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John Travolta Denied Dismissal of Suit By His Former Pilot
It will take more than an anti-SLAPP motion to bring down a suit filed against John Travolta by the movie star's former pilot, the California Court of Appeal, Second District ruled.
Entitlement to a Credit for a Settlement Reached in Another Jurisdiction
This article addresses the dynamics of New Jersey's Collateral Source doctrine and defendant physician's entitlement to a credit for a settlement that a plaintiff reached in another jurisdiction.
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New Capabilities Allow More TAR Use In e-Discovery Tasks
Recent advances in technology assisted review (what I call "TAR 2.0") include the ability to deal with low richness, rolling collections, and flexible inputs in addition to vast improvements in speed. These improvements now allow TAR to be used effectively in many more discovery workflows than its traditional "TAR 1.0" use in classifying large numbers of documents for production.
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Immigration Compliance
With the dire and obvious need for immigration reform and the equally obvious slow move toward adopting a comprehensive solution, some companies choose to put immigration compliance on the back burner. Bad idea.
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Prior Documents May Affect a New Lease
Always check to make sure prior documents signed by your client do not affect the new lease you are about to finalize. An attorney who fails to heed this warning may be unintentionally ignoring restrictions or prohibitions contained in these prior agreements and expose his/her client to unnecessary litigation by parties seeking to enforce such contracts.
Ethics of Settlement: Restricting Plaintiff's Counsel from Representing Future Claimants
Rules of professional conduct of all 50 states include an express prohibition against a lawyer participating in making ' or even offering ' an agreement in which restriction on a lawyer's right to practice law is part of the settlement of a client controversy. A look at a hypothetical case.
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Med Mal News
Discussion of two major cases.
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Second Circuit Limits Abuse of Conservation Easements
Conservation easements provide an attractive mechanism for preserving open spaces and historic buildings. Although some landowners undoubtedly create conservation easements out of pure altruism, tax advantages play a significant role in the creation of most conservation easements. .
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Adopting Information Governance in Small and Midsized Firms
The law firm records management industry has been evolving to an information governance framework. The records function within the firm has traditionally been more of a back-end function, with the idea that everything was created in paper, made into an official record, indexed and hopefully regulated by retention schedules.
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Divorce in the Red Zone
In cases involving divorce financial planners, red zones are legal and financial coordination points between the attorney and the planner ' the latter bringing a broad financial perspective to the case that compliments the attorney's legal perspective.
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