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Accounting Changes Could Cost Legal Industry Billions

March 27, 2014

While law firms are increasingly modeling their business practices after their clients', one they have not been interested in mimicking is the accrual method of accounting. But it may be coming.

At the Intersection: Game Your Way to Longer Life

March 27, 2014

A look at "personal gamification" ' how you can create stronger personal motivation and resiliency by drawing on some basic game principles.

Five Ways to Improve Lateral Recruitment

March 27, 2014

Here are five ideas that law firm leaders can embrace to improve their own success rate at finding and integrating laterals into their firms.

Movers & Shakers

March 27, 2014

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

Application of the Abuse Exclusion

March 27, 2014

Based upon the complexity and risk, many sexual abuse claims result in coverage disputes.

Update: Work-Product Doctrine

March 27, 2014

Update to last month's article concerning the applicability of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine in the context of an insurer's claims investigation.

Stroke-of-the-Pen Risk in Insurance Coverage

March 27, 2014

The actions taken by New York in the wake of Sandy, and the recent news that such measures will be the new normal, suggest a move from the rule of law to the "rule of man" that should be troubling for insurers going forward.

In the Marketplace

March 27, 2014

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

2014 Forecast

March 27, 2014

Optimism is riding high among construction contractors and equipment distributors that local non-residential activity will improve in 2014, according to a recent survey by Wells Fargo Equipment Finance Inc.

'Hell or High Water' Clause

March 27, 2014

As if Superstorm Sandy did not cause enough damage, it has the temerity to become the basis for a new legal precedent.

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