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Practice Tip: After the Love Is Gone

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In heated divorce cases, the four-way conference is a great tool that can serve as a mechanism for settling your case, as long as you are organized and prepared.

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FL Supreme Court Overturns Statutory Cap on Non-Economic Damages

Michael D. Brophy

In a long-awaited decision, the Florida Supreme Court has held that the Florida statutory cap on wrongful death noneconomic damages violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Florida State Constitution.

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How to Reduce Litigation Costs In the EDRM Continuum

Ann Grayson & Jim Norman

The amount of data a company generates grows with each passing day. It is important to develop strategies to reduce the amount of data subject to discovery obligations while staying current with legal and technology trends. A strong partnership with a vendor and law firm using sophisticated data review and collection techniques is essential to navigating the discovery minefield in a cost-effective way that is also defensible and fully documented.

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Enforcing Forum- Selection Clauses

J.T. Westermeier

Forum-selection clauses are commonly used in agreements for e-commerce websites. These clauses represent a very important risk management provision. On Dec. 3, 2013, in a 9-0 decision written by Justice Alito, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a very significant ruling relating to the proper procedures for enforcing forum-selection clauses. In this article, we will discuss these procedures.

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Application of the Abuse Exclusion: Recent Developments

Jessica F. Pardi

Claims of sexual abuse and molestation frequently contain high-dollar demands. Based upon the complexity and risk, many sexual abuse claims result in coverage disputes.

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Marketing Tech: Are Content Analytics the Next Big Thing?

Keith Ecker

It is no surprise that technology vendors are starting to develop software that crunches a variety of statistics in order to spit out metrics that law firm marketers can use to benchmark their success.

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Parallel Criminal Investigations

Jonathan B. New & Brian F. Allen

Navigating through the competing demands of civil discovery and mounting a criminal defense poses unique challenges and potential landmines for corporate counsel.

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How Torys Updated Its Intake Processes and Systems

Grace Emanuele

In 2008 we began actively looking for a new system that would allow our lawyers and staff to easily enter all of the required pieces of information about potential new clients. We wanted a system that could create a central repository for that information and integrate seamlessly with our financial and document management systems. CorpIntake has helped us to dramatically cut down the amount of time it takes to open new matters, comply with regulations and keep all of our information in a central location.

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Consumer Groups Decry FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal

Jenna Greene

Consumer advocates reacted with dismay to reports that the FCC plans to allow Internet service providers to charge companies a toll for faster access, while FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler defended the proposed rules as consistent with the underlying goals of net neutrality.

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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> Justices Wary of Broad Authority for Cellphone Searches

Tony Mauro

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 29 appeared reluctant to give police sweeping authority to search the full contents of smartphones without first obtaining a search warrant from a judge.

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