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2006 Tax Year Tough on IRS
Attorney Blogs 03/22/2007[##_1L|1329213333.jpg|width="120" height="155" alt=""|_##]A new telephone refund, last-minute tax changes and a direct-deposit service made the 2006 tax filing season challenging for the Internal Revenue Service. So said IRS Commissioner Mark Everson...
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What is an LLM?
Attorney Blogs 03/13/2007[##_1L|1090145463.jpg|width="130" height="98" alt=""|_##]The LL.M. (Master of Laws) is an internationally recognized postgraduate law degree. It is usually obtained by completing a one-year full-time program. The LL.M. is a higher academic degree, co...
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How Business Trounced the Trial Lawyers
Attorney Blogs 03/11/2007The media recently has been writing the obituary of the tort lawyers. "The power of the plaintiffs bar is on the wane," argued the American Lawyer; a cover story in Business Week promised to reveal "How Business Trounced the Trial Lawyers." With apol...
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The LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law
Attorney Blogs 01/23/2007[##_1L|1286818491.jpg|width="200" height="300" alt=""|_##]As it has done for generations, intellectual property (IP) law determines how we use patents, copyrights, and trademarks. But over the last few decades, IP law has assumed an increasingly vita...
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Web Hosting and Emerging Internet Law
Attorney Blogs 01/06/2007Providers of web site hosting and other Internet-related services offer customers the means to acquire and disseminate a plethora of public, private, commercial, and non-commercial information. While the Internet provides a forum for free and open di...