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Running a small law firm isn’t easy. Practicing law is a full-time job in and of itself, and as a result most small firm lawyers don’t have the luxury of letting others run the back-end of their law firm. Instead, they’re ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

While most leaders of law firms understand that mentoring is rewarding and necessary, it can be challenging to implement and monitor these programs. Workload, as well as finding the right mentors, can act as barriers. Despite these challenges, it’s imperative ...

Tagged with: Beth Sears Collaboration Insights

The New York Court of Appeals recently took up the question of whether a former spouse’s interest in real property granted to her in the Judgment of Divorce can be attached by a later judgment creditor if the Judgment of ...

Tagged with: Matrimonial Matters Sara Stout Ashcraft

 Negative yielding bonds overseas, coupled with slowing growth due to the trade war with China and a dovish Fed, have pushed long-dated Treasury yields to historically low levels[1]. Investors searching for income have gravitated toward the defensive sectors of the ...

Tagged with: James Quackenbush Money Management

This article will present an overview of some of the issues pertaining to the disposition of patent rights to inventions made under a government R&D contract. As will be seen, without careful adherence to the statutes and regulations governing such ...

Tagged with: IP Frontiers Stephen P. Scuderi

If you’re practicing law in 2019, there’s no escaping technology. One way or another, you’re using technology as part of your day-to-day practice, whether it’s the internet, email, mobile devices or cloud-based legal software. Technology is an unavoidable — and ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

Our community’s children are back in classrooms, and now lawyers must also go back to school — to learn cultural competence and cultural humility. We must go beyond our bi-annual CLE requirements and do our homework so we can most ...

This past summer, the New York Legislature passed the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (TPA). The TPA became effective on June 14, 2019. The TPA made significant changes to Article 7 of the Real Property Actions & ...

Tagged with: Advocate's View Robert Yawman

Interest rates around the world have declined to some of the lowest levels in my lifetime of 70-plus years. The 30-year U.S. Treasury was at its lowest yield ever in August[1] since being first issued in the mid-1980s. The long-term ...

Tagged with: Money Management

A little over a decade ago, the mobile revolution was launched when the iPhone was released in 2007. Just one year earlier, Amazon rolled out its first cloud computing service: Amazon EC2. Now, in 2019, many of the most popular ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

I was recently consulted by the former client of a certified public accountant. The client, who I’ll call “Ms. Smith,” hired the accountant to manage all financial aspects of her business. This included providing payroll services and preparing and filing ...

Tagged with: Civil Litigation David Fitch

The calendar may say the year starts in January, but we all know that the circle of professional and personal lives “starts” in September. A new school year, a new crop of law school graduates enters the profession, the Monroe ...