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Ten Legal Practice Tips: Developing and Distributing Apps

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

Apps likely contain several elements of intellectual property. Protect copyrights, patents and trade secrets as you would in other software projects (employee and contractor agreements, copyright registrations, trademark registrations, patent...

Biggest New York Harassment Case Employment Verdict of 2012

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

After enduring years of emotional abuse and discrimination at her job, Mirella Salemi won a 1.6 million dollar lawsuit from her former employer — the largest employment verdict in 2012 in New York. For her claims of emotional distress, loss of...

Does your County’s Personnel Agenda Comply with the Open Governmental Proceedings Act?

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

As we begin to hold personnel hearings for “Personnel Season” a question that seems to come up often concerns the listing of individual employee names on county board of education agendas. Many administrators are, understandably, concerned about...

Idaho District Court First to Unwind a Physician Practice Deal

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

On January 24, 2014, in Federal Trade Commission v. St. Luke's Health System, Ltd. & Saltzer Medical Group, P.A., the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho found that the acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group ("Saltzer") by St. Luke's Health...

McDonald Hopkins expands office in Ohio’s capital by adding litigation boutique

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

McDonald Hopkins announced Monday that it is expanding its office in the Ohio state capital by acquiring a six-attorney litigation boutique. Welin, O'Shaughnessy + Scheaf focuses on construction law and litigation, complex business litigation and oil and gas litigation. Name partner Peter D.

State of the (Solar) Union

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

Viewers of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening may have noticed the President making a strong, albeit brief, statement in support of solar energy in the United States....
By: Foley & Lardner LLP

California Roadways Do Not Compare to Indy Speedway

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

Another young Californian is dead from street racing. One day after a police sting to catch street racers, Joe Manriquez of Bakersfield, California, aged 24, crashed into a power pole while racing another car on McCutcheon Road....

Dodd-Frank News: January 2014: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform And Consumer Protection Act Update

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

In This Issue: - Recent Cases ..Dodd-Frank Prohibition on Yield Spread Premiums ..Dodd-Frank Prohibition on Arbitration ..Whistleblower Protection Under the Dodd-Frank Act ..Dodd-Frank Amendments to RESPA ..Dodd-Frank Amendment to...

Will Amanda Knox Be Extradited? Lawyers Disagree

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

Will Amanda Knox be extradited? Speculation is running rampant, as the 26-year-old Seattle woman has once again been found guilty of murder in Italy for the stabbing death of her former roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007.

Second Annual Victim Compensation Fund Released: Key Points

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/14

In November, the Special Master for the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) released a second annual report concerning activities undertaken in the last year to pursue the mandate of the VCF....

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