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May 24, 2013

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Hiring Summer Interns? Make Sure You Do it Right

School's out for summer, and there's a rush of young students and recent graduates looking for internships. But businesses that don't compensate interns for the work they perform can end up paying a big price down the road.

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ACC Weighs in on Arizona's In-House Pro Bono Rules

The Association of Corporate Counsel wants Arizona to make it easier for in-house counsel to provide pro bono legal services in the state—and they're pushing the Arizona Supreme Court to adopt rule changes that would do just that.

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Protect Expectations with an Adequate Assurances Provision

An often-overlooked issue in contract drafting is whether to include a provision giving each party the right to demand adequate assurances of performance in the event the counterparty's performance becomes uncertain.

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Whipping Outside Counsel for Poor Tech Training

D. Casey Flaherty, corporate counsel at Kia Motors America, really does have good intentions as he humiliates Big Law firms about their dismal technology skills—but he is careful not to embarrass a partner.

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Vermont Becomes First State to Sue a 'Patent Troll'

Vermont has become the first state in the nation to file a so-called "patent troll" lawsuit, taking action Wednesday against a company that has written to a number of businesses claiming patents to technology that attaches scanned documents to e-mails over company computer networks.

Does a Graduate Law Degree Increase a Lawyer's Value?

Today, LL.M. degrees, a.k.a. Masters of Law, or, for the fancy, the Latin name Legum Magister, are offered in a variety of legal specialties ranging from trial advocacy to intellectual property to international law to taxation.

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EEOC Gets Tough With Companies on Genetic Privacy

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has started filing suits against employers for violating the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. Companies need to get up to speed on GINA, ASAP.

The GC and the Compensation Committee

There is nothing about the board's executive compensation committee that justifies excluding the one person who should absolutely be part of the process: the company's general counsel.

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Taking the Reins of Legal Department Operations

The recently established Institute for Law Department Excellence is on a mission to enable in-house attorneys to practice law, and to help those in key operations roles to learn from each other.

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Best Legal Departments 2013

The 2013 winners of our annual Best Legal Departments competition all have one trait in common: they are really, really passionate about the work they do.

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