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Social Media Scene: Creating a Blogging Strategy When Blogging Isn't Your Business Image

Social Media Scene: Creating a Blogging Strategy When Blogging Isn't Your Business

Stephan Hovnanian

Chances are that if you have started marketing yourself online, then you have a blog (or were told to have a blog). Here is what you need to know.

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Case Notes

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Discussion of two major rulings.

Features

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Commercial Alternative Lending

Robert J. Rinaldi

An impressive amount of attention and money have been foisted upon the relatively nascent alternative finance market. Is it good or bad?

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Immigration Status

Theodore (Ted) Ruthizer & Mark D. Koestler

To provide clarity to employers as to permissible questions that may be posed to prospective employees, the authors list the most common questions that corporate clients ask ' and provide recommendations.

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Supreme Court Preserves Fraud-On-the-Market Presumption in Securities Fraud Litigation

Eric Rieder

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited decision in <I>Halliburton v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc.</I>, and the result was very much in line with the forecasts of those who predicted a kind of split decision.

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The Scope and Limits of Article 9

Frank Peretore

A discussion of the three major categories of personal property liens excluded from Article 9, in whole or in part.

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If You're Not on Facebook, You're Committing Malpractice

Josh King

Imagine you're cross-examining a witness about a phone call, but you've never used a telephone before. Ridiculous, right? But is it any different than wading into a new client matter where social media communications are at issue without having ever used social media?

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Insurance Coverage Disputes over Data Breaches

Ellen Farrell & Kathryn Linsky

Each day, businesses become progressively more dependent on computers and the Internet to gather, store and protect information. But, as sophisticated as this technology may be, it has also proven to be susceptible to breaches, which have time and again resulted in the unauthorized access of confidential information.

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Employee Departures and Data Loss

Scott Giordano

There are numerous ways to lose or fail to identify employee electronically stored information that could reasonably be relevant to litigation or a subpoena, and it seems that new sources appear regularly.

Features

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Surviving the Medical Malpractice Claim

Kevin M. Quinley

When a doctor or other health care provider learns that he or she is the subject of a medical malpractice suit, one of the first things the defendant will want to do is find the most top-flight legal representation possible. But how can the physician know which defense attorney is the right one for the case?

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