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Maintenance: How Long Is Too Long?
In New York, usually the most important factor to consider when guessing at the ultimate award is this: Which judge will get the case?
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Divorce Funding
The value of Divorce Funding for anyone facing the daunting prospect of enormous legal fees is clear; it ensures that clients can afford to litigate if necessary.
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Cognitive Encapsulation: Thinking Inside the Box
This article is the second of two that address the ways in which education, training, and experience in providing health services often creates a cognitive box from which practitioners must extricate themselves if they wish to perform forensic services.
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Professional Development: Using Social Media to Advance Your Careers and Build Business
Lawyers who are looking to advance their careers and who want to build business should not underestimate the power of using social media to raise their visibility.
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Leadership in the Law: Bring All Your Values to the Table
If you are not perceived the way you want to be perceived and are not reaching the goals you have set out to meet, you want to re-evaluate your values and determine if your personal brand needs to be tweaked, revamped or potentially overhauled.
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Business of Branding: How to Boost Your Law Firm's Brand
Every law firm needs to make a strong impression to increase its name awareness, protect and build market share and instill loyalty in its client base. What is your promise to clients?
Women Lawyers Must Also 'Lean In' to Realize Their Career Dreams
While women lawyers must work a bit smarter and harder than their male counterparts, the basics of business development apply to all. If you fail to plan, you are, in effect, planning to fail.
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The Child-Centricity of Our Matrimonial Courts
Despite amendments to statute and court rule, it remains all too common for the court to see the renamed "Attorney for the Child" as a purported "impartial" and "independent" sounding board whom the court will hear first at any conference.
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Bad News for NY Law Grads
Just six in 10 of the 4,967 students who graduated last year from New York state's 15 law schools were able to find full-time, permanent employment requiring bar passage by Feb. 15, according to recently released statistics from the American Bar Association.
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Who Should Be Partner in a Post-Recession Profession?
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, with fewer seats at the table, a successful candidate for equity partnership must demonstrate a full complement of personal and professional skills and experience.
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