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7/1/2010 Richard H. Epstein - How to Rebuff Lender Liability Lawsuits
7/1/2010 Gary W. Herschman and Anjana D. Patel - State Attorney General Oversight of Financial Practices of Nonprofit Corporations
6/14/2010 Steven R. Kamen - Earnouts: Pitfalls and Uneasy Compromises
6/1/2010 Anjana D. Patel - Healthcare Reform: The New Law Makes Changes to the Stark and Fraud & Abuse Laws
6/1/2010 Lawrence S. Horn and Richard J. Sapinski - Pending Cases In The U.S. Tax Court To Test IRS Transferee Liability Position On "Midco" Transactions
5/31/2010 Kenneth F. Oettle - Good Facts, Good Law, and Good Writing All Persuade — Good writing enhances the credibility of your message and you
5/17/2010 A Cautionary Tale: The Duty To Preserve And Collect Documents Revisited
5/1/2010 Jeffrey Hugh Newman - Negotiating Away The Fears
4/29/2010 Beth S. Rose and Gwen L. Coleman – Rule 1:38 And Presumption Of Public Access To Records
4/21/2010 Ted Zangari – Clamping down on last-minute zoning changes
4/1/2010 William R. Stuart III - The Impact of Human Factors Experts in Medical Device Litigation
4/1/2010 Gary W. Herschman and Anjana D. Patel - Attorney General Oversight of Transactions and Financial Practices of Nonprofit Corporations
4/1/2010 Gary W. Herschman - Health Reform's Impact on Health Care Fraud and Abuse
3/29/2010 Kenneth F. Oettle - Replace Neutrality With Advocacy — Choose words that aid your cause
3/15/2010 Ted Zangari - Last-minute zoning decisions that thwart growth need to change
3/1/2010 Andrew W. Schwartz - An Overview of Initial Considerations for Products Liability Litigation Involving "Live" Products
2/22/2010 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don’t Ask the Court To Take a Leap of Faith To Get Where Wishful Thinking Has Taken You
2/1/2010 Bruce I. Goldstein - United States And Shareholders vs. Corporate Fraud
1/25/2010 Kenneth F. Oettle - Take the Gild Off the Lily and Save Words in Bunches — Extra words don’t add punch; they just add weight
1/18/2010 George R. Hirsch and Robert R. Hempstead - Bankruptcy Remote Entities: What About the Rents?
1/8/2010 Jeffrey J. Greenbaum and Jason L. Jurkevich - Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements: Can They Survive?
1/1/2010 Jeffrey H. Newman - Leadership For Lawyers (And Others, Too)
1/1/2010 Mark J. Rosenberg - Video Marketing and the Law
12/14/2009 Beth S. Rose and Vincent Lodato - Parallel Claims: Exact Contours Will Continue to Be Litigated
12/7/2009 David W. Garland - LAD Does Not Protect Taking An Employer's Confidential Documents For Lawsuit
12/1/2009 Thomas S. Novak - New Jersey Appellate Division Broadly Construes "Ordinance Or Law" Endorsement Of An ISO Property Insurance Policy In Favor Of Coverage
12/1/2009 Anjana D. Patel - Healthcare Reform: How Will the New Changes Affect Existing Law?
12/1/2009 Gary W. Herschman - New Jersey and Other States Focus on Non-Profit Executive Compensation and Financial Management Practices
11/30/2009 Peter G. Verniero - Curbing Federal Pre-emption: What It Means for State Regulation
11/23/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - Introduce Long Discussions With Substantive Summaries — A précis will assist and may persuade the reader, and it may help you clarify your thinking
11/1/2009 Beth S. Rose and Vincent Lodato - Effective Use of A Regulatory Expert In Product Liability Litigation
10/19/2009 David W. Kiefer - A Work In Progress: The Supreme Court and Congress Sculpt a New False Claims Act
10/19/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - When Acknowledging a Mistake, Highlight The ‘Fix’ If You Have One — Tailor your apologies to the circumstances
10/1/2009 Jeffrey H. Newman - The Art of Litigation - Part II
10/1/2009 Jeffrey H. Newman - Class Certification Now an 'Olympic High Hurdle Event' in the Third Circuit
9/14/2009 Anjana D. Patel - Rising Health Care Enforcement Seeks to Boost Government Revenues
9/14/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - Control the Urge To Tell All — Be candid but not confessional
9/1/2009 Jeffrey H. Newman - The Art of Litigation - Part I
9/1/2009 David W. Garland - D.C. Circuit Limits NLRB's Guard Publishing Decision on E-Mail Policies
8/10/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - Be Selective, Not Linear, in Legal Argument — Control the material; don’t let it control you
8/1/2009 Philip R. White and David W. Kiefer - Revisiting Differing Site Conditions
8/1/2009 Simon Kimmelman - Gone In 60 Seconds – When Dealerships Go Bad, What's Their Lender To Do?
7/26/2009 Peter G. Verniero - Op-Ed - Don't Jump to Conclusions
7/20/2009 Jason L. Jurkevich - 'Continuous Trigger' Happy? Not So Fast, Appellate Division Says
7/13/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - Saving Words Pays Many Dividends — Trim words, sentences, paragraphs, and even arguments to tighten a brief
7/1/2009 Jason L. Jurkevich – Stopping CERCLA Liability In Its Tracks? Supreme Court Limits Joint And Several Liability, Narrows Arranger Liability
7/1/2009 Gary W. Herschman and Anjana D. Patel - Court rules that hospital arrangement with anesthesiologists may violate the Stark and Anti-kickback laws
6/12/2009 Peter G. Verniero - editorial - New era for school funding
6/8/2009 Robin Countee Pistorius – Federal Sentencing: A New Era - History and characteristics of the defendant are more significant
6/8/2009 Peter G. Verniero - editorial - From the courtrooms to the classrooms
6/1/2009 Lawrence S. Horn and Richard J. Sapinski – Amnesty By Any Other Name: Government Enforcement Drive Against Foreign Bank Account Holders Highlights Little Known IRS Voluntary Disclosure Policy
6/1/2009 John C. Phillips – Nowhere to Go But Up – But How Do We Get There?
