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5 Ways Small and Midsize Law Firms Can Improve Realization Rates

Mike Mellor

Smaller law firms can significantly increase their chances of competing with large "Goliaths" by bringing an industry focus, maximizing their digital footprint, building processes and systems around the pitch/proposal process, looking backwards for strengths, and engaging in social media.

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The 4th Amendment and ESI

Peter A. Crusco

Courts continue to grapple with the specificity of description required by these warrants for electronically stored evidence so as not to undermine the particularity required by the Fourth Amendment.

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Supreme Court Puts End to Prudential Barriers In Chapter 11 Appeals

David Casazza, Elizabeth Kiernan & Addison Bennett

The Supreme Court's holding ensures that insurers who have long been silenced in Chapter 11 proceedings will now be heard. It is also a shot across the bow for two other judge-made, atextual doctrines that bar consideration of the merits in Chapter 11 appeals.

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Eminent Domain Law

New York Real Estate Law Reporter Staff

Public Purpose Finding Upheld

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Identifying and Articulating Your Differentiator Image

Identifying and Articulating Your Differentiator

Bethany Chieffallo

How to Convey Your Merits In a Way That Earns Trust, Clients and Distinctions While humility is incredibly important in business and law, it is equally important to identify and articulate what you do well — really well — in your practice. Those who can ascertain, embrace and communicate their differentiator(s) will be well-positioned for steady practice and client growth.

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Approving Attorney Opinion Letters In Lieu of Title Insurance Is Trending, But Use With Caution

Ahmad H. Mango

Despite being more affordable than title insurance, attorney opinion letters should be used with caution when replacing title insurance. The costs savings associated with this practice might not justify the additional risk associated with it.

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Eighth Circuit Expands Its Copyright Law Jurisprudence

Holley Horrell

The Eighth Circuit expanded its jurisprudence on copyright law twice in recent months. Addressing questions ranging from copyrightability to fair use, and arising from separate disputes involving a car dealership's customer intake form and a popular meme, these two opinions round out a body of just seven decisions on copyright law released by this appellate court in the past five years.

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New AI Suit By Authors Against Anthropic

Kat Black

A new class action filed on behalf of several authors alleges that artificial intelligence startup Anthropic committed "brazen infringement" by using "hundreds of thousands" of copyrighted books to train "Claude," its flagship collection of large language models.

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Conducting Internal Investigations When Parent Is a Foreign Company

Charles A. DeMonaco & Jana Volante Walshak

What criteria should the foreign parent organization use to select counsel in the United States to conduct the independent internal investigation?

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IRS Seeks to Regulate Partnership Basis Adjustments

Ezra Dyckman & Charles S. Nelson

The proposed regulations would disallow basis adjustments in many non-abusive scenarios where those basis adjustments are necessary to achieve tax results that correspond to economic reality.

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