LJN Newsletters

  • Movers & Shakers

    John B. Sivertsen has joined Ranstad North America as its associate general counsel.

    October 02, 2013ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • It's a Licensee Eats Licensee World. Or Is It?

    With the predominance of Internet marketing now continuously eroding what might be considered the traditional geographic "territories" of different licensees, the potential for conflict only becomes more acute.

    October 02, 2013Scott J. Slavick

  • U.S. Supreme Ct. Asked to Consider Laches Issue in Raging Bull Case

    Frank "Peter" Petrella helped world middleweight champion Jake LaMotta teach actor Robert De Niro how to box for the Academy Award-winning film Raging Bull. Now Petrella's daughter is taking those fight lessons into a different arena ' the U.S. Supreme Court.

    October 02, 2013Marcia Coyle

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

    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.

    October 02, 2013Stan Soocher

  • Change to Grow, Lead to Change

    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.

    October 02, 2013Brian Schnell

  • Court Watch

    The Instrumentality Test For Determining Franchisor Vicarious Liability

    October 02, 2013Michael W. Tyler

  • Considerations When Engaging in Internet Marketing

    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.

    October 02, 2013Tracy A. Finken

  • Financial Considerations That Involve Your Partnership Agreement

    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?

    October 02, 2013Ed Poll

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

    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.

    October 02, 2013Scott Giordano