6/1/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - Be Candid But Selective in Describing Case Holdings — As with all other aspects of persuasive legal writing, take control of the material
5/27/2009 Peter G. Verniero - Op-Ed - A little respect for the court, please
5/18/2009 James M. Hirschhorn – The Company Fink Goes Online: Employer Surveillance of Employee Social Networking Groups
5/4/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - Keep The References in A Sequence Consistent — Variety isn’t the spice of life if it is counterproductive
5/3/2009 Peter G. Verniero and James M. Hirschhorn - Op-Ed Contributors - Torture memos and the Bush administration: Time to move on
5/1/2009 Philip R. White and Loryn P. Riggiola – Successfully Managing A Troubled Construction Project
4/30/2009 Stuart J. Glick – Judicial Review of Arbitration Awards: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
4/9/2009 Paul H. Shur - Factors in the Economic Recovery Central to Loan Participations
4/9/2009 Peter G. Verniero and Deborah Jacobs - Op-Ed Contributors 'Sexting' Hardly Constitutes Child Endangerment
4/6/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - Ironic Quotation Marks Can Be Overused — Ask yourself whether mild sarcasm will help or hurt the presentation
4/6/2009 Robert J. Alter - New Jersey Tax Amnesty
4/1/2009 Anjana D. Patel - Keep the Deal Legal
4/1/2009 Jeffrey J. Greenbaum and Stuart M. Feinblatt - Hydrogen Peroxide: The Third Circuit's "Acid Test" For Class Certification
4/1/2009 Stuart J. Glick - The Art of Foreclosure
4/1/2009 Mark J. Rosenberg - Copyright Management and Online Video Marketing
3/2/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - Make Your Point Before Accusing The Adversary of Ill Motives — Earn the right to express moral disapprobation
3/1/2009 Michael B. Goldsmith and Jay L. Silverberg - Law and Practice: The Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act of 2008
3/1/2009 Peter G. Verniero and Gary W. Herschman - Editorial - Supporting Hospitals: Saving Lives and The Economy, Too
2/2/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - Shorthand References Should Guide, Not Divert — Use them discretely when necessary
2/1/2009 David W. Kiefer - Contractors Should Approach Any New Federal Funding For Infrastructure With A Proper Understanding Of The Scope Of The False Claims Act
1/25/2009 Peter G. Verniero - Op-Ed Contributor - The Sunday Star-Ledger - Leave Judgments to History
1/12/2009 Valerie A. Hamilton - Facing the Going Out of Business Sale
1/12/2009 Mark J. Rosenberg - Using Trademarks in Affiliate Marketing
1/5/2009 Kenneth F. Oettle - To Find the Focal Point for Your Attack, Find the Forest — Look for the most serious affront to the moral matrix
12/15/2008 Beth S. Rose and Stuart M. Feinblatt - The Relationship Between The Products Liability Act and The Consumer Fraud Act
12/8/2008 David W. Garland - Title VII Bars Discrimination Against An Employee For Having An Abortion
12/1/2008 Scott B. Murray - Working with Government Agencies in Antitrust Law
12/1/2008 Anthony Argiropoulos - Business Interference: From The Outside And Inside
12/1/2008 Gary W. Herschman and Jack Wenik - Fraud and Compliance Developments
12/1/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - In Case Summaries, Make Your Point Sooner Rather Than Later
12/1/2008 Gary W. Herschman - Important Nursing Home Compliance Issues in the OIG's New Supplemental Compliance Guidelines and 2009 Work Plan
11/24/2008 Jason L. Jurkevich - Pollution Exclusion in D&O Policy Bars Coverage for What You Do, Not What You Say
11/21/2008 Peter G. Verniero - Op-Ed Contributor - Hoping for a Dawn of a New Bipartisanship
11/3/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - A Paragraph Should Make a Point Quickly and Compactly — Subject matter and purpose dictate the length
10/30/2008 Mark J. Rosenberg - Using Trademarks in Internet Marketing
10/27/2008 Stuart M. Feinblatt - State Products Liability Act: The FDA Rebuttable Presumption
10/13/2008 Ira A. Rosenberg and Boris I. Mankovetskiy - Licensee Beware: Life Sciences, Intellectual Property and Licensor's Bankruptcy
10/1/2008 Peter G. Verniero and Bruce I. Goldstein - Roundtable: Part II - Corporate Internal Investigations: Later Stages
10/1/2008 Anjana D. Patel - Are Your Medical Directorships Legitimate?
9/29/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Remove Subordinate Thoughts That Occlude Your Point — Crispness tends to be better than embellishment
9/15/2008 Gary W. Herschman and Anjana D. Patel - Special Due Diligence and Contracting Issues With Health Care Business Acquisitions
9/8/2008 Robert J. Alter - Doctrines of Manifest Injustice and Dedication of Property for Public Use Clarified
9/1/2008 Peter G. Verniero and Bruce I. Goldstein - Roundtable: Part I - Corporate Internal Investigations: Early Stages
9/1/2008 Anjana D. Patel - Court Analyzes First Case Under Stark's Academic Medical Center Exception
9/1/2008 Anjana D. Patel - CMS Publishes Major Changes to the Stark Law
9/1/2008 Gary W. Herschman and Alexandra Miller Khorover - The New Code
9/1/2008 Gary W. Herschman - State and Federal Regulators Intensify Focus on Medicaid Compliance Issues
8/25/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Dross Disappears and Points Emerge as Groupings Improve — Beware of bland connectors like “In addition”
8/18/2008 Steven E. Gross and Arlene Elgart Mirsky - The Appropriate Time for Separate and Independent Counsel
8/1/2008 Mark J. Rosenberg - Developing Effective Affiliate Policies
7/28/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don’t Let Advocacy Get Personal — Be wary of ascribing motives you suspect but cannot prove
7/9/2008 Peter G. Verniero - Hard Fight to a Decision in Gun Control Debate, and Nobody Was Shot
7/1/2008 Ted Zangari - The Path To New Jersey's Future
7/1/2008 Gary W. Herschman - Hospitals Hit Hard in Recent Government Enforcement Actions
6/23/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Subheadings in the Statement of Facts Guide and Persuade — Internal markers help readers sort and retain data
6/20/2008 Ted Zangari - Extending Permits Would Help Boost Sagging Economy
6/18/2008 David W. Garland - NLRB: An Employer May Restrict a Union's Use of its Email System
6/16/2008 James M. Hirschhorn - The Subprime Impact on the Foreclosure Defense in New Jersey
6/9/2008 Peter G. Verniero - Op-Ed Contributer - The Star-Ledger - Roberts Court Defying Labels
6/2/2008 Mark S. Olinsky and Gary W. Herschman - NJ's next wave of health care enforcement (and preparing for it now)
6/2/2008 Rachel Mayerson - Mentoring: For Summer and Beyond
5/28/2008 Clint Kakstys - White Paper - David and Goliath: Antigua v. United States and Cross-Border Gambling
5/26/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Use Adjectives Sparingly But For Maximum Effect — Look for modifiers that reinforce your theme
5/16/2008 Gary W. Herschman and Alexandra Miller Khorover - New Joint Commission Standard Requires Closer Monitoring of Hospital Contractors
5/12/2008 Peter G. Verniero - Delivering Pro Bono Services in New Jersey: What, Why and How?
5/1/2008 David W. Kiefer - Avoiding FCA Liability on Public Projects
5/1/2008 Jiri Janko - New Jersey's Paid Family Leave Bill And Recent LAD Amendment - What's The 411?
