By Angela Colon-Mahoney Humor in the workplace: Is it dead? Or simply deadpan? With professional conferences, networking, and business development now governed by a Zoom screen measured in inches, problematic Wi-Fi, bad lighting, and domestic photobombing, can business humor ever ...
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Read More »By Courtney Collins and Meagan Donohoe The legal profession’s transition into the online sphere in 2020 was abrupt, disconcerting and sometimes painful, but it is finally official: We continue forward, but (mostly) virtually. Hearings, mediations, arbitrations and—most commonly—depositions have vacated ...
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Read More »By F. Dennis Saylor IV and Daniel I. Small BridgeTower Media Newswires Whatever may divide us as a society, we all seem to have one thing in common: spending hours every day staring at screens. Pretty much everyone has now ...
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Read More »By Jeffrey Harradine BridgeTower Media Newswires We all know more than we did at the outset of this pandemic, including businesses seeking legal redress for business disruption, breach of contract, insurance protection and business loss. Enough time has passed to ...
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Read More »By Matthew E. Christoph This winter, two groups visit a company on the same day: the Girl Scouts selling delicious cookies, and a labor union handing out flyers and soliciting employees. The company has a carefully drafted non-solicitation policy, but ...
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Read More »By Katerina Kramarchyk and Meghan DiPasquale The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee has recommended that the FDA approve Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in the United States under an Emergency Use Authorization. The question for employers once the ...
Tagged with: Coronavirus Vaccine
Read More »BY KIRK TESKA As is our custom this time of year, the following are the top 10 IP cases of the year. Tampa Brady NFL quarterback Tom Brady is once again seeking to acquire more federal trademark registrations. Last year ...
Tagged with: Intellectual Property
Read More »By Claire Papanastasiou BridgeTower Media Newswires Securing leadership buy-in for non-billable or non-client-facing initiatives is hard. This challenging dynamic has persisted for as long as there have been law firm marketing, business development, and internal and external communications departments. Social ...
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Read More »BY DAN GIBSON On Nov. 3, the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued an important decision affecting mediated settlements, Mitchell v. Boswell. The court held N.C.G.S. § 7A-38.1(l)’s provision saying a mediated settlement agreement is unenforceable “unless it has been ...
Tagged with: Mediation
Read More »BY MICHELLE L. BOUTON BridgeTower Media Newswires The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, the economy, and our daily lives have been both widespread and unexpected. Who could have anticipated that this is what things would look like ...
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