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Discussion of a case involving a teen's suicide.

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Two pivotal cases are discussed.

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A look at med mal-related legislation in New York and California.

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Captive Insurance Arrangements

John N. Ellison & Luke E. Debevec

Companies that use captive insurance companies to manage risk are increasingly being victimized by excess insurance companies and reinsurers that participate in their insurance programs. But captives and their owners can proactively avoid some of these common pitfalls.

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Sales Speak:Stop 'Selling Stuff '

Bruce Alltop

Given that lawyers are not sales professionals and only spend a small amount of their time focused on business development, and given that they already have a full-time job, it's important to keep the business development approach as simple as possible. Some ideas related to keeping it simple follow:

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'Triggering Event Test'

Aram Ordubegian & M. Douglas Flahaut

In the preference avoidance context, the insolvency of the debtor is an element of the <I> prima facie</I> case that is not commonly litigated. When it is litigated, however, the scope of a debtor's liabilities can make or break the case.

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Legal Presumptions of Consumer Confusion and Injury in Lanham Act Cases

Bruce Colbath

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit "clarified certain aspects of [its] false advertising jurisprudence" and held that, where literal falsity and deliberate deception have been proved in a market with only two players, it is appropriate to use legal presumptions of consumer confusion and injury for the purposes of finding liability in a false advertising case brought under the Lanham Act. <i>Merck Eprova AG v. Gnosis S.p.A.</i>

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The EU 'Right to Be Forgotten' Judgment

Andre Bywater & Jonathan Armstrong

When the European Union's highest court, the European Court of Justice, handed down a controversial landmark ruling in a matter commonly referred to as the "right to be forgotten" case, it sent ripples that impact online privacy in the United States.

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Media & Communications: How to Get a Return on Your PR Investment

John Hellerman & John Ford

If you ask 10 attorneys what the goals of their PR efforts are, you would get 10 different answers. Here's how to coordinate and implement a workable program to the advantage of your firm.

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Sirius XM's Losses In Suits on Pre-'72 Sound Recordings

Lisa Shuchman

For the third time in as many months, Sirius XM lost a court ruling over the issue of pre-1972 sound recordings. In a decision that further upsets the status quo for the music and copyright worlds, a federal judge in New York ruled that the owners of pre-1972 sound recordings have performance rights to their records, and that Sirius XM therefore infringed copyrights.

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