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Are You a Marketing Commitment Phobe?
Are your business development mindset, attitude and efforts working for you? Tips on overcoming your "marketing commitment phobia."
Ethically Terminating an Attorney-Client Relationship
Law firms should carefully review their engagement letters to ensure they specify permissible grounds for terminating the attorney-client relationship and outline how the client file will be handled upon conclusion of the matter.
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A Useful Tool for Global Employers
For the benefit of global companies with operations in Germany, this article explores how "short-time work" can be introduced, and which rules must be observed in order to qualify for associated government grants.
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Cross-Border Employment and Forum Selection Clauses
Many multinational employers negotiate choice-of-law and choice-of-forum provisions that select one jurisdiction's laws or forum over another. A recent decision affirmed that process.
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Religious Discrimination Claim
In a recent decision, the Maryland District Court considered, and rejected, a claim of religious discrimination filed by a former social worker at Genesis Healthcare-Franklin Wood Center (Genesis).
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How to Survive the Whistleblower Epidemic
Regardless of whether an employer is publicly traded or subject to the Dodd-Frank Act, the media attention on whistleblowing and the public awareness created by the statute has increased the whistleblower pressure in all employment settings.
Landlords' Liens and Waivers
The landlord's lien may be created either by contract under the terms of the lease or through operation of law, and allows the landlord to levy the property located at the demised premises of a tenant who has failed to pay rent.
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Blue Penciling
Some courts have started to change, amend, or revise unreasonable terms in noncompete agreements to render them enforceable. This practice has become generally described as "Blue Penciling."
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Tougher Revised UK Bribery Act Policies
In a development that took some by surprise, on Oct. 9, 2012, the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) issued new policies under the Bribery Act 2010, which could change the way some companies do business.
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Tools and Techniques for Defensibly Processing Electronic Data
Pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, if the parties to litigation fail to take reasonable steps to assure that relevant, non-privileged data is produced to opposing parties in response to discovery requests, courts may impose sanctions and may instruct juries to draw an adverse inference. Consequently, parties to litigation must take special care to adhere to defensible standards and practices when processing electronic data, especially since the overwhelming majority of information generated by…
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