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Client Reviews: Your staff’s role in generating positive reviews

Uncategorized / November 3, 2015

Many law firms take a passive role in Online Reputation versus an active one. An active role in Online Reputation Management introduces the concept of increased employee awareness of customer experience. Most business owners aren’t face to face with the customers providing the memorable experience while delivering legal representation, usually an employee is acting

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Is a Pacific Rim Legal Powerhouse About to Emerge?

Uncategorized / November 3, 2015

It appears that a new Pacific Rim legal powerhouse may be created with plans by Dentons, the Chinese firm 大成, the Singapore firm Rodyk & Davidson, and the Australian firm Gadens to form a major legal player in the Pacific Rim. A press release today says that the proposed combination would create the major player

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Company Pays $4 Million For Overcharging US Military for Fruit and Veges

Uncategorized / November 3, 2015

LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – A Los Angeles company has paid $4 million to resolve civil allegations that it fraudulently overcharged the U.S. military for fresh fruits and vegetables that it supplied to military dining facilities and Navy ships in Southern California. As part of a second agreement with criminal prosecutors, Coast Produce Company

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Trade Secret Litigation: What Happens When Key Employees Go?

BigLaw, Featured / November 2, 2015

Morgan Lewis –Alyssa Kovach & Larry Turner Within the span of two weeks, Mr. Smith and Mr. Wilson, two top managers from your $2 billion corporation, resign. Both managers had complete, unfettered access to your corporation’s trade secrets and confidential information, including pricing and staffing formulas, clients’ requests for proposals, and bid information. One month earlier, Mr.

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Yoga and Copyright: Stretching Copyright to Protect Yoga Poses

BigLaw / November 2, 2015

Jaburg Wilk – A recent case decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the federal appellate court for Arizona and California, has made a predictable determination that a sequence of yoga moves cannot be protected as intellectual property. Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit ruled that a series of yoga poses and

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The New Hollywood Lawyers

Rankings / November 1, 2015

Variety magazine has put out its list of some of the top entertainment lawyers practising in the business. The image (above) shows the top contenders including Ken Deutsch, 37 (second from left) who has done work for DreamWorks, MGM, Miramax, Univision, revolution studios and others. He left his former firm of O’Melveny and Myers to start

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Makin’ Bacon Legal Fry-Up

Uncategorized / October 30, 2015

It looks like California is going to be the first place to enter the hot-fry legal arena over the bacon warning brouhaha. California is looking at placing health warnings on bacon and other meat products in the wake of the stir created by the World Health Organization’s warning in the past week about processed meats

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Dorsey Opens Beijing Office

Press Releases / October 30, 2015

LawFuel.com – Law Firm News – International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that it is expanding in China and has opened an office in Beijing. The Beijing office is located in Beijing’s central business district at Suite 1101A, West Tower, Twin Towers, B12, Jianguomenwai Avenue, Chaoyang district, Beijing 100022, Main Phone: +86

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Nearly 500 Hospitals Pay $250 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Uncategorized / October 30, 2015

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice has reached 70 settlements involving 457 hospitals in 43 states for more than $250 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements, the Department of Justice announced today. “While recognizing and respecting physician judgment, the department will hold

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10 Questions Every Potential Law Student Should Ask Themselves

Legal Careers / October 29, 2015

Choosing law school is something many lawyers – or aspiring lawyers – do as an almost knee-jerk reaction to their vaguely formed opinions as to what it must be like to be Harvey Specter in “Suits”, or perhaps Ally McBeal. However, the problem is that the right questions are frequently remaining unasked. The questions that

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