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Technology in Marketing: Developing a Team-Authored Blog
July 29, 2010
Publishing a blog can be time-consuming for an individual attorney when done right. One solution: Publish a blog in collaboration with other attorneys in the same practice area.
Valuable Lessons from This Great Recession
July 29, 2010
Despite posting profits in 2009, some firms still grapple with how to engender more rainmakers from their attorney pool to spread the business generation responsibility more evenly.
The Place to Network: The Art and Practice of Blogging
July 29, 2010
Blogs have proven to be an effective tactic to establish subject matter expertise, and the Internet search engines can help reach a target audience on a scale that other networking tactics, and traditional publishing venues, may not.
10 Questions for Kim Eisler
July 29, 2010
Nick Gaffney, a partner at Infinite Public Relations in San Francisco, recently had an exclusive interview with Mr. Kim Eisler, author of "Masters of the Game: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm."
Announcing The Sixth Annual MLF 50
July 29, 2010
Criteria for selection in this highly coveted listing.
Employer's Review of Text Messages on Company Pager Reasonable
July 29, 2010
In a closely watched case and in a nearly unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that the City of Ontario, CA, Police Department did not violate the Fourth Amendment privacy rights of its employee when it audited text messages he had sent and received on a department-issued paging device.
DOL: Same-Sex Partners May Qualify For FMLA Leave
July 29, 2010
In an Opinion Letter issued on June 22, 2010, the U.S. Dept. of Labor (DOL) clarified who may be a parent under the Family and Medical Leave Act, including same-sex domestic partners who stand <i>in loco parentis</i> to a child.
Employers Beware
July 29, 2010
Employee mobility, coupled with the exceeding ease with which confidential and proprietary trade secret information can be stored and transported, creates the perfect platform for trade secret theft. And it's not just a hypothetical problem.
Supreme Court Blockbuster Decision
July 29, 2010
On June 24, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in <i>New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB</i>, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board (does not have the authority to issue decisions without at least three members currently sitting on the Board. The decision invalidates in one fell swoop some 600 decisions that had been issued by the Board during a recent 27-month period in which the Board had only two members.
Valuing Payments in Lieu of WARN Notice
July 29, 2010
Employers often fail to take into account all elements of compensation and benefits when valuing payments in lieu of notice. This article addresses certain elements of such payments that are often overlooked.

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