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In an effort to better my future legal brethren, I’ve drafted a list of lessons law schools should implement to better educate the lawyers of tomorrow.

The attorneys who serve their clients best are problem-solvers, not cobras.

As a general proposition, an employee's off-duty conduct is not the employer's concern. However, an employer may discipline an employee if it can establish a nexus between the objectionable off-duty conduct and the employer's legitimate interests.

Social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn have made it easier than ever for law firms to advertise and refine their brands, and even reach new clients.

Real estate marketing is adapting from a traditional face-to-face connection between a real estate broker and a customer.

It’s easy to become complacent – to become familiar and therefore not to be as critical.

Courts are holding that litigants have an interest in keeping irrelevant information confidential and that reviewing such information in discovery (possibly several social media accounts spanning years) can be burdensome on both parties and courts.

Of all the legalistic T’s to be crossed when getting a business established, few are as misunderstood and misapplied as the humble trademark.

The court’s decision appears to continue its trend of deferring to federal agencies’ statutory interpretations, encouraging incremental growth of federal agency power in this area.

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As King Solomon tried to do justice between two harlots claiming the baby, the SEC took its statutory requirement and cut its impact in half.

Tagged with: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

For more than two centuries, the court’s members have adopted one of four roles and self- presentations that define their work. These constitutional personas are Heroes, Soldiers, Burkeans and Mutes.

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