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Practice Building Skills: Marketing Kryptonite That Will Overcome Attorney Objections
June 26, 2009
According to the author: Yes, you can win an argument with an attorney and get your marketing initiative approved, if you present the right data to get your point across.
Client Speak: Is the Burden of AFA Here to Stay?
June 26, 2009
The recent dramatic downturn has created something relatively unknown to law firms: the "insistent buyers' market" (or "ibm"), wherein all the pent-up frustrations of the past have suddenly found a voice and now have to be confronted and no longer ignored.
Media & Communications Corner: Don't Send That Release (over the Wire)
June 26, 2009
Law firms and other businesses devote a huge amount time, effort and money to creating and promoting "news" via press releases. But are they worth the time and money?
Career Journal: Reinventing the Interview
June 26, 2009
Despite their interviewing success historically, candidates for legal marketing positions are more likely to be facing a higher level of scrutiny on multiple fronts that could easily trip up an otherwise strong interviewer's performance.
For Women in Law, 'Business Development Is Key'
June 26, 2009
A recent survey of women in law firms found that ' unsurprisingly ' women are concentrated at the lower levels of law firms. That wasn't news to Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi, who three years ago helped to found the Women In Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), a lecture series that focuses on helping women become firm leaders.
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June 24, 2009
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
Two Federal Courts Reject Medical Monitoring Class Actions
June 24, 2009
Recently, two federal courts rejected certification in three putative "medical monitoring" class actions that were brought against E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company in West Virginia and New Jersey. These are significant rulings in the still developing field of "medical monitoring," and indicate the limits of class certification based on medical monitoring theories of recovery
Proposed Amendments to Federal Rules Would Limit Expert Witness Disclosures
June 24, 2009
Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure incentivizes a party's attorney to get creative in his efforts to prevent disclosure of his communications with the party's expert ... The results of the rule have been costly and often lead to the discovery of information that is only marginally relevant to any genuine issue in dispute.
NJ Judge Won't Certify Class Action By Vioxx Users
June 24, 2009
In March, an Atlantic County, NJ, judge denied a request to certify a class action against Merck & Co. on behalf of consumers for their out-of-pocket expenses for the painkiller Vioxx, which was withdrawn from the market in 2004 after a medical study linked it to heart disease.
Practice Tip: Reducing Product Liability Litigation Costs
June 24, 2009
This article poses ten questions in-house corporate counsel should ask themselves when they are preparing to defend a case and are in the process of retaining outside counsel.

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