Well-established ideas about the delivery of legal services are changing, and not all of the changes are going to be good for lawyers. The way people purchase music and rent movies for home viewing has changed. The adoption of mobile ...

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Special appearances — in which a contract attorney makes a special court appearance on behalf of another lawyer — involve special considerations in order to ensure that such an arrangement does not become a liability situation. Many firms, both large ...

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See the small aircraft circling overhead multiple times? What is it doing? Looking for somebody on the ground or following the expressway traffic? Or might it be owned by the FBI and conducting surveillance of some gathering on the ground ...

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National Adoption Day is a collective national effort designed to raise awareness of the inordinate number of children in foster care who are waiting to be adopted. The goal of National Adoption Day is that all children in foster care ...

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Why is it that some murders rivet attention while others are relegated to anonymity and oblivion, sharing the scattering ashes of their victims? Frequently, it all comes down to the mood of the press. And when, on June 26, 1897, ...

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Recently, a friend of mine described her recent “vacation” in Washington, D.C. “It was great,” she said. “I was able to work out of our firm’s D.C. office during the day and visit with friends and relatives at night. My ...

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The markets in October had their biggest monthly gain since October 2011. Over the course of the month the Dow Jones rose 8.5 percent and the S&P rose 8.3 percent. Both turned positive for the year during the month. The ...

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December will mark the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which forever ended slavery in the United States. In honor of this momentous “new birth of freedom,” Boston attorney and legal historian Christian G. Samito has penned ...

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Football powerhouse USC fired its head football coach, Steve Sarkisian, in October after it was widely reported that he had been under the influence of alcohol during several team events. His termination provides a lesson for any employer wondering how ...

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What do you do if a job candidate walks into an interview wearing a hijab, yarmulke or cross? You may have no intention of discussing religion during the interview, yet the candidate’s headwear, facial hair, jewelry or tattoos may raise ...

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I actually remember when the Digital Millennium Copyright Act became law, back in October 1998. I was working in-house for Micron Electronics, and we had just completed the acquisition of a Los Angeles-based Web hosting company. The Web hosting company ...

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This election cycle is a numbers game without any logic, a quagmire of quagmires. The CNN Democratic presidential debates were the party’s most-watched ever, with more than 15 million viewers. There was not a lot of “debating” per se, but ...

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