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Enhancing Lateral Partner Opportunities and Compensation Image

Enhancing Lateral Partner Opportunities and Compensation

Randi Lewis

You are a partner in a law firm and you have decided to make a lateral move. You want it to be the right move to a better platform. Where do you start and how do you maximize the likelihood of a successful outcome?

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Defamation and the Disgruntled Defendant Image

Defamation and the Disgruntled Defendant

Janice G. Inman

<b><I>Part One of a Two-Part Article </I></b><p>it is no wonder that those who find themselves on the receiving end of a product liability lawsuit and its attendant bad publicity sometimes fight back. So it was in a recent case, in which a company, publicly accused by a plaintiff's lawyers of using non–FDA-approved medical devices, fought back by bringing a defamation suit against the opposing attorneys.

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Using Computer Forensics to Investigate Employee Data Theft Image

Using Computer Forensics to Investigate Employee Data Theft

Timothy M. Opsitnick, Joseph M. Anguilano & Trevor B. Tucker

When suspicions of employee data theft arise, it is important to engage a computer forensics expert to perform a theft-of-IP analysis in order to preserve electronic data and uncover important evidence.

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Got a Negative Online Review? First Things First: Turn Off Your Attorney Image

Got a Negative Online Review? First Things First: Turn Off Your Attorney

Dan Lear

It happened. Some current or former client had the gall to write something less than flattering about you online. What do you do? The first thing to do, and this can be the hardest thing for attorneys, is to turn off your attorney. Feedback can be hard to take.

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Are Pharmacy Benefit Managers' Cost-Containment Claims a Shell Game? Image

Are Pharmacy Benefit Managers' Cost-Containment Claims a Shell Game?

Jonathan L. Swichar, Erin M. Duffy & Robyn Stoter

In today's political climate, one of the hottest topics is the rising cost of healthcare and drugs. Following the last election, all industries should anticipate change, especially in healthcare. While much of the focus is currently on whether the Affordable Care Act will be repealed, one of the areas the government continues to scrutinize is costs.

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Institutional Deliberate Indifference

Janice G. Inman

<b><i>When a Prisoner's Health Care Is Botched, the Providers' Employer May Be on the Hook</b></i><p>Prisoner Eighth Amendment allegations of cruel and unusual punishment due to deliberate indifference to their medical needs are common; most of them go nowhere. Once in a while, though, the care provided to a prisoner is so substandard that the case actually hurdles the defendants' motion for summary judgment and makes it to trial.

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In Light of Recent FTC Actions, Review Your Privacy Policy Image

In Light of Recent FTC Actions, Review Your Privacy Policy

Devika Kornbacher, Scott Breedlove, Janice Ta & Aislinn Affinito

Every day, billions of mobile and Internet-enabled computers, smartphones, watches, drones and even coffee machines are collecting vast amounts of geolocation…

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Professional Fees May Not Be Capped by Standard Carve-Out Provisions Image

Professional Fees May Not Be Capped by Standard Carve-Out Provisions

John C. Tishler & Tyler N. Layne

Secured creditors and debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders that rely on standard carve-out provisions to limit the impact of bankruptcy professional fees on their collateral would be well-advised to take notice of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court decision from earlier this year.

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Is Your Firm's Partner Compensation Spread Too Narrow? Image

Is Your Firm's Partner Compensation Spread Too Narrow?

Hugh A. Simons

It is fast becoming an imperative for elite firms to widen the range of their partner compensation. Too narrow a range allows competitors with wider ranges…

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Immigration Status, Divorce and Removal: What Is the Standard of Review? Image

Immigration Status, Divorce and Removal: What Is the Standard of Review?

Janice G. Inman

Although immigration law need not be an area of expertise in a family law practitioner's toolbelt, it doesn't hurt to have some knowledge of the ins and outs of this system when presented with a client facing possible removal from the United States because a marriage was short-lived.

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