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What Employers Need to Know About Employee Privacy
Many employers struggle with not only identifying what is private protectable information, but also how to safeguard that information while also protecting the company's own business interests. Given the increased costs of litigation, it is critical that employers understand their obligations under the law and how to strike a legally compliant balance between these competing interests.
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Sensory Designed Hospitality: Enhancing Workplace Experience Through the Five Senses
Organizations understand that their workplace environment reflects the culture of their organization and are making extraordinary changes to their real estate and fundamental differences in their office operations. But is it working?
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Biotech Industry Bankruptcy Case Update: 'Zymergen' and 'Humanigen'
This Bankruptcy Case Update focuses on the recent biotech industry bankruptcy cases of Zymergen and Humanigen.
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California DOJ's Mission: Reinvigorate Criminal Prosecutions Program
California hasn't brought a case for criminal antitrust violations in more than 20 years. But that's about to change, according to California Assistant Attorney General Paula Blizzard.
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Players On the Move
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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Real Property Law
Contract Language Does Not Bar Purchaser's Recovery of Prejudgment Interest
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Intellectual Property In Legal Tech: Lessons from Recent Cases
As technology continues to permeate the legal industry, the significance of IP in safeguarding innovations, ensuring fair competition, and fostering a culture of creative legal solutions becomes paramount.
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Mixed-Use Is Sector Is the Post-Pandemic Choice for Commercial Real Estate Developers
The trinity at the core of traditional mixed-use projects — office, retail and residential — rapidly is evolving to bring a wide variety of project-specific uses to mixed-use development projects.
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Do Gen Xers and Millennials Make Good Law Firm Leaders?
Generation X lawyers stand poised to wield considerable influence. Gen X has always served as a bridge — between tradition and innovation, the old and the new. Unlike their predecessors who were more comfortable with tradition and a stare decisis mindset, they infuse a sense of flexibility and agility into management strategies.
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So Far In 2024, Law Firms Are Using Bankruptcy As a Springboard for Profit
With broad hopes for countercyclical consistency and a nearly 120% uptick in Chapter 11 filings in February specifically, law firms seem ready to use restructuring work as a significant plank in a profitable 2024.
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