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Protecting Law Firms from Increasing Cyberattacks

Peter F. Vaira

Cyberattacks are increasing at a startling rate in the business community, not only by hackers for personal intellectual skullduggery, but cyberattacks aimed at obtaining sensitive information. Law firms have become major targets of these illegal attacks, which are aimed at discovering and pilfering the entire subject matter of a commercial operation.

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Planning a Merger? Avoid Pitfalls through Proper Due Diligence Image

Planning a Merger? Avoid Pitfalls through Proper Due Diligence

Steven A. Davis & Marc Feigelson

After reaching an all-time high in 2013, the pace of U.S. law firm mergers and acquisitions is showing no signs of slowing down. With all of these deals in the news of late, you may be considering whether a merger or acquisition might be an appropriate growth strategy for your firm.

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Exhibits: Details and Timing

Steven J. Roberts

The first part of this article discussed the purpose of, need for and some of the items included in, the exhibits to a lease. The conclusion herein addresses finalizing the lease and the exhibits.

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Litigating Awareness: Non-Economic Damages and the Unconscious Plaintiff

Roseann Lynn Brenner & Gary M. Every

In most medical negligence cases, the most difficult damages for an attorney to forecast are non-economic ones such as pain and suffering, and loss of enjoyment of life. This difficulty arises from the nature of the damages themselves ' pain, suffering and enjoyment are inherently subjective experiences.

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EU Data Protection Reforms Update

Andr' Bywater

E-commerce counsel would do well to familiarize themselves with the ongoing process of reforms to the EU data protection rules due to their eventual compliance impact and because they constitute more than a simple upgrade to the existing rules.

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Surviving the Medical Malpractice Claim

Kevin M. Quinley

Successful defense of a medical malpractice case is a team effort. While the defendant physician is the focal point, a key team member is the defense attorney who will defend the physician and the standard of care exhibited in the case.

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Quarterly State Compliance Review

Sandra Feldman

This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect between May 1 and July 1, 2014 as well as some recent cases of note.

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IP Due Diligence

Michael McGurk & W. Caroline Chen

Despite some significant hurdles, outside counsel can conduct a comprehensive due diligence analysis and deliver a sufficient result-driven analysis without disclosing any confidential information from the disclosing party.

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Big Data and Regulation

John. H. Walsh

Big data has taken the world by storm. From its origins as a technical solution for Internet search engines and online retail sales, it has spread across business, science and now government. Big data tools have shown extraordinary power to quickly sort and analyze data, both structured and unstructured. Ultimately, the power of big data resides in its ability to identify signals or patterns in vast data sets.

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Ninth Circuit's Novel Ruling that Copyrights In Masters Can Be Sold to Satisfy Legal Fees Image

Ninth Circuit's Novel Ruling that Copyrights In Masters Can Be Sold to Satisfy Legal Fees

Stan Soocher

Chasing clients for legal fees can be a complex matter, and the Clinton recording masters dispute has as many twists and turns as the polyrhythms on a funk track.

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