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A Legal Guide for Businesses During COVID-19
Roy D. Oppenheim
Oppenheim Law creates a useful guide for problems small to medium-sized businesses may face during this time of uncertainty.
Announcing the 2020 Global Business Edition
Best LawyersFeaturing Best Lawyers and Law Firm of the Year honorees from around the globe.
Scammers’ Delight
Santosh Aravind
Attacks on companies’ email systems are common, and losses are staggering. How can a business fight back against third-party fraud—and what are the risks of choosing to go to battle?
No Idle Preference
Joseph Briggett
Amid Covid-19 economic uncertainty, Congress has continued to tinker with the Small Business Reorganization Act. How will the reworked law change bankruptcy preference litigation?
WATCH: Best Lawyers Discusses COVID-19 & Business Liability
Best LawyersThree legal experts join the CEO of Best Lawyers to talk about business liability concerns as the economy opens back up.
What Legalizing Recreational Marijuana Means for Indiana
Rock Lee
hat will marijuana legalization mean for business, past conviction, and beyond?
How This Firm Is Shaping the Economic Future of Ukraine
Best LawyersDenis Lysenko discusses how AEQUO has helped build a new business environment.
6 Tips on Working With Difficult Business Clients
Stan Popovich
As offices start to open back up at their own pace around the U.S., the stress of face-to-face meetings with difficult clients comes back. Here are ways to manage that stress.
WATCH: Best Lawyers Discusses COVID-19 & Business Interruption Claims
Best LawyersThree legal experts join CEO of Best Lawyers to talk about business-interruption insurance claims resulting from COVID-19 closures.
Talent Unbound
Kelly Twiss Noonan
Gender diversity within our firm isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s also good for business, and it’s helping us manage the unprecedented coronavirus crisis.
The Next Pandemic
Roberta F. Green
An incipient wave of litigation generated by the coronavirus hasn’t even begun to crest. Here’s a look at current conditions—and what lies ahead.
When a Dream Home Becomes a Nightmare
Peter B. McGlynn and Robert W. Stetson
A modern-day Bleak House* offers a cautionary tale about buying real estate—and a legal strategy that helped our clients gain redress.
Powering Up
George H. Lugrin IV
Regulation, consumption trends, global population growth, and the pandemic’s many earth-shaking effects make this moment highly uncertain for the upstream-energy industry—and the only way forward is to change with the times.
Is It Live . . . Or Is It Virtual?
Adrian L. Bastianelli III, Paulo Flores, Kevin J. O’Connor, and Robert S. Peckar
Mediation via Zoom is just one of the legal-industry oddities the pandemic has wrought. Here’s a cheat sheet for how to make it work for you—and some thoughts on whether it’s here to stay.
Clash Across the Channel
Peter Rosher and Clément Fouchard
The diametric opposition of decisions reached by French and English courts in a recent arbitration case shows how profound cultural differences between international jurisdictions can lead to maddening legal uncertainty.
The Virtual Courtroom
Andrew E. Curto and Danielle E. Tricolla
Why some of the industry changes the pandemic has wrought—the advent of remote courthouse appearances chief among them—deserve to outlast the return to normal life.
High Court Merit
Tracy Collins Ortlieb
In progressive legal circles, the name Robbie Kaplan has emerged as an omnipresent force for equal and human rights.
Equity Matters
Emer Simic
How my firm defies the statistics on women in legal leadership—and how yours can too.
Without Delay
Ashish Mahendru and Darren Braun
Remote testimony? Virtual evidence presentation? Been there, done that: Why even international arbitration proceedings have, for the most part, weathered the pandemic just fine.
Building Bridges
Melinda S. Gentile
The Realities and Implications of Diversity and Inclusion in Construction Law
Equal to the Task
Joyce D. Edelman
Fighting for gender equity in the law firm can seem like the very definition of a thankless task. But you just might find yourself able to make great strides.
The State of Women Inventors
Kate Rockwood and Amanda Hermans
What’s being done to improve the gender patent gap—and how attorneys can help.
Jury Study Sounds Alarm for Insurance Industry
Christopher W. Martin
Without Congressional action, the years ahead will see a tsunami of suits filed against the insurance industry for COVID-19-related claims. Our intensive surveys shed some disturbing light on potential jurors’ attitudes and perspectives.
How I Adapt to Working From Home
Alexandria Hurst
With the pandemic still ongoing with no end in sight, one lawyer writes about how she stays sane working from home.
Best Lawyers Since Day One
Best LawyersWe talked to some of the 566 attorneys who have been recognized by Best Lawyers since the first edition in 1983.
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