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Justices Write End to Authors' Challenge of Google Books
May 01, 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court ended a decade-long battle over Google, Inc.'s massive book-scanning project last month, declining to take up an appeal by authors who claimed the company violated copyright law "on an epic scale."
Millennials Approaching Partnership: Now What?
May 01, 2016
Since debuting in law firms nearly a decade ago, the latest generation of lawyers has raised more than a few eyebrows.
Virtual Visitation Revisited
May 01, 2016
Today, with high-speed Internet and Wi-Fi options, many parents and children can use ever-advancing technology that allows them to communicate with each other using "face technologies." Have the courts caught up to this concept?
Lead-Paint Claims in VT and GA
May 01, 2016
Thirty years after its introduction, the absolute pollution exclusion continues to be the subject of vigorous litigation, recently reaching the supreme courts of Vermont and Georgia.
Seven Ways for Law Firms to Improve Client Service
May 01, 2016
Question: Do law firms really need to please clients all of the time? Answer: Of course not. Only work to please those clients you wish to keep.
This Very Curious Real Estate Cycle
May 01, 2016
Every commercial real estate cycle is basically the same ' including that point, somewhere in the mid to end of the cycle, at which people become convinced that this one will be different for some specific reason. And here we are at that point again.
Checklist and Commentary on Defenses for Right of Publicity Claims
May 01, 2016
This article is Part Two of a two-part series. Part One appeared in the April issue of <i>Entertainment Law &amp; Finance</i>. Part Two starts with a continuation of the author's discussion of First Amendment defenses to right of publicity claims.
Ethics and Criminal Practice
May 01, 2016
Social media can be used to reveal personal communications, provide location information, prove and disprove alibis, establish crime or criminal enterprise and show instrumentalities or fruits of a crime. But there is no one rule of professional conduct that addresses what a lawyer can advise a client concerning the use of social media.
The Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment
May 01, 2016
Although in many states the covenant of quiet enjoyment is implied in a commercial real estate lease, a landlord can limit its responsibilities and reduce its exposure by narrowing the scope of the covenant in the lease agreement.
Landlord & Tenant
May 01, 2016
Analysis of a case involving an action by a landlord for a judgment declaring that the landlord was entitled to an accounting of the tenant's gross sales,

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