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Are Law Firms Ready for the Corporate Transparency Act?

Ross Aronowitz

With the beginning of a new year around the corner and the introduction of new compliance obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), many law firms are scrambling to determine how they will assist clients who may be subject to these additional regulations.

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Student Athletes Try to Form Labor Union

Jeffrey Campolongo & Scott M. Badami

Does the ability to receive remuneration for being a college athlete mean that the students are deemed employees of the university? Do employment laws apply? Are labor laws enforced? Does OSHA enter the equation? What about HIPAA concerns relating to medical conditions and injuries?

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Is A Real Estate Instrument Filing Fee An Unauthorized Tax? Image

Is A Real Estate Instrument Filing Fee An Unauthorized Tax?

Cameron Macdonald

Local governments have significant leeway to charge fees for services they provide their residents. But fee revenue sources can be attractive options for those local governments needing to fill budget gaps without raising taxes.

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Fifth Circuit: Pre-petition Payout of Insurance Proceeds Should Be Classified As a 'Transfer of An Interest'

Francis J. Lawall & Brenden S. Dahrouge

In upholding the bankruptcy court's determination that the payment of insurance proceeds could be such a transfer, the Fifth Circuit underscored the complex interplay between state law, bankruptcy law and the rights of creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.

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Like Mushrooms After A Rainstorm: Trade Secret Cases, and Lawyers, Are Growing Exponentially Image

Like Mushrooms After A Rainstorm: Trade Secret Cases, and Lawyers, Are Growing Exponentially

Nicole D. Galli

In modern times, trade secrets have long been considered mainly the province of employment lawyers dealing with more mundane issues such as customer relationships. Today, it seems trade secrets lawyers are multiplying like mushrooms after a rainstorm — coming not only from the employment bar, but also from IP, particularly the patent bar.

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New York Real Estate Law Reporter Staff

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Law Firm Leadership: Beyond Coffee and Client Alerts: Strategizing Your Client Nurture System for Multidimensional Relationships Image

Law Firm Leadership: Beyond Coffee and Client Alerts: Strategizing Your Client Nurture System for Multidimensional Relationships

Yuliya LaRoe

Business development is, first and foremost, about people and your relationships with these people. While marketing and visibility activities (speaking, writing, etc.) are critical, it's the people who ultimately make the hiring decisions. As a lawyer, while time is rarely on your side, developing your Nurture System will help you strengthen and deepen your important relationships in ways that are sustainable and effective.

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Using Experience Management In Marketing and Business Development

Jason Noble

With experience management, information is centralized in exactly one place and, by design, means that marketing, business development and knowledge management (KM) know that the information they need resides in that exact, single "place."

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Billable Hours Frustrate In-House Attorneys, So Why Aren't They Demanding Alternatives?

Hugo Guzman

Alternative-fee arrangements help establish a link between outside counsel costs and the value provided.. Yet, adoption of AFAs remains sluggish — even as outrage over outside counsel hourly rate increases grows.

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The White House's AI Executive Order Has Teeth, But Does It Bite?

Cat Casey

Packing more tricks and treats than a suburban soccer mom, this sweeping order was ambitious, to say the least, artfully seeking to thread the needle and balance fear and desire when it comes to the AI renaissance sweeping the globe. And yet, hidden within the body of the order lay something that might make this sweeping and ambitious order flop.

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