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Metrics, Metrics, What Are the Metrics?
This article provides financial metrics that are simple, clear and concise, and that any firm can adopt.
Columns & Departments
Career Journal: Behavioral-based Interviewing
A look at behavioral-based interviewing techniques and how they work.
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Cross-border Integration in the Wake of a Merger
When law firms merge, marketing department members are often faced with an enormous task list for the months leading up to and beyond the combination. A look at one such merger.
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Relearning the Learned Intermediary Doctrine
Although the learned intermediary doctrine dictates that a drug manufacturer's duty to warn is owed to the doctor, rather than the patient, informing the doctor of the risks may not always be sufficient to guard against liability.
Three Key Issues Surrounding Partner Compensation
A firm seeking long-term success must recognize that all partners bring strengths and weaknesses to the process of creating revenue, and the firm must balance the various needed contributions of partners to create a fair compensation system.
Features
Practice Tip: Avoiding Federal Jurisdiction in Mass Actions
How can a plaintiff overcome the removal of a case by the forum defendant? A look at what needs to be done.
Features
To Call or Not to Call
This article briefly examines the controversial topic of ex parte contacts, and describes how such contacts were successfully employed to obtain summary judgment in two separate cases pending within the Aredia'/Zometa' mass tort litigation.
Insurance Coverage for Cyber Attacks
Last month, Part One of this article addressed the role of traditional insurance in covering cyber risks. This second installment first continues the discussion of traditional insurance coverages and then addresses specialty "cyber" policies.
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Decisions of Interest
In-depth analysis of several recent rulings.
Columns & Departments
NJ & CT News
What's happening in neighboring states.
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