With President-elect Donald J. Trump assuming office on Friday, changes are coming to the legal world — it’s just a matter of when. Most prominently, an initial task for the new Republican commander-in-chief will be nominating a replacement for the ...
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Read More »RALEIGH, N.C. — Bitcoin, introduced in 2008 as the world’s first decentralized digital currency, was envisioned as a direct assault on government-issued fiat currencies. So far, it has spent its still-young life as something much more akin to PayPal, but ...
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We met in the early ’90s, as student and adjunct faculty member at Suffolk University Law School. A few years later we became colleagues, for five years, as sole practitioner and associate at a law firm specializing in elder law. ...
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Read More »Two recent appellate court decisions remind employers to be vigilant about employees who may not be asking for a disability accommodation, but who are nevertheless owed one by law. An engineer for a gun manufacturer did not have a lot ...
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Read More »One of the main causes of high levels of stress and burnout is the feeling that you lack control over the important aspects of your work life. Whether this refers to the seemingly endless workload or the constant pressure to ...
Read More »Having trouble keeping abreast of the latest developments in the world of intellectual property? No worries. Here is a list of the top 10 IP cases of 2016: 1. On-sale patent bar clarified By now, most everyone knows if you ...
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Read More »It’s a classic conundrum: On one hand you have a client’s most recent tax return showing $100,000 of taxable income, and on the other hand the client’s personal financial statement (Form 401) reports expenses exceeding $150,000 annually. How can this ...
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Read More »BALTIMORE — The American Bar Association filed suit this week against the U.S. Department of Education, alleging the department failed to provide a reasonable explanation for why it has decided to refuse to honor loan forgiveness commitments made to attorneys ...
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Read More »MILWAUKEE — In a recent column about BATNA, I suggested that as you get closer to your BATNA range, you will want to evaluate your confidence about that range. Why should you be concerned about this? Litigators who are not ...
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LONG ISLAND — Ever since the election, law firms that focus on immigration — whether assisting individuals, or businesses employing foreign nationals — are spending a lot of time fielding questions from concerned clients. With the Trump administration’s position on ...
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Read More »The internet of things requires us to secure all our devices properly. There are four considerations to acknowledge: security issues, the huge amount of data involved, privacy and self-protection. Acknowledge the security issues Since devices essentially “talk” to each other, ...
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The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education recently released an interactive job supply and demand map: Maryland, New York and Virginia were among the eight states with the highest demand for cybersecurity jobs, and across the country, nearly 350,000 jobs are ...
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