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Embedding Compliance

Jeffrey Hessekiel & Alex Toy

The year 2012 was another banner year for Department of Justice (DOJ) officials charged with prosecuting corporate enforcement actions. The DOJ recovered $4.9 billion from False Claims Act cases, the most ever in a single year.

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Chancellor Strine Creates Path for Business Judgment Rule Review of Controlling Stockholder-Led Buyouts

Robert S. Reder

Dealmakers and their legal advisers have an important choice to make when structuring a controlling stockholder-led buyout.

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Suits Against Generic Pharm Manufacturers

Janice G. Inman

What a recent Supreme Court decision does is to effectively immunize pharmaceutical generics manufacturers from state tort liability when they use FDA-approved labels for their products deemed equivalent to brand-name FDA-approved drugs.

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Building the Family Law Practice

Les Altenberg

When it comes to family law, specialization is the key.

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U.S. Tax Court Trumps State Family Court

Julia Swain

Family law judges and lawyers need to be aware that in assigning the dependency exemption to a non-custodial parent, Form 8332 releasing the exemption must be secured from the custodial parent.

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Retained Corporate Earnings in a Dissolution of Marriage Proceeding

Eric Schulman

Recent case law in Illinois raises the question of how to proceed with discovery and with establishing your case if you are confronted with an issue of retained earnings involving a non-marital business.

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The Supreme Court and Same-sex Marriage

Frank Gulino

In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two historic decisions involving the issue of same-sex marriage.

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Social Networking Abuse and Its Impact on Contemporary Family Law Practice

Mark A. Momjian

Technology used in the context of separation and divorce is not always of the facilitating variety. To the contrary, family court judges and lawyers frequently observe how technology is used as a weapon.

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BYOD on the Rise at Law Firms

Jonathan Lieberman

Cloud computing has spawned a rise in companies encouraging employees to "bring your own device" (BYOD) to work, and it's a trend on the rise at law firms. Here's what you need to know.

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Media & Communications: So You Hired a PR Firm

Nicholas Gaffney & Zach Olsen

Once the theoretical value of hiring a PR firm is agreed upon, and some level of buy-in is attained from the partners, legal marketers are often left with a troubling question: Now what?

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