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Passing the Baton
March 29, 2011
As law firms and many other professional service firms including CPAs emerge from the turbulent economic environment of the past few years, they find themselves with an ownership group that continues to age and mounting concerns on how the enterprise will find the continuity to survive and prosper into the future.
Reining in Health Care Costs
March 29, 2011
What if firms had a way to provide the same benefit protections, but at a lower cost to both the firms and their employees? Combining a high-deductible health plan with health savings accounts can do just that.
Client Trust Accounts
March 29, 2011
What steps can your firm take to reduce the risk of loss or fraud as it relates to IOLTAs? Also, what must be done to meet your state's client trust account record-keeping requirements? This article covers the basics and will help you think about what changes your firm should consider to protect against IOLTA loss or fraud.
Evolving Online Advertising Techniques
March 29, 2011
The federal government roared into March like a lion on online advertising, privacy and data'security practices, but hardly left like a lamb.
Cloud Computing Presents Challenges in e-Discovery
March 29, 2011
Cloud computing is being hailed as a next great hope for the entertainment industry, with consumers accessing content stored on third-party sites, rather than directly from the consumers' hard drives. But cloud computing is already used by many businesses, including those in the entertainment industry, to store their business records. This article examines issues in obtaining information from the cloud through litigation discovery.
Gift Plans: Death Knell or Still on Life Support?
March 22, 2011
This article focuses on whether an out-of-the-money unsecured creditor with an unliquidated claim has standing to object to a gift plan.
The Complex World of Municipal Incentives
March 17, 2011
While incentives should never be the main driver in site selection, they can make a huge difference in the overall costs for a given project.
Movers & Shakers
February 28, 2011
Who's doing what; who's going where.
Think Big Picture for Firm Pitches
February 28, 2011
At a time of great debate on traditional versus social media and the best means of contacting prospective clients, it is worth examining the essentials of successfully pitching a reporter on your law firm's news.
The Five Biggest Mistakes of Law Firm Leadership
February 28, 2011
Over the years, the author has observed many common mistakes that law firm management makes, and he now identifies the five most common ones so that they may be recognized and avoided.

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    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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  • Meet the Lawyer Working on Inclusion Rider Language
    At the Oscars in March, Best Actress winner Frances McDormand made “inclusion rider” go viral. But Kalpana Kotagal, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers &amp; Toll had already worked for months to write the language for such provisions. Kotagal was developing legal language for contract provisions that Hollywood's elite could use to require studios and other partners to employ diverse workers on set.
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