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Immigration Compliance
August 02, 2014
With the dire and obvious need for immigration reform and the equally obvious slow move toward adopting a comprehensive solution, some companies choose to put immigration compliance on the back burner. Bad idea.
Prior Documents May Affect a New Lease
August 02, 2014
Always check to make sure prior documents signed by your client do not affect the new lease you are about to finalize. An attorney who fails to heed this warning may be unintentionally ignoring restrictions or prohibitions contained in these prior agreements and expose his/her client to unnecessary litigation by parties seeking to enforce such contracts.
Ethics of Settlement: Restricting Plaintiff's Counsel from Representing Future Claimants
August 02, 2014
Rules of professional conduct of all 50 states include an express prohibition against a lawyer participating in making ' or even offering ' an agreement in which restriction on a lawyer's right to practice law is part of the settlement of a client controversy. A look at a hypothetical case.
Med Mal News
August 02, 2014
Discussion of two major cases.
Second Circuit Limits Abuse of Conservation Easements
August 02, 2014
Conservation easements provide an attractive mechanism for preserving open spaces and historic buildings. Although some landowners undoubtedly create conservation easements out of pure altruism, tax advantages play a significant role in the creation of most conservation easements. .
Adopting Information Governance in Small and Midsized Firms
August 02, 2014
The law firm records management industry has been evolving to an information governance framework. The records function within the firm has traditionally been more of a back-end function, with the idea that everything was created in paper, made into an official record, indexed and hopefully regulated by retention schedules.
Divorce in the Red Zone
August 02, 2014
In cases involving divorce financial planners, red zones are legal and financial coordination points between the attorney and the planner ' the latter bringing a broad financial perspective to the case that compliments the attorney's legal perspective.
Analyzing Child Custody Reports
August 02, 2014
This is the third installment of a four-part series offering a model for attorneys to use when faced with the task of analyzing a custody assessment.
Is It a 'Cyberattack' or a 'Data-Breach Incident'?
August 02, 2014
This article goes beyond the nuts and bolts of how to respond to a data-breach incident, and offers some lessons learned from the frontlines of the cybersecurity war to help companies successfully navigate the legal and public-relations minefield that ensues.
When Is Equity Value Really Zero?
August 02, 2014
In the past few years, we have seen several of our valuation assignments conclude with "zero value," which is hardly pleasing. Not only is this type of opinion stressful, it also contributes to expert and attorney fees where fee containment may be one of the underlying objectives of the clients.

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