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Practice Tip: Tax Liabilities

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What to do when your family law clients are delinquent on their taxes.

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The Ethics and Legality of Snooping Image

The Ethics and Legality of Snooping

Philip Segal

When we tell clients we are unable to attempt a particular course of action, the reason is usually one of professional ethics or illegality. Here's a review of what we can and cannot do.

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Ethics of Settlement

Jennifer Smith Finnegan

Restraints on a lawyer's right to practice law as part of a settlement of client controversy are strictly prohibited. So how does that affect your settlement agreement?

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Women Lawyers Must Also 'Lean In' Image

Women Lawyers Must Also 'Lean In'

Kimberly Alford Rice

Explaining how women in law firms can forge on to meet their professional goals.

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Accounting Changes Could Cost Legal Industry Billions Image

Accounting Changes Could Cost Legal Industry Billions

Gina Passarella

While law firms are increasingly modeling their business practices after their clients', one they have not been interested in mimicking is the accrual method of accounting. But it may be coming.

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At the Intersection: Game Your Way to Longer Life

Pamela Woldow

A look at "personal gamification" ' how you can create stronger personal motivation and resiliency by drawing on some basic game principles.

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Five Ways to Improve Lateral Recruitment Image

Five Ways to Improve Lateral Recruitment

Timothy B. Corcoran

Here are five ideas that law firm leaders can embrace to improve their own success rate at finding and integrating laterals into their firms.

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Movers & Shakers

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

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Application of the Abuse Exclusion

Jessica F. Pardi

Based upon the complexity and risk, many sexual abuse claims result in coverage disputes.

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Update: Work-Product Doctrine

Marc S. Voses & Steven P. Nassi

Update to last month's article concerning the applicability of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine in the context of an insurer's claims investigation.

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