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The Team Approach to Divorce
How does the professional-team approach work in the collaborative process, and can attorneys who primarily litigate employ aspects of this approach to help settle their family law cases?
Custody of Pets
Custody involves the well-being of children, and the physical and emotional bond they share with their parents. However, what do you do when parties have pets that they consider to be tantamount to children?
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Matrimonial Planning and the 2012 Tax Act
Overview of the impact of American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA) on matrimonial matters.
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The 'Losing' Side of Legal Business Trends
Although happening slowly, project management and process improvement efforts are gradually improving the efficiency of U.S. legal practice, off-setting whatever demand growth the economy would otherwise have produced.
At the Intersection: Lawyer Assessment and Client Development
The profound changes in today's legal landscape suggest that it's time to reevaluate the utility of tools that objectively describe the operative style factors that affect lawyer success and lawyer-client business relationships.
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Restrictive Covenants and Partnership Agreements
This article examines the ethics of common partnership restrictive covenants, and suggests ways for firms to ethically protect the firm's interests.
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Judicial Scrutiny of Other Insurance Clauses
When overlapping primary liability policies contain different "other insurance" clauses, approaches vary by jurisdiction and degrees of intellectual rigor.
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Insurance Claims for Solar Panel Defects
Recent reports of a quality crisis in the solar panel industry, following years of exploding growth and intense price pressure, have raised the specter of a wave of litigation.
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A Lesson from the Snowden Manhunt
A sobering lesson to everyone who makes a certification to the government: the importance of background checks.
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Compete or Enforce?
The U.S. is stepping up its criminal and civil tax enforcement in a two-pronged attack.
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