5/1/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Choose an Approach That Will Appeal to the Court's Conscience
5/1/2008 David W. Garland - Recent Federal and New Jersey Laws Expand Employee Rights
4/29/2008 Thomas Kane - Class Certification in Consumer Product RICO Cases
4/20/2008 Peter G. Verniero - Op-Ed Contributor - The Star-Ledger - It's Folly to Label Judges
4/20/2008 Andrew H. Sherman - Issues to Watch For - From Retail to Real Estate
4/14/2008 Ira A. Rosenberg and Lori M. Waldron - Licensing From Universities: A Licensee's Perspective
4/14/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Look for Opportunities To Delete 'Any' — The intensifier is usually gratuitous
4/2/2008 Anjana D. Patel - Stark Law Update: Phase III Rule
4/1/2008 Simon Kimmelman and Valerie A. Hamilton - A Paper Tiger: The Reclaiming Seller In Bankruptcy
3/31/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Be Willing to Declare Causation — Assertiveness shows confidence and aids clarity
3/17/2008 David W. Garland - What Are Employers To Do About the New Social Media
3/4/2008 Mark S. Olinsky - Defending Qui Tam Suits Under New Jersey's New False Claims Act
3/4/2008 Andrew H. Sherman and Boris I. Mankovetskiy - Is Bankruptcy The Cure For Distressed Hospitals?
3/3/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Avoid Double Negatives Because They Tend to Confuse — Positive statements are easier to grasp
3/2/2008 Peter G. Verniero - Op-Ed Contributor - The Star-Ledger - U.S. Supreme Court Nomination Process Too Polarized
3/1/2008 Anjana D. Patel - Vetting Vendor Arrangements
2/7/2008 Ted Zangari - Silver Lining in the Defeat of the Stem Cell Bond Referendum
2/4/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Temper Your Jargon — Always ask yourself if the reader will know what you mean
2/1/2008 Lori M. Waldron - Licensing From Universities: Identifying And Managing Unique Issues
2/1/2008 Anjana D. Patel - OIG Approves Hospital Program to Pay Physicians for On-Call Service
1/28/2008 Thomas Jay Hall and Robert Axel Kasuba - Will COAH's New Rules Work?
1/21/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Precision Requires Careful Evaluation — Choose the best word to deliver each component of your message
1/14/2008 Andrew H. Sherman and Boris I. Mankovetskiy - Prognosis Negative
1/7/2008 Kenneth F. Oettle - Use Emphasis To Overcome the Reader’s Resistance — Repetition and word placement help drive the point home
1/1/2008 Philip R. White and James M. Hirschhorn - What The "Subprime Crisis" Really Means For Your Business
1/1/2008 Andrew H. Sherman - Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Law 2008
12/24/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Advocacy Targets Human Tendencies — Readers are vulnerable to tactics that would be lost on computers
12/17/2007 Beth S. Rose - The New Labeling Law: FDA's Authority to Regulate Label Changes and What It Means to the Pharmaceutical Industry
12/10/2007 Robert J. Alter - Tax Advisers Face Greater Scrutiny
12/3/2007 Anjana D. Patel and Alexandra Miller Khorover - Physician-Vendor Arrangements: Legal Compliance Challenges
12/1/2007 Anjana D. Patel - Medical Directorships: Increased OIG Scrutiny Highlights Importance of Structuring Compliant Agreements
11/26/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Unsupported Conclusions Are Not a Good Way To Begin — Step down off your soapbox and mingle with the facts
11/12/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don’t Tell the Reader What To Think — If your facts are strong but not dispositive, you may wish to suggest, not declare, your conclusion
11/1/2007 David W. Garland and Jill Turner Lever - Navigating Rough Waters: The Confluence of the ADA, FMLA and Workers' Compensation Laws
11/1/2007 David W. Garland - ADEA Verdict Upheld Despite High Average Age of Replacements
11/1/2007 Anthony R. Caruso - Inside the Minds: Entertainment and Media Law Contract Strategies
10/31/2007 Peter G. Verniero - Op-Ed Contributor - The Wall Street Journal - "Supreme Court TV"
10/29/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Screen Your Metaphors for Possible Backlash — Even apt comparisons can become ‘two-edged swords’
10/22/2007 Thomas Jay Hall - Good Intentions, Bad Planning
10/8/2007 David W. Garland - Supreme Court to Address Exhaustion and Evidence Issues
10/5/2007 Jiri Janko - Linguistically Integrated Contractual Interpretation: Incorporating Semiotic Theory of Meaning-Making into Legal Interpretation
10/1/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Place ‘Only’ As Close As Possible to the Limitation It Signals — Follow the grammatical form for clarity and for appearances
9/26/2007 Peter G. Verniero - The Star-Ledger - Op-Ed Contributor - Over years, drug court has proven its worth
9/17/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - ‘Less Is More’ Is Often Wise Advice — Ask yourself if you need to say everything you are thinking
9/3/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Let the Needs of the Reader Guide Your Groupings — Be wary of easy organizational choices, such as chronology or the alphabet
9/3/2007 Clint Kakstys - A Green Mountain Miracle And The Garden State Grab: Lessons From Vermont And New Jersey On State Corporate Tax Reform
9/3/2007 Robert J. Alter - Foreign Insurers Not Subject to Retaliatory Tax
9/1/2007 Jack M. Zackin - Litigating in Bankruptcy Court
8/26/2007 Peter G. Verniero - The New York Times - Op-Ed Contributor - "Don't Give Up on Newark"
8/20/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Resist the Temptation to Demonize the Adversary — Don’t ascribe motives; let the facts reveal them
8/10/2007 Peter G. Verniero - The Washington Times - Op-Ed Contributor - "Fishing on Capitol Hill"
8/6/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - More Questions From Summer Associates — Good legal writing is a function of strategy, clarity and support, not style
7/30/2007 A. Ross Pearlson - New Limits on False Claim Act Suits
7/23/2007 Jason L. Jurkevich - A Good Deed May Go Unpunished
7/23/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Questions From Summer Associates — Strike the balance of time, effort, and expense in favor of good product
7/18/2007 William J. Tinsley, Jr. - Eyes Wide Open: Contractors Must Learn to Identify and React to Design Risks Assumed Under Performance Specifications.
