Some of the Surprising Ways Technology Will Affect Future Negotiations
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How will new technology transform future negotiations in situations where companies do not want to move more quickly and for various reasons want to use various different negotiation techniques?
17 Gardere Attorneys Recognized on 2015 Texas Rising Stars List
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Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP has announced that 17 of the firm’s attorneys have been selected for inclusion on the 2016 Texas Rising Stars list. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of lawyers in the state are honored with this distinction.
SpringCM Opens Office in San Francisco to Accommodate Customer Growth
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SpringCM, provider of sales contract management solution for Salesforce customers, has announced opening a new office in San Francisco’s Financial District.
Trump Goaded Bloomberg Into Planning a Presidential Campaign. Why He Probably Won’t Run
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New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg has been watching the primaries unfold with outrage and frustration, sources tell New York magazine.
Where Oil is King – When State and Local Fracking Rules Clash
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Municipalities may be able to ensure compliance with environmental regulations by oil and gas companies and minimize some of the environmental harms associated with fracking, even when they cannot enact outright bans on the practice.
5 Ways to Clarify and Strengthen U.S. Cybersecurity Law
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Rob Knake, a Senior Fellow for Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses five ways the U.S. Congress can make the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 better during 2016.
Job Applicant Waited Too Long to Sue Over Credit Report
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The statute of limitations on an unsuccessful job applicant’s Fair Credit Reporting Act claim began to run when he discovered that his credit report had been pulled.
Killer Contract Clauses
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Contracts and the law are not about common sense. They’re about rules. Know them and win. Ignore them and forget about retiring on time, writes Jack Garson.”
Beck Redden Attorneys Recognized as Texas Super Lawyers
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The Super Lawyers list recognizes no more than five percent of attorneys in each state and the Texas Rising Stars list recognizes no more than 2.5 percent of Texas attorneys.
What Does a Former Staffer’s Immunity Deal Mean for Hillary Clinton?
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The revelation that the Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staff member who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server is a likely indication that the investigation is nearing a conclusion.
NY AG: Trump University Fraud ‘Pretty Straightforward’
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that evidence of the fraud perpetrated by Trump University is “pretty straightforward,” reports CNN Money.
Texas Lawyers Sued for Allegedly Bankrolling BP Spill Scam
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Plaintiffs blame the lawyers in part for obstructing their efforts to pursue their own claims for payments under BP’s restitution program for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Latham & Watkins Advises Checkpoint in $443 Million Acquisition By CCL Industries
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Checkpoint Systems, Inc., a leading global supplier of merchandise availability solutions for the retail industry, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of CCL Industries Inc.
Dallas Attorney Paula Bennett Named Partner at Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson
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The family law boutique Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP, has promoted Paula A. Bennett to partner in the firm’s Dallas office.
Quarles & Brady Grows Intellectual Property Practice in Chicago Office
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Quarles & Brady has added Shen Wang and Hao Tan to the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm’s Chicago office.
WB Mills, PLLC, Adds Rob Ghio As Of Counsel
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Rob Ghio has 23 years of experience representing businesses and employees with matters involving discrimination, trade secrets, noncompetition agreements, severance agreements, unfair labor practices, wage and hour claims, and immigration.
Negotiating Software Contracts – Successfully Negotiating a Limitation of Liability
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A software provider’s liability is usually limited to the amount of fees paid to the vendor or a fraction thereof. The risk in not negotiating these terms is that the licensee is capped at the amount of damages.
Download: TMF’s Global Benchmark Complexity Index 2015
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TMF Group’s report ranks jurisdictions according to their complexity from a corporate secretarial perspective, and is based on results from a survey conducted across TMF Group offices.
Review Of Arbitration Awards: Lessons for the Construction Industry from the Tom Brady Case
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Richard W. Foltz, Jr. and James M. Kwartnik, Jr. of Pepper Hamilton discuss whether members of the construction industry contemplating review of arbitration awards can draw any lessons from the Tom Brady matter.
Smart Contracts May Create Significant Innovative Disruption
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Smart contracts today may be similar to e-commerce in the 1990s – poised for widespread adoption and explosive growth even though it may still be a few years off, writes Oliver Herzfeld, chief legal officer of Beanstalk.
