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In the first half of 2014, at least 96 significant data breaches were reported, compromising more than 2.2 million records. Of these breaches, at least 46 involved records that may have contained Social Security Numbers (SSNs). What the affected businesses may not know is that the mere collection of SSNs may have put them in violation of state laws, in addition to the liability they may now face for having failed to protect the SSN information.

Shouldn't we be more deliberate and questioning about the assumptions we make about clients ' in order to ensure that we don't end up with self-inflicted client relations issues? An in-depth discussion.

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When a patient takes a medication that does not at first appear to harm him but that could cause later-developing consequences, or when a medical error is made that causes no immediately measurable harm but that could lead to future injury, is a medical monitoring remedy available? The following article discusses one state high court's recent analysis of the issue.

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Franchisor's Control over System Uniformity Insufficient to Show Vicarious Liability <br>Printed Names Without Signatures Satisfy Requirement That Personal Guaranty Be Signed

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Analysis of recent news of interest to you and your practice.

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Even though lawyer management in most mid-size firms recognize the importance of developing and implementing principles of practice management as a means to insure the high quality service to clients and to improve profitability, the extent to which practice management may be implemented varies greatly from firm to firm.

Statutes of limitations are intended to protect defendants from unexpected enforcement of stale claims by plaintiffs who fail to use reasonable diligence in prosecuting their claims. However, the effects of statutes of limitations have exceptions, primarily based on equitable considerations.

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A look at what's happening in neighboring states.