7/16/2007 Anjana D. Patel and Alexandra Miller Khorover - Harmless Gift or Forbidden Fruit
7/16/2007 Kevin J. Moore - Narrowing the Scope of Redevelopment Law
7/5/2007 Peter G. Verniero - The Star-Ledger - Op-Ed Contributor - "Alito emerges as key voice on free speech"
7/1/2007 Gary W. Herschman and Alexandra Miller Khorover - Off-Campus NJ Hospital Facilities Denied Property Tax Exemption
6/25/2007 Thomas Jay Hall - Emphasizing the Action, Not the Plan
6/7/2007 Peter G. Verniero - Free Judiciary for a Free Society
6/2/2007 Andrew H. Sherman - Retaining Rights When Contractors Go Bankrupt
6/1/2007 Boris I. Mankovetskiy - What Every Licensee of Life Sciences Intellectual Property Should Know About Licensor's Bankruptcy - Part II
6/1/2007 Anthony R. Caruso - Recruting Case Takes Center Stage
5/14/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Your Audience Has Changed Since Law School — Now your job is to show why you win, not what you know
5/1/2007 Boris I. Mankovetskiy - What Every Licensee of Life Sciences Intellectual Property Should Know About Licensor's Bankruptcy - Part I
4/30/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don’t Cobble A List From Loosely Related Items — Take a moment to make sure your categories are consistent
4/18/2007 Andrew H. Sherman - What If Bankruptcy Happens?
4/16/2007 Robert Axel Kasuba - Contribution or Taking?
4/16/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Arrange Conjunctions To Maintain the Flow — ‘Because although’ is awkward because ‘although’ interrupts
4/2/2007 Thomas Jay Hall - Land Use Decisions: Fortune Favors the Prepared!
4/2/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Keep Your Transitional Hooks Subtle — Do not begin a sentence with the proper name that ended the previous sentence
4/1/2007 Philip R. White - Construction Law Settlements and Negotiations
3/26/2007 Thomas Jay Hall - Smart Bargaining or Illegal Exactions?
3/26/2007 David W. Garland - When Is a Posted Job Requirement Not Required?
3/19/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Quotations Are a Spice, Not the Main Course — Prefer your own words to those of others
3/8/2007 New Jersey Life and Health Insurance Compendium
3/6/2007 Andrew H. Sherman - Can the Enron Claims Trading Issues Be Avoided? Should You Consider Acquiring a Distribution Right?
3/1/2007 Anjana D. Patel and Alexandra Miller Khorover - Hospital-Physician Strategic Ventures
3/1/2007 Jack M. Zackin - Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring Law 2007
2/26/2007 Mark S. Olinsky and Jack Wenik - Government and Internal Investigations: Special Issues for Healthcare Providers
2/19/2007 Stuart M. Feinblatt - Global Warming: A New Litigation Frontier
2/14/2007 Gary W. Herschman and Alexandra Miller Khorover - The OIG's 2007 Work Plan: Actions Hospitals Should Undertake
2/5/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Never Relax Your Persuasive Posture — Even the conclusion can, where appropriate, make a point
2/1/2007 Mark E. Duckstein - LexisNexis New Jersey Court Rules Annotated, Part IV
1/29/2007 Mark S. Olinsky - Pharmaceutical Compliance Audit Granted Protection: Application of the Self-Critical Analysis Privilege to Compliance Reports
1/26/2007 Andrew H. Sherman - Assisting Companies in Reorganizing in the Face of Financial Difficulty
1/22/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Tailor Your Possessives to the Convenience of the Reader — Sometimes a prepositional phrase works better than an apostrophe
1/15/2007 Andrew H. Sherman - Planning for a Grim Reality: In a Real Estate Slowdown, the Key to a Reorganization Is Proper Preparation
1/14/2007 Peter G. Verniero - The New York Times- Op-Ed Contributor/"Appealed to Death"
1/8/2007 Kenneth F. Oettle - Maintain the Flow with Echoes from the Prior Sentence
1/5/2007 Gary W. Herschman and Alexandra Miller Khorover - Federal Courts Tackle Physician Recruitment Agreement Disputes
1/1/2007 Andrew H. Sherman - Why Buy A Bankruptcy Claim When You Can Acquire A Distribution Right
12/25/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - To Establish Common Ground With the Court, Begin Points with Local Law — Strategize the order of citations as you would strategize the order of witnesses
12/18/2006 Thomas Jay Hall - Return of the New Jersey State Plan: Does Anybody Care?
12/15/2006 Peter G. Verniero - Getting the government to right a wrong
12/11/2006 Stuart M. Feinblatt - Judicial Activism In Failure-To-Warn Cases
12/11/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Write the Preliminary Statement First If It Helps You Focus — Drafting an introduction can crystallize your theme
12/1/2006 Jeffrey J. Greenbaum - Reduce Costs and Protect Expert Draft Reported and Communications with Expert Witnesses - An ABA Proposal That Corporate Counsel Should Consider Supporting
12/1/2006 Beth S. Rose - Preserving The Attorney Client Privilege In Corporate America
12/1/2006 Jack M. Zackin- New Jersey Bankruptcy Law Manual
11/27/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Parallel Structure Meets the Reader’s Expectations — Use balanced prose to maintain the flow
11/13/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Focus on the Essential Flaw in Your Opponent’s Argument — Begin a response or a reply with a point, not merely a declaration of disagreement
11/6/2006 Peter G. Verniero - Justices’ Politics Fade on Bench
11/1/2006 A. Ross Pearlson & Theodora McCormick- Cyberspace: Non-Traditional Remedies for Unfair Competition And False Advertising
11/1/2006 Andrew Sherman and Boris Mankovetskiy- "Untouchable?" Treatment of Tariff-Based Claims
10/30/2006 Robert J. Alter-Supreme Court Closes a Corporate Business Tax Loophole
10/30/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Unpack Your Broad Statements To Find More Factual Support — Facts persuade; to develop more of them, expand the ones you have
10/26/2006 Mark J. Rosenberg - Avoiding the Price of Success: Maintaining legal protection for trademarks that enter the vernacular
10/23/2006 Thomas Jay Hall - Commercial Development and COAH: A Bad Mix?
