Cases After 2014

Larry Goldhirsch

In 2014, two Supreme Court decisions radically changed jurisdictional rules, which were in place since the middle of the 20th century. These two recent cases will have immediate, far-reaching consequences for all product liability litigators, plaintiff or defense.

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President Obama's Executive Action on Immigration

Paul Virtue

Headlining the Executive Actions announced by President Obama on Nov. 20, 2014, were plans to defer the removal of, and to provide work authorization to, undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for more than five years and are parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. In addition, the administration will expand the existing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative.

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