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Professional Development: Client CLE: A Value-Added Activity

Sharon Meit Abrahams

One value-added activity that any lawyer can offer is no-cost continuing legal education (CLE) programs for clients. Here's how to do it.

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Marketing Tech: Seven Criteria for Evaluating Your Law Firm's SEO

Melanie Trudeau

Even though SEO is a highly technical aspect of your law firm marketing strategy, it shouldn't be ignored. Here's why.

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Career Journal: What Are Your 'Pet Peeves'?

Eva Wisnik

What do your team members do that drives you crazy? Why you should compile a list.

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Law Firm Mergers Are Growing, Again!

Bob Gero

Our industry most likely will surpass the record 70 mergers reached in 2008. With theinflux of laterals, legal marketers can play an integral role in the new attorneys' success.

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When Med Mal and Mass Tort Claims Overlap

Jonathan B. Acklen

Med Mal defense attorneys must also be aware of the potential overlap between malpractice claims and mass tort claims.

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NJ's Offer of Judgment Rule

Gary L. Riveles & Cyndee L. Allert

The Offer of Judgment Rule (the Rule) is a near universal concept that exists in most jurisdictions. Its However, in its current application, at least in New Jersey, it is ineffectual and pragmatically only available to plaintiffs.

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In-Hospital Falls

Robert Sanfilippo & John Ratkowitz

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year one in every three "older adults" (65 years and older) falls. According to the CDC's report, in 2010, approximately 21,000 older adults died from unintentional fall injuries. The most common fall-related injuries were fractures of the spine, hip, forearm, leg, ankle, pelvis, upper arm, and hand.

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Client Feedback

Jim Durham

Every touch point a client has with a firm, including support staff, can contribute meaningfully to client satisfaction ' or dissatisfaction.

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New Opportunities in the Legal Industry

Silvia L. Coulter

Should law firms hire professional sales people?

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MA Court: Chapter 93A Liability Survives Defense Verdict

Kim V. Marrkand & Alec Zadek

Even after a favorable jury verdict, defendants may face exposure to liability under the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, M.G.L. c. 93A ("Chapter 93A").

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    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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