10/16/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - In Memos and Letters, Deliver the Good News Up Front — Unless you would look foolish, be a pal first, not a pain
10/6/2006 David W. Garland and Jill Turner Lever - Employee Technology Policies: Privacy vs. Pernicious Behavior
10/2/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Trust Your Reader To Fill In Some Blanks — Implicit steps of a procedural history can usually be omitted
10/1/2006 Mark S. Olinsky - The Real Message of Stein: Corporate Cooperation Does Not Require Capitulation
10/1/2006 Gary W. Herschman and Anjana D. Patel - Put It in Writing and Pay Fair Market Value! Enforcement of Anti-kickback and Stark Laws
9/18/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Follow Blue Book Style; It’s Not That Hard — Add another skill to your résumé as a writer
9/4/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - When Working by Analogy, Elaborate the Comparison — Spell out your analogies to make them unassailable
9/4/2006 Robert J. Alter-State Tax Controversies
9/1/2006 Anjana D. Patel - Gainsharing - Past, Present, and Future
9/1/2006 Thomas S. Novak - The Defense Obligation of Excess and Umbrella Liability Insurance Policies
8/27/2006 Peter G. Verniero - A win for corporations facing prosecution
8/21/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Where Else Would a Court Rule But ‘In Its Opinion’? In stating the obvious, you may be sidestepping the point
8/7/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Be Cautious Using Nouns as Adjectives — A string of modifying nouns makes a heavy meal
8/1/2006 Jason K. Gross - Internet Gambling & The Law – Prohibition vs. Regulation
8/1/2006 Gary W. Herschman and Anjana D. Patel - Increasing OIG scrutiny of medical director agreements
7/31/2006 Ira A. Rosenberg and Lori M. Waldron - Fierce Pharma Competition Fosters Partnerships
7/24/2006 Jason K. Gross - Compliance Counsel and "Off-Label" Issues
7/20/2006 Peter G. Verniero - Justices show they can't be typecast as legislators
7/14/2006 Athena Cheng - From Poker to the Pokey: The Laws Governing Online Gambling
7/10/2006 Jack Wenik - Establishing Causation
7/1/2006 Steven R. Kamen - SPACs Show Impressive Growth In The Investment Community And IPO Markets
6/29/2006 Peter G. Verniero - Prosecuting irresponsible media is not the remedy
6/26/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Jealously Guard Your Credibility With the Court — An untrustworthy act is like ink in the wash — it discolors everything
6/12/2006 Thomas Jay Hall - Land Use Policy Scrutinized
6/12/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Use Underlining for Emphasis, Not for Editorializing — Highlight quotations, not your own prose
6/1/2006 David W. Garland - Computer Fraud And Abuse Act: Another Arrow In The Quiver Of An Employer Faced With A Disloyal Employee – Part II
6/1/2006 Paul H. Shur - "Parties to Second Lien Financing - Will Their Expectations Be Met in a Workout?"
6/1/2006 Beth S. Rose & Vincent Lodato - "Emerging Litigation Involving Human Research Subjects: A Future for Class Actions?"
5/29/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Take Control of Your Quotations, Don’t Let Them Control You — Delete or substitute for words that are awkward or may confuse
5/15/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Summarize Statutes and Rules Before Quoting Them — Control your material and thus the reader’s perspective
5/3/2006 Paul H. Shur - "Workout Expectations of Parties to Second Lien Financing Deals"
5/1/2006 David W. Garland - Computer Fraud And Abuse Act: Another Arrow In The Quiver Of An Employer Faced With A Disloyal Employee – Part I
5/1/2006 Beth S. Rose and Steven R. Rowland - Choosing New Jersey
5/1/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Be Cautious Using ‘And’ as a Connector — Look for relationships beyond the additive
5/1/2006 Jack Wenik - Corporate compliance and the reporting of crime and misconduct
4/25/2006 Peter G. Verniero - Judge-bashing threatens courts and democracy
4/17/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Carefully Craft Your Sets and Subsets — Make sure the items in a list are of the same kind and size
4/10/2006 David W. Garland - Retaliatory Harassment Under Title VII
4/3/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Unpack Your Generalizations For Greater Effect — Where possible, create images for the reader to visualize
3/27/2006 Thomas Jay Hall - Good Planning and Land Use
3/20/2006 Kevin J. Moore - Historic Due Diligence Is Now a Necessity
3/20/2006 Stuart M. Feinblatt - Maintaining Control
3/20/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Do Not Make a Thought Long Just Because It Is Good — Unnecessary elaboration can produce a net loss rather than a net gain
3/6/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - ‘Rather’ Is an Unnecessary, Annoying Signal — In most instances, the change in direction is obvious
3/6/2006 Andrew H. Sherman - Health Care Bankruptcy Prescription for 2006
3/2/2006 Peter G. Verniero - Philadelphia Inquirer - N.J. Court's Legacy Rests in Judgments
3/1/2006 Jeffrey H. Newman - Best + Efforts = ?
2/20/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Misinterpreting Cases Is an Occupational Hazard — Beware of both wishful thinking and defeatism
2/12/2006 Robert Axel Kasuba - Concerns with COAH’s Substantive Regulations
2/6/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don’t Twist Your Prose into a Pretzel — Remedy awkwardly passive phrasing by changing the subject
2/1/2006 David W. Garland - Preservation and Production: Don't Forget the Metadata
2/1/2006 David W. Garland - Third Circuit Sets Penalties for WARN Violations
1/30/2006 Anthony R. Caruso -Commentary - The New NBA Wardrobe: Less Bling Is an Enforceable Thing
1/23/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - ‘Which’ Is Often Incorrectly Used in Place of ‘That’ — Get the words straight to please the purists
1/9/2006 Robert J. Alter - There. But still here. Taxing economic presence
1/9/2006 Kenneth F. Oettle - Good Editing Is Important, But Solid Preparation Is Key — Thorough research and analysis reduces work on the back end
1/1/2006 Jack M. Zackin - The Intersection Of Bankruptcy Law And Health Care Regulation
12/26/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Mind Your P’s and Q’s and the Apostrophes That Go With Them — The little mark is a detail worth attention
12/12/2005 Anjana D. Patel - Are Gainsharing Agreements Here to Stay?
12/12/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Look Behind the Quotation for the Rationale — Supply reasons even if your quoted source did not
12/5/2005 Beth S. Rose - Class Actions and Vioxx: Perfect Together?
11/28/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Brief Writing Requires a Formal Style — A casual tone may suggest you don’t take your case seriously
11/14/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Spell Out the Facts Embedded in Your Generalizations — To do the right thing, the court needs to know the facts
11/3/2005 Peter G. Verniero - A mistake to judge Alito by a label - It's better to look at personal traits than a paper trail
11/1/2005 David W. Garland - Leave Policy That Treats Pregnancy The Same As Other Temporary Disabilities Is Not Discriminatory
11/1/2005 Boris Mankovetskiy - Licensee Beware: How Bankruptcy Can Strip a Licensee of the Right to Use Its Software
11/1/2005 Philip R. White and David W. Kiefer - Overcoming Anxiety in Light of a New Legal Landscape
11/1/2005 Jack M. Zackin- Winning Legal Strategies for Bankruptcy and Restructuring
10/31/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - When Editing Time Is Limited, Perform a Triage — Begin by confirming your purpose and your dominant point
10/26/2005 Peter G. Verniero - New Jersey Search-and-Seizure Law: A Recent Perspective
10/17/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - When Writing a Memo, Keep the Reader in Mind — Dispel preconceptions as quickly as possible
10/3/2005 Peter G. Verniero - THE STAR-LEDGER - Op-Ed - The Supreme Court, in living color
10/3/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Curb Your Editorial Urges — Consider carefully how you describe a court’s actions
10/1/2005 David W. Garland and Jill Turner Lever - Excluding Contraceptives from a Prescription Plan - a Risky Position
9/26/2005 Thomas Jay Hall - Twenty Years of State Planning: Where Are We Going?
