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ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Analysis of two key cases.

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Energy Conservation in Land Use Practice

John R. Nolon

By enforcing and enhancing energy codes, encouraging the use of combined heat and power and district energy systems, properly orienting and commissioning buildings, and incorporating renewable energy resources, we can unlock local land use law's potential to achieve energy conservation.

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Career Journal: Network to Success

Michael DeCosta

Job search should be as much a part of your ongoing career management as aspirations for promotion, more responsibility, and increased compensation at your current employer. In essence, you should always be looking, if not actually taking, your next job.

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Sales Speak: Keys to Business Development Success

Allan Colman

Profitable firms invest in long-range marketing capabilities; that is, they take a view of the desired end result, land new work, and incorporate these goals into their support systems.

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Professional Development: Holding the Whistle Doesn't Make You a Coach

Darryl Cross

Many leaders fall into the trap of thinking that by managing the results, they are concurrently coaching their people on how to develop and sustain business. This is not the case.

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Marketing Tech: Going Mobile

Greg Sutphin

Why and how to get your firm's mobile website ready as quickly as possible.

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The Rights and Treatment of Non-Debtor Contract Counterparties in Bankruptcy

Adam L. Rosen & Christopher J. Rubino

This article discusses how counterparties, as well as courts, react to situations where a counterparty seeks protection from the risks inherent in continued performance under a Contract with a debtor in bankruptcy.

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Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Who's doing what; who's going where.

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Another Brick in the Wall: Application of the Pollution Exclusion to Chinese Drywall Claims

Daren S. McNally & Matthew I. Gennaro

The Supreme Court of Virginia recently held that insurance coverage for Chinese drywall claims could be denied under a pollution exclusion. As the first state supreme court to rule on the issue, the Virginia Supreme Court's analysis, as set forth in its ground-breaking decision, could potentially be followed by other courts in Chinese drywall coverage litigation and create a significant hurdle to policyholders seeking coverage.

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Disparagement By Implication: Does an Insurer Owe a Duty to Defend?

Chet A. Kronenberg & Colin H. Rolfs

Two conflicting California appellate court decisions issued this year highlight the difficulty of determining when an insurer owes a duty to defend disparagement by implication claims. This article discusses the two divergent California decisions, as well as fact patterns that courts have generally agreed are (and are not) implied disparagement claims triggering an insurer's duty to defend

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