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NY Lawyer Gets Four-Month Suspension for Aggressive Behavior

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The lawyer had been cited by the state attorney grievance committee for “excessively aggressive behavior while representing a client.”

Mineral Interests: Net Royalty Acres Defined

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Mineral buyers often make offers in terms of dollars per net royalty acre. If the recipient of the offer does not know for sure what she owns, it can be difficult to evaluate the offer, according to Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody.

Energy Dealmaker Jimmy Vallee Joins Winston & Strawn In Houston

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Corporate energy lawyer Jimmy Vallee has joined Winston & Strawn LLP’s Houston office.

Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson Adds Jim Loveless in Fort Worth

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Jim Loveless has joined Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP, opening the firm’s Fort Worth office.

How SEO Matters to Law Firms

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Amy Boardman Hunt of Muse Communications, writing in the company’s blog, provides an overview of search engine optimization, or SEO, as it relates to the marketing of law firms.

Why Do I Want/Need a Waiver of Subrogation?

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Ira Meislik of Meislik & Meislik, writing in the firm’s Ruminations real estate law blog, examines the use of subrogation clauses in real estate leases in relation to insurance policies.

What Should be in Every Construction Agreement

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Parties to a construction project can have a better agreement by addressing six topics described in a post in The Lien Zone blog.

Audit Provisions in Services Agreements

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In many cases, the customer is the auditing party and the service provider is the audited party, but there are situations where the roles will be reversed.

What Did I Agree To? Importance of Reviewing Arbitration Provisions

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The case presented a conflict between the parties’ contractually-adopted arbitration rules and an individual party’s statutory rights under the FAA.

Female Attorneys Sue Biglaw Firm Over ‘Fraternity’ Atmosphere, Allege Bias Against Women

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Jones Day is being sued for gender, pregnancy and maternity discrimination to the tune of more than $200 million, reports Crain’s Cleveland Business.

A Judge Angered a Politically Connected Law Firm, Then Quickly Lost Her Job

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State investigators say they responded to Pond Lehocky’s complaint by pulling eight years of Andrea McCormick’s emails and determined that she had violated multiple policies.

Ohio Judge Reprimanded for Hearing Cases He Once Litigated

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Bloomberg Law reports that Judge Robert Nathaniel Rusu Jr. heard about 170 cases where he had previously served as the attorney of record, according to the court’s findings.

Download: Ethics & Compliance Hotline Benchmark Report

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One simple act of documenting open-door conversations and emails allows you to capture and address employee concerns more effectively, according to NAVEX Global.

Murder-for-Hire of North Texas Woman Featured on ‘In Ice Cold Blood’ TV Series

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Fears Nachawati trial lawyer Matthew McCarley will be featured in an upcoming episode of the true crime show “In Ice Cold Blood,” detailing the murder-for-hire of a 69-year-old woman who was killed for her $5 million life insurance policies.