9/19/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Seek Feedback on Your Work for a Fresh Perspective — When you give feedback, make sure it is received
9/12/2005 Beth S. Rose - Meeting E-Discovery Challenges
9/7/2005 Peter G. Verniero - The court: Better a branch than a twig
9/5/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Law Firm Writing Programs Are a Challenge — The results are uncertain, and the time is non-billable
9/5/2005 Robert J. Alter - Corporate Business Tax, Farmland Assessment Act Examined
9/1/2005 Philip Y. Braginsky - The U.S. Technology Sector Is Alive And Well
8/22/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Some Commas Should Neither Be Seen Nor Heard — Don’t place a comma between subject and verb
8/8/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Choose an Approach That Will Appeal to the Court's Conscience — Show that the other side 'deserves' to lose
8/1/2005 Peter G. Verniero - The Erosion of Attorney-Client Privilege
8/1/2005 Peter G. Verniero - Sarbanes-Oxley Three Years On: An Evolving Compliance Structure
8/1/2005 Peter G. Verniero - The Effects Of The Andersen Decision In Today's Market
7/25/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - A Rose By Any Other Name Might Not Be as Popular — The lawyer’s job is to find the optimum spin
7/11/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - The Need for Clarity May Override the Risk of Exaggeration — Don’t be afraid to make an overstatement that you quickly qualify
7/1/2005 David W. Garland - Roth 401(k) Accounts Are Ripe For An Employer’s Consideration
6/27/2005 Peter G. Verniero - THE STAR-LEDGER Op-Ed - Legal limits to a sue-for-anything culture
6/27/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Skip the Unnecessary Tack-On Explanation — Stating the obvious slows the pace
6/23/2005 Peter G. Verniero - THE STAR-LEDGER Op-Ed - Shunning activism, court brings certainty to eminent domain
6/20/2005 Thomas J. Hall - Landowner Equity is Missing in the Highlands
6/20/2005 James M. Hirschhorn - A Cheer and a Half for the Property Tax
6/13/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Precision Brings Your Idea to a ‘Point’ — Save the reader the trouble of sorting through multiple meanings
6/1/2005 Andrew H. Sherman and Boris I. Mankovetskiy - Highlights of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
5/30/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Be Wary of the ‘In Order to’ or ‘To’ Construction — It is a common source of non sequiturs
5/16/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - End Sentences with Your Most Important Thought — The last word delivers the greatest impact
5/2/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Be Brief but Not Brusque in Your Shorthand References — Anticipate the reader’s likely reaction to your terms
5/1/2005 Jeffrey J. Greenbaum and James M. Hirschhorn - District Court Recognizes That Class Actions Against Not-For-Profit Hospitals Cannot Solve The Problem Of Funding Affordable Health Care For Uninsured Patients
5/1/2005 Ted Zangari - Controlling Rental Costs Through Lease Audits
5/1/2005 Philip R. White - Owners Should Make Early Decisions on Major Construction
4/25/2005 A. Ross Pearlson - Keeping Self-Critical Documents Confidential
4/18/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Tighten Your Work by Omission and Compression — Eliminate thoughts you don’t need and streamline the ones you do
4/10/2005 Peter G. Verniero - If Terri Schiavo had lived in New Jersey
4/4/2005 Robert Axel Kasuba - Affordable Housing Should Be Non-Negotiable
4/4/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Typos Undermine Your Credibility and Your Case — To catch mistakes, let your product sit or find a second set of eyes
4/1/2005 Ted Zangari - Controlling Rental Costs Through Lease Audits
3/28/2005 David W. Garland - Litigating Whistleblowing Claims in the Post-Enron Environment
3/21/2005 Andrew H. Sherman - The Preference Problem
3/21/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Sometimes the Illogical Is Very Logical — Off-point arguments can be persuasive if they address fundamental fairness
3/14/2005 Robert J. Alter - Tax Advisors Face Stricter Rules
3/11/2005 Kevin J. Moore - RAD financing: A method to avoid developer - municipality stand-offs
3/7/2005 Thomas Jay Hall - Land Use Law in 2005: The View From Here
3/7/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Tell a More Powerful Story in the Active Voice — Use active verbs to convey a sense of fault or failure
3/1/2005 Gary W. Herschman - OIG Supplements Compliance Program Guidance
3/1/2005 Thomas Jay Hall, Kevin J. Moore and Ted Zangari - Opinion: Some Good News for Developers
2/28/2005 Thomas Jay Hall, Kevin J. Moore and Ted Zangari - A Modest Prescription for Land Use Reform
2/21/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Misusing Sets and Subsets — Don’t try to make two facts seem like three
2/7/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Favor Facts Over Law for Initial Reader Contact — If you can, use metaphors to interest the reader and intensify the image
2/3/2005 Peter G. Verniero - Combating Fraud, But At What Price?
2/1/2005 Bennet Susser - Non-Physician Research Chemist May Provide Expert Medical Causation Testimony and Government Contractor Defense Extends to Nonmilitary Contractors
1/24/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Develop Momentum By Tapping the Reader’s Emotions — Among other things, seek agreement with the reader early on
1/23/2005 Peter G. Verniero - Letting Judges Be The Judge
1/10/2005 Kenneth F. Oettle - Maximize Impact By Making One Point at a Time — In writing as in art and music, less is sometimes more
1/6/2005 David W. Garland - Best Practices to Minimize Whistleblower Risks
1/1/2005 R. Max Crane and Peter G. Verniero - Attorney-Client Privilege Under Assault
12/27/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Dashes Are Powerful Punctuation Marks — They add a third option to commas and parentheses
12/13/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Though Detail Is Usually Helpful, It Can Be Overdone — Include what the reader needs to know and trim the rest
12/1/2004 R. Max Crane - In-House Counsel's "Constituencies" Professional Obligations In The Post Sarbanes-Oxley World Here Come The Regulators
12/1/2004 Gary W. Herschman - The OIG's 2005 Work Plan and Actions Hospitals Should Undertake
12/1/2004 Peter G. Verniero - Bringing Multiple Talents To Corporate Investigations
11/29/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Evaluating an Applicant’s Writing Ability — A writing sample can provide a window into a job candidate’s skills
11/15/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - You Don’t Need Intensifiers To Mark the Absence of Evidence — Emphatics such as ‘whatsoever’ tend not to persuade
11/1/2004 Joseph L. Buckley - Best Practices For Maintaining The Attorney-Client Privilege In Email Communications
11/1/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don’t Be Afraid to Make Your Own Dicta — Sometimes you have to declare what the case law merely implies
11/1/2004 Gary W. Herschman - OIG/DOJ Enter into Stark, Anti-Kickback and FCA Settlement Based on Hospital-Physician Relationship
11/1/2004 Jeffrey H. Newman and Mark S. Levenson - "Sale-Leaseback Transactions in the “Corporate Scandal” Era"
10/18/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - If a Square Peg Won’t Fit, Try a Round One — The rationale for a rule may support you though the words do not
10/4/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Skip the Generalities and Go Straight to the Specifics — Don’t make the reader wait as you home in on your point
10/1/2004 David W. Garland - Avoiding Sanctions In Electronic Discovery
10/1/2004 Gary W. Herschman – There’s No Profiting from a Joint Venture Misadventure
10/1/2004 David W. Garland - "Arbitration Is for Some But Not All”
9/24/2004 Kevin J. Moore - A brief examination of the new Smart Growth Act reveals a flaw
9/20/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don’t Take Pot Shots at Court or Counsel — Gratuitous zingers are offensive and unpersuasive
9/13/2004 Basic Computer Knowledge Is Crucial — To respond to electronic discovery or to formulate it, counsel needs to understand computer systems
9/6/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Precision Begets Persuasion — The more precise you are in support of your point, the greater the chance you will persuade
9/6/2004 Mark S. Olinsky - Trademark Confusion Is Not Just About Misdispensed Prescriptions
9/1/2004 Kevin J. Moore - Making a Par on a Golf Turnover
8/23/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Preliminary Statements Should Focus on the Facts — Be selective rather than comprehensive
8/9/2004 Ross Pearlson and Jack Wenik - Are Defendants Better Off Under Blakely?
