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New York Real Estate Law Reporter Is Going Digital Only. Here's What You Need to Know.
The final print edition of New York Real Estate Law Reporter will be our January issue.
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A Race Against Time: Mastering the Art of Timely Lawsuit PR
News publications want to report verdicts and judgments the day they are handed down. Waiting to contact the media until after your case is decided means you've missed numerous opportunities to publicize your great work.
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Start 2024 By Considering The Synergy Between Retirement and Succession Planning
Attorney retirement and succession planning are critical issues that are often overlooked at the management level of law firms. A key question arises: What should come first, retirement or succession planning? Although they go hand in hand, many firms avoid addressing both.
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Chambers & Partners: What's New After Sale
On Nov. 10, 2023, Abry Partners, a leading North American middle market private equity firm, announced that it had acquired Chambers & Partners for $449 million from Inflexion, the UK private equity firm that purchased Chambers in 2018. What will this mean?
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Tips to Great Legal Marketing in 2024
It's a new year and as always, the prognosticators are prognosticating, and the forecasters are forecasting. And the predictions for 2024 are all over the place.
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Marketing the Law Firm Is Going Digital Only. Here's What You Need to Know.
The final print edition of Marketing the Law Firm will be our January issue.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Patents Survive Alice?
Part One of a Two-Part Article Under the current Alice framework, those attempting to patent AI innovations face an uphill battle. But, as the caselaw demonstrates, inventors and patent drafters can take steps to reduce the risk of AI patent claims being invalidated as abstract ideas.
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Creative Expression vs. the Lanham Act: Six Months of Cases After Jack Daniel's
Last Term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Jack Daniel's v. VIP Products — a case involving interaction between the Lanham Act and the First Amendment. This article traces the lower courts' reactions and applications to that decision.
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