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Insurance Coverage In Trademark Disputes

Milton Springut

On Aug. 20, 2014, summary judgment was granted to the plaintiff insurance company, upholding its denial of coverage to indemnify judgments in two trademark counterfeiting cases. <i>United States Fidelity &amp; Guarantee v. Ashley Reed Trading.</i> The opinion provides insight to trademark practitioners about insurance coverage and provides information about strategies for trademark owners' enforcement efforts.

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Equity Joint Ventures

Matthew Churchill & Allain Andry

When a client seeks representation on an equity joint venture, there are eight primary structural considerations that provide the framework for documenting the venture: 1) initial capital contributions; 2) future capital needs; 3) cash distribution waterfall; 4) governance; 5) transfers; 6) exit rights; 7) restrictive covenants; and 8) affiliate transactions.

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Do We Need #consent?

Jesse M. Brody & Suemyra A. Shah

While numerous companies now maintain an active presence on Twitter, the extent to which brands can lawfully interact with other Twitter users for advertising and similar commercial purposes is still not yet clearly defined and, consequently, the legal risk associated with each tweet is not always properly weighed before a promotional social media campaign is launched.

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Strategic Contract Management to Maximize Net Revenue

Jeff Catanzaro & Robin Snasdell

Strategic contract management and the deployment of the right supporting technology can mitigate issues and help organizations extract maximum value from their contracts.

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Litigant Preparation by Mental Health Professionals

David A. Martindale

There are both tactical and ethical reasons to refrain from having litigants prepared for evaluations by forensic mental health consultants. Here's why.

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How One Firm Tracked an Oligarch and Billions in Fraud

Michael D. Goldhaber

For five years, a team at international law firm Hogan Lovells tracked the wild financial peregrinations of a Kazakh oligarch suspected of running a $10 billion fraud. But this is more than a cloak-and-dagger story.

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Going Digital ' With Signatures

John Marchioni

ALM research indicates that 52% of surveyed corporate counsel and small, medium and large firms are either already using an electronic signature solution or plan to implement one in the next 12 months.

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Social Media Invades and Modernizes Employment Practices

Morey Raiskin & Celeste Thacker

While there are not currently any laws in the United States forbidding employers from gleaning information from social media ' whether during the hiring process or at any point in the employment relationship ' improper use can get them into trouble.

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Changing the Law Firm Business Model

William C. Cobb

If a law firm wants to conform to a client's need for responsiveness in the new competitive environment, big changes are required in its business model and, culturally, lawyers need to recognize that other professionals are better at certain tasks than lawyers.

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Rocket Matter Case Study

Steve Senentz

Each system reviewed had features that raised the interest of at least one of our testers. Overall though, the most effective criteria we applied was: "Does it work for us?" Did the product function as promised and fit with the way our users envisioned themselves using the system? And I must emphasize the word envisioned because this move was such a departure for some that it was unlike anything they had experienced before. Ultimately, we determined that system to be Rocket Matter.

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