8/9/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Show Every Step of Your Reasoning on Key Points — Elaborating the obvious isn’t necessarily beating a dead horse
8/2/2004 R. Max Crane - Going Private Transactions: A serious alternative for small and midsized public companies
8/1/2004 Barry M. Epstein, Stuart J. Glick, Jeffrey J. Greenbaum and Mark S. Olinsky - "E-Discovery: A Guide For Corporate Counsel – Sills Cummis’ Contribution To The Discussion On Electronic Discovery – Part II"
8/1/2004 Philip R. White - "A Legal Perspective on the Use and Abuse of Schedules"
8/1/2004 Thomas Kane - "Claim Splitting" in Class Actions: Should Defense Counsel Care?
7/26/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Use Quotation Marks to Focus the Reader’s Attention — The punctuation should go with the flow rather than interrupt it
7/23/2004 Kevin J. Moore - Brownfield Financing Opportunities in New Jersey
7/12/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Take Control of Statutes by Summarizing Them — You may need to offload much of what the legislators lump in
7/1/2004 Barry M. Epstein, Stuart J. Glick, Jeffrey J. Greenbaum and Mark S. Olinsky - "E-Discovery: A Guide For Corporate Counsel – Sills Cummis’ Contribution To The Discussion On Electronic Discovery – Part I"
7/1/2004 David W. Garland - "DOL Adopts Final Rule Modifying FLSA Overtime Exemptions for White Collar Employees"
6/28/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Free Yourself From the ‘It’ Syndrome — A missing antecedent may give the reader pause
6/14/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Be Upbeat But Not Pollyannish — In memos that deliver bad news, you should spin, not pander
6/1/2004 Jason K. Gross - Casino Gaming is Coming to a Racetrack Near You
5/31/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Check Your Lists for Logical Structure — Lists may not emerge from your brain fully formed
5/17/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - You Need to Sweat the Small Stuff — Minor usage mistakes can be major blemishes
5/3/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Eliminate ‘There Is’ and ‘There Are’ — Directive phrases, useful in speech, are rarely needed in legal writing
5/3/2004 Jeffrey J. Greenbaum - "The future of class actions in New Jersey"
4/19/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Reasons Persuade: Conclusions Do Not — Give reasons to back up your positional statements
4/5/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Look Within for the Premise of Your Argument — You can determine what the court is likely to deem fair
3/29/2004 Thomas Jay Hall - Storm-Water Regs Target Land Use
3/22/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Discretionary Punctuation Should Achieve Clarity and Flow
3/12/2004 Beth S. Rose and Vincent Lodato - "The Role of Class Actions in Litigation Involving Human Research Subjects"
3/8/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Trim the Facts To Bring Out The Essence of Your Case — You may not need marginal facts to make your point
3/8/2004 Thomas Jay Hall - COAH Publishes Proposed New Regulations On Affordable Housing Policy: Now What?
3/1/2004 Gary W. Herschman - How to Structure a Compliant Hospital-Physician ASC
3/1/2004 David W. Garland - When Arbitration Works
2/23/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Know When It Is Time To Rewrite Rather Than Edit — Sometimes you have to clean house
2/9/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Use Brackets To Alter a Quotation — You can substitute words to improve clarity
1/26/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - You Have To Walk a Mile in the Reader’s Shoes — To judge your own work, imagine you are the reader
12/29/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Even Procedural Histories Can Be Persuasive — Take any opportunity to highlight good facts
12/15/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Writing Is a Self-Analytical Process — Quiz yourself relentlessly and without mercy as you compose
12/15/2003 Gary W. Herschman - The OIG's 2004 Work Plan
12/1/2003 Kenneth Oettle - Thorough Editing Proceeds in Stages — Your initial changes may reveal more opportunities for improvement
12/1/2003 Gary W. Herschman - The OIG's 2004 Work Plan and Eight Actions Hospitals Should Undertake
11/17/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - 'However' Is Usually an Unnecessary Signal — Negation or limitation may be obvious without it.
11/3/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - You May Need To Reorganize Your Thoughts After Recording Them — Be wary of digressions, which divert the reader
11/1/2003 David W. Garland - “Asserting the Direct Threat Defense Under The Americans With Disabilities Act: What An Employer Should Know,”
10/20/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - In Case Write-Ups, Get Quickly to the Holding — Then decide how much of the court’s reasoning to present
10/6/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Characterize Your Time Intervals To Take Control of the Facts
10/1/2003 Steven E. Gross - A Practical Guide for Non U.S. Companies - Considerations in Acquiring a U.S. Target
10/1/2003 Gary W. Herschman – When QA Documents Are Privileged
9/29/2003 Thomas Jay Hall - ‘Growth Share’ Approach to Affordable Housing Paves Way for Less Growth
9/22/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Your Writing Is a Barometer of Your Thinking — Drafts reveal when you haven’t grappled with or mastered an issue
9/8/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - In a Memo, the Short Answer Should Get Immediately to the Point — Busy lawyers appreciate brevity and directness
9/1/2003 Jay L. Silverberg - Acquisitions of Troubled Businesses
8/25/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Use ‘Accordingly,’ ‘Thus’ and ‘Therefore’ Sparingly — The context usually supplies the connection
8/11/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Grammatical Patterns Dictate the Reader’s Response — Arrange your sentences to account for embedded reactions
8/8/2003 Mark S. Levenson - "Who Pays for Blackouts?"
