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Federal Courts Continue to Decide California Anti-SLAPP Motions, Despite Criticism Image

Federal Courts Continue to Decide California Anti-SLAPP Motions, Despite Criticism

Stan Soocher

Ninth Circuit federal appeals court Chief Judge Alex Kozinski recently questioned whether federal courts should hear motions to strike under California's "ant-SLAPP" statute. He wrote that the state statute "cuts an ugly gash through" the "integrated program of pre-trial, trial and post-trial procedures" set out in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

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Change to Grow, Lead to Change

Brian Schnell

Many franchise executives spend most, if not all, of their time working in their businesses and their franchise systems. They have few opportunities to get together with other franchise executives and exchange best practice ideas and solutions for their major challenges.

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Court Watch

Michael W. Tyler

The Instrumentality Test For Determining Franchisor Vicarious Liability

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Third Circuit Keeps Objective Standard to Weigh Facebook Threats

Saranac Hale Spencer

Prompted by a case involving threats made on Facebook, the Third Circuit has ruled the objective-intent standard for assessing threats still stands.

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Considerations When Engaging in Internet Marketing

Tracy A. Finken

In this day and age, most law firms have a website and use the Internet as a large part of their overall marketing scheme. However, the ethical considerations are plentiful and not always clear-cut. Even if your firm utilizes a Web developer or marketing firm, it is ultimately the lawyer's responsibility to ensure that his or her Internet marketing is compliant with the applicable rules of professional conduct and state law.

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Financial Considerations That Involve Your Partnership Agreement

Ed Poll

Becoming a firm partner has long been the unquestioned goal of most lawyers. But in today's large law firms, with many hundreds of partners, is this still a desirable goal when a given partner's voice may have little influence over the direction of the firm, and when a partner's income is determined by a "compensation committee" that lacks transparency?

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Combating Big Data with a 'Facts First' Approach to e-Discovery

Scott Giordano

The ability to quickly identify relevant electronically stored information when litigation or regulatory action arises. This challenge has been significantly exacerbated by the arrival of "Big Data." This problem must be addressed holistically and aggressively with a combination of human intelligence, legal process and advanced information retrieval technology. Taken together, this approach represents a "Facts First" intelligence-gathering methodology that allows legal teams to identify, analyze and defensibly reduce ESI volumes.

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10 Proven Strategies To Effectively Implement the Two-tier Partner Structure

Joel A. Rose

This article describes 10 proven strategies that we have recommended to clients to effectively implement the two-tier partner structure.

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In the News

Howard Shire & Joseph Mercadante

Federal Circuit Nixes Insurance Claims Under Section 101 <br>Federal Circuit: Clarification of Injunction Terms Not Appealable

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ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse Sees Slow Initial Take-up Image

ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse Sees Slow Initial Take-up

Jan Corstens

Later this year, the Internet is set to undergo a series of new and drastic changes with the first rollout of hundreds of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). However, there is still a significant lack of participation from many top businesses that have yet to register and, as a result, are at greater risk of intellectual property infringement and potentially putting consumers at risk as well.

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