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There are three essential keys to successful business development.

Tagged with: business development

Senior investment counselor John Wyckoff provides an overview of what to expect in 2014.

A review of the current court’s year confirms that it is the most activist since the 1920s, with plenty for both sides of the partisan aisle to hate and plenty for each to love.

Tagged with: U.S. Supreme Court

A party's perception of what might be "fair" in the way of liability limitations is often a function of whose economic ox is being gored, who has bargaining leverage, and what market pressures are.

U.S. prosecutors are showing new resolve in pursuing cases against the financial institutions that sold the shoddy mortgages that led to the global financial crisis of 2007-08.

Tagged with: Dodd-Frank Act

The Texas Court of Appeals should make matters right in Kountze. Its football team does not need divine inspiration to beat the opposing team.

Who owns a company’s social media accounts – the employer or employee?

From the beginning of the trial, the prosecution team seemed less focused on getting a conviction — essentially assured by the facts — than by making some sort of civic point.

Law enforcement is nothing if not creative when it comes to finding ways around the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment.

Tagged with: Fourth Amendment privacy U.S. Supreme Court

In Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, the U.S. Supreme Court held that monetary exactions, like requirements to dedicate real property, are subject to nexus and rough proportionality requirements.

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I’ll let you in on a little secret: Nobody on either side of this debate actually cares about how big the circuit’s caseload is. What they care about is the court’s ideological balance.

Tagged with: Barack Obama