7/28/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Weak Arguments Are Pellets for the Shotgun Approach — Fight the temptation to include them ‘just in case’
7/22/2003 Ted Zangari - Ins and Outs of Street Retail in Mixed-Use Assets
7/14/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Which Comes First: the Chicken or the Egg? — Sometimes you lead with your point, and sometimes you lead up to it
6/30/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don’t Be Afraid To Characterize the Facts — The perspective you supply will assist and persuade the reader
6/16/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - If You Have More Than One Dispositive Point, Let the Reader Know Up Front — An overview provides power and aids comprehension
6/16/2003 Thomas Jay Hall - The Supreme Court Shortens the Lives of Approved Projects
6/2/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Footnotes Are Where the Horse Is Buried — Think twice about using substantive footnotes in briefs
6/1/2003 Philip R. White - Equitable Adjustment Allowed for Deductive Change Despite Contractor’s Unbalanced Bid
6/1/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - "Should I Change Horses In Mid-Stream? Deciding Whether To Hire Appellate Counsel"
5/19/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - 'Indeed,' 'Simply' and 'Certain' Are Unnecessary Additives
5/1/2003 Stuart J. Glick - Bankruptcy “Proofing” Litigation Settlements: Can It Be Done?
4/21/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - To Get to the Point, Get to the Verb — Avoid the 'start-stop' syndrome
4/7/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Create a Parallel Universe for Rhythm and Reinforcement — A balanced structure can also improve clarity
4/1/2003 R. Max Crane - Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into The Water: More SEC Rules and Regulations For Counsel To Implement - Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 - Parts I & II
3/24/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Begin Paragraphs With Ideas Rather Than Case Names — 'In Smith v. Jones' is a tempting but weak transition
3/17/2003 Thomas Jay Hall - There's a New Map in Town
3/10/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - The Writing Process Begins with Getting the Assignment Straight — Smart writers stop and ask for directions
3/1/2003 Steven E. Gross: An Interview, “Sills Cummis: A Law Firm With Global Credentials in the Pharma/Med-Tech Industry,”
3/1/2003 Thomas Kane - The Rise (and Possibly Fall) of Consumer Protection Class Actions
2/24/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - When Tracking Statutes and Rules, Use Only What You Need — Verbatim recitation is comforting but often unnecessary
2/10/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Grouping and Subordination Help Guide and Persuade the Reader — Use bags and baskets to present your facts and arguments
2/1/2003 Gary W. Herschman - OIG 2003 Work Plan Ready For SNFs
1/27/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Commas Enhance Clarity and Regulate the Flow of Your Writing — If used improperly, they can confuse and irritate the reader
1/13/2003 Kenneth F. Oettle - Use Smaller Categories to Convey Precise Information — Offering unnecessary alternatives creates ambiguity
12/30/2002 Kenneth F. Oettle - Give a Quotation a Good Introduction — A short summary guides the reader and enlists the power of repetition.
12/17/2002 Kenneth F. Oettle - Transition by Repetition: Take One Step Back To Go Two Steps Forward — Transitions are transparent to the reader but good for the flow
12/2/2002 Kenneth F. Oettle - Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? — Permissive and restrictive words give different slants to the same rule
12/1/2002 Kenneth R. Schachter and Sophia A. Murbhai, “How Will Tasini Impact The Future”
11/18/2002 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don't Take Refuge in 'Common Sense' — Like the phrase 'it is important to note,' it may indicate fuzzy thinking
11/4/2002 Kenneth F. Oettle - Point Headings Should Persuade — Crisply stated gists help the court follow the argument's direction
11/1/2002 Lawrence S. Horn - Tax Man Cometh
11/1/2002 David W. Garland - N.J. Supreme Court Joins Mainstream on Arbitration of Employment Disputes
10/21/2002 Kenneth F. Oettle - Don't Give Your Adversaries Free Airtime
10/7/2002 Kenneth F. Oettle - Exaggerations, Disparagements and Other Intensifiers
10/1/2002 Mark S. Levenson - Sale Leaseback Transaction After Enron And Worldcom — A Tougher Landscape
10/1/2002 Jeffrey H. Newman and Mark S. Levenson - "Sale-Leaseback Transactions After Enron and Worldcom – A Tougher Landscape"
9/30/2002 Thomas Jay Hall - 'Mount Laurel' Litigation: The Next Chapter
9/1/2002 Steven E. Gross and R. Max Crane - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 - Will You be Prepared When Your CEO Calls
6/18/2002 Thomas Jay Hall - And Not a Drop to Drink — The drought has brought utility infrastructure to the fore in the land development process
3/18/2002 Thomas Jay Hall - "Smart Growth" — The Next Big Thing?
3/11/2002 Paul H. Shur - "UCC Article 9 revisions in effect in New Jersey"
3/1/2002 Gary W. Herschman - Keeping Pain Control Out Of The Courts
1/1/2002 Gary W. Herschman - Complying With OIG's 2002 Work Plan
12/1/2001 Jeffrey H. Newman - Designation Rights: A New Twist on an Old Impairment of Landlord's Rights in Bankruptcy Cases
11/1/2001 Andrew H. Sherman and James M. Hirschhorn - Management Stock Option Programs in Bankruptcy Cases: Let the Market Be Your Guide
10/1/2001 Thomas Jay Hall - The Death of Comprehensive Planning
9/1/2001 Thomas Jay Hall - Back To The Cities: A Room For A Million
12/1/2000 Arlene Elgart Mirsky - "The New Global Community"
9/1/2000 Jeffrey H. Newman and James M. Hirschhorn - "Managing Free Expression at Shopping Centers: A Landlord’s Practical Guide, Leader’s"
3/13/2000 Thomas Jay Hall - Suburban Sprawl's New Flow Regulators
5/1/1999 Rachel Lin - Salvage Rights and Intellectual Property: Are Copyright and Trademark Rights Included in the Salvage Rights to the R.M.S. Titanic?
3/22/1999 David W. Garland - The Affirmative Defense: Faragher and Ellerth’s Impact on New Jersey Employers
1/1/1999 Paul H. Shur - "New Article 9: A Commercial Lawyer's Synopsis"
1/1/1999 Thomas Kane - Malice, Lies, and Videotape: Revisiting New York Times v. Sullivan in the Modern Age of Political Campaigns
11/1/1998 Arlene Elgart Mirsky - "Enterprise Insolvency and Creditor Protection" One of 5 World Bank policy notes on Enterprise Reform in Russia prepared for the Government of Russia
8/21/1996 Peter G. Verniero - Ellis Island, N.J.
6/26/1995 Anthony R. Caruso - How To Succeed in Local Redevelopment
1/1/1995 Thomas S. Novak - "Forum Selection Opportunities in Coverage Disputes Where Your Carrier Agreed To Defend You Anywhere In The World"
5/1/1993 Thomas S. Novak - "Appellate Division Holds that an Interlocutory Order Deciding Less than the Entirety of a Claim Against an Insolvent Insurer Is Not Appealable as of Right"
1/1/1993 Paul H. Shur - "Reclaiming Possession of Leased or Sold Goods"
1/1/1987 Paul H. Shur - "Equipment Lease or Security Agreement: Determining the Parties' Intent"


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