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Career Journal: Marketing's Greater Impact During the Great Recession

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In 2009, the investments that so many had encouraged their respective firms to make actually started to pay some dividends.

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Client Speak: Cross-Selling ' Optional or Obligatory?

Donald E. Aronson

<i>Cross-selling in today's environment? You must be kidding. I have enough trouble holding on to what I have.</i> If that's your reaction, it's understandable. After all, businesses are cutting back on expenses; and, as you well know, in-house legal departments are not immune.

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MA Recognizes Medical Monitoring Based on Exposure to Cigarette Smoke

David R. Geiger

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ("SJC") has recognized a cause of action for the projected costs of medical monitoring when a product has not caused any actual disease or illness but solely subclinical physiological changes associated with an increased risk of disease. The decision will have broad implications for product manufacturers and sellers.

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Practice Tip: FDA Issues Draft Guidance for REMS

Alan G. Minsk & Lanchi Nguyen

On Sept. 30, 2009, the FDA issued a draft guidance for industry on better understanding and implementing Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS), which the FDA requires for certain drugs or biologics.

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Movers & Shakers

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Who's doing what; who's going where.

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Court Watch

Cynthia M. Klaus & Meredith A. Bauer

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

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CPSC Poised to Implement Online Product Hazard Database

Victor E. Schwartz & Cary Silverman

The CPSC is posed to unveil its own online reporting system and public database of actual and potential product hazards. Unless the CPSC implements adequate safeguards, information disseminated through the new online database may be wholly unverified.

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Attributes of Successful Managing Partners

Joel A. Rose

Hardly a week passes without receiving information about a new publication or seminar about law office management. However, information is not readily available about what specifically managing partners and members of management committees should do to coalesce their partners, associates and staff into a well-managed and informed organization.

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