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Thought leaders from around the world contribute their perspectives on landmark cases, new legislation, and legal perspectives on new technologies, business practices, and civil procedure.

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COVID-19 Legal Information for Businesses

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

Announcing the 2020 Global Business Edition

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Featuring Best Lawyers and Law Firm of the Year honorees from around the globe.

Schemes That Compromise Business Emails

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?

SBRA in CARES Act Litigation

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?

COVID-19 Panel: Business Liability

WATCH: Best Lawyers Discusses COVID-19 & Business Liability

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Three legal experts join the CEO of Best Lawyers to talk about business liability concerns as the economy opens back up.

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What Legalizing Recreational Marijuana Means for Indiana

Rock Lee

hat will marijuana legalization mean for business, past conviction, and beyond?

An Interview With AEQUO

How This Firm Is Shaping the Economic Future of Ukraine

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Denis Lysenko discusses how AEQUO has helped build a new business environment.

Managing the Stress with Difficult Clients

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.

COVID-19 Panel: Business Insurance Claims

WATCH: Best Lawyers Discusses COVID-19 & Business Interruption Claims

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Three legal experts join CEO of Best Lawyers to talk about business-interruption insurance claims resulting from COVID-19 closures.

Why Gender Diversity Is Good for Business

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 Future of Litigation

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.

Legal Strategy for Real Estate Problem

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.

COVID-19 & Fossil Fuel Industry

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.

Virtual Mediation

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.

International Arbitration

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.

Remote Litigation

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.

Q&A With Roberta Kaplan

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.

Importance of Women in Legal Leadership

Equity Matters

Emer Simic

How my firm defies the statistics on women in legal leadership—and how yours can too.

Arbitration Clauses During COVID-19

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.

Diversity in Construction Law

Building Bridges

Melinda S. Gentile

The Realities and Implications of Diversity and Inclusion in Construction Law

Jury Research in High Profile Cases

Selection Protection

Robert A. Clifford and Bradley M. Cosgrove

Jury Research in High Profile Cases

Gender Equity in the Workplace

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.

How to Improve the Gender Patent Gap

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 on Insurance Claims

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.

Working From Home

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 the First Edition

Best Lawyers Since Day One

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We talked to some of the 566 attorneys who have been recognized by Best Lawyers since the first edition in 1983.

Best Lawyers Intelligence

How Does Your Firm Measure Up?

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BL Intelligence provides your firm with valuable industry data.

How to Find the Best Lawyer for Your Case

How to Find the Best Lawyer for Your Case

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Best Lawyers combines the trust of industry referrals with state-of-the-art technology to help you find the right lawyer.

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