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Partner Compensation
December 26, 2013
Objective financial factors are easy to measure ' but they should not be the only considerations in determining partner compensation.
On the Move
December 20, 2013
Who's going where; who's doing what.
Concurrent Rights Offerings by Chapter 11 Debtors
December 20, 2013
A look at the Section 1145 exemption in relation to a major case.
Partner Compensation
November 30, 2013
How do you determine partner compensation at your law firm? You certainly look at each partner's originations, working attorney receipts and billable hours. But what about his or her excellent client service, strong leadership, successful staff development efforts and keen technical skills?
Emergence of State Initiatives Could Change Franchising
November 30, 2013
In the last two years, many state legislatures have considered new franchise laws. Few of these bills have been passed or enacted, but some of the bills represent the potential for significant changes in treatment of franchising as a unique business model and of the franchisor-franchisee relationship. At the very least, franchisors need to be more aware of state legislators' interest in franchising than in the past.
The Myths of Legal Hold Notification
November 27, 2013
Organizations face serious repercussions in the form of both costly sanctions and adverse inferences for inadequate or failed legal hold procedures. The most basic preservation task however, issuing legal hold notifications, seemingly remains a mystery to a surprising portion of corporate defendants. Too often, organizations, and their counsel, do not view the legal hold notification (LHN) process as a manageable business process.
Imputed Income: A Look at What Courts Find Persuasive
November 26, 2013
In cases where historical and current income cannot form the basis for support awards, courts have the discretion to impute income to one or both of the parties ...
Document Exchange Breaches
November 26, 2013
While law firm IT can make sophisticated security systems available, it is ultimately attorneys who are responsible for protecting their clients' data and documents.
Managing Your Money: What Comes After Leaning In
November 26, 2013
Female law partners are not saving appropriately, putting money into wise investments or taking advantage of employer-sponsored retirement accounts. Further, they have little idea if they are on track toward a comfortable retirement.
At the Intersection: More Magical Thinking
November 26, 2013
All too often, Practice Group Leaders are the big rainmakers of a practice area and truly lack the interest or skills to lead a practice group. Here's how to herd the cats.

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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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