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Verdicts
Should changed rules thwart a plaintiff's claim? Analysis and discussion.
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Managing Credit During and After Divorce
All the steps to keeping your clients financially healthy, during and after divorce.
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Identity Theft and Taxes
In 2013, 13.1 million people were victims of some sort of identity theft. Often, you may think of identity theft as being confined to credit card or ATM fraud, yet there is an epidemic of fraudulent electronically filed tax returns. Identity-related tax fraud is the third-largest theft of federal funds after Medicare/Medicaid and unemployment insurance fraud.
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30-Day Plan to Success
Fully focused women rainmakers assess what needs to be done, and then set about doing it. Instead of "breaking a glass ceiling," they build a new facility with a new ceiling. For them, "no" is not an option and fear is left in the dust.
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Parental Disciplinary Techniques
Parental use of disciplinary techniques is an important area for child custody assessment. Few evaluators, however, conduct the kind of in-depth examinations that shed light on the parents' use of disciplinary techniques and those techniques' effects on their children.
Media & Communications: Sound Social Media Strategies
An audit can help a law firm dipping into social media craft a bespoke plan that will drive business and provide experienced firms with a review of what's working, what's not, and why.
Cooperatives & Condominiums
A condominium's assessments for capital improvements was at the core of the case discussed herein.
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Landlord & Tenant
Analysis of two important rulings.
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Rap Music Plays Role in First Amendment Case
The musical tastes of several U.S. Supreme Court justices run toward opera. But as the start of its fall term approached, the court was getting an intense education in another genre: the rhythmic, slangy ' sometimes violent ' poetry of rap music.
Are Your Marketing Efforts Being Sabotaged?
Have you checked under your law firm's proverbial "hood" lately to make sure your marketing engine is runnig smoothly? You should. Some law firms of late are actually sabotaging their own business development efforts.
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