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• Writing Arbitration Clauses To Get The Arbitration You Want

  

  Agreeing to arbitration clauses can be complicated because you may risk locking in a factually incorrect judgment. Merril Hirsh and Nicholas Schuchert of Troutman Sanders LLP explain the mechanics of the Federal Arbitration Act and how to ensure you find the right arbitration laws for your case.

• Takeaways From Decisions Following Campbell-Ewald

  

  Class action defendants that have attempted to implement the U.S. Supreme Court’s Campbell-Ewald guidance have been almost uniformly thwarted in their efforts to moot the class actions through tender. All is not lost, however, as a recent decision by the District of Massachusetts suggests another path forward for certain types of class actions, say Colleen Gulliver and Timothy Birnbaum of DLA Piper LLP.

• A Review Of Key Criminal Cases Against Execs In Q2

  

  In this article, attorneys with Miller & Chevalier Chtd. highlight the most significant criminal cases and government investigations that affected corporate executives in the second quarter of 2016.

• 5 Things You Should Know About Telemarketing Spoofing

  

  Telephone “spoofing” — the use of software to place a call that appears on the recipient’s caller ID as coming from another source — is a growing issue affecting businesses, individuals and even government departments like the IRS. Law enforcement has largely been unable to address the problem, but there are steps your client can take in the face of a spoofing campaign, say David Reidy and Ali Baiardo of McGuireWoods LLP.

• 9 Tips For Becoming A Legal Pundit In The Media

  

  Have you ever been reading your morning paper or watching the nightly news, and found yourself wondering, “How did that lawyer get on TV? I could do that.” If you’ve decided you want to start putting yourself or your law firm in the public light but feel at a loss about how to start, there are several steps you can take to get noticed, says Annie Scranton at Pace Public Relations.

• Law Firm Employees Can Better Defend Against Cyberthreats

  

  In a recent survey of 150 legal firms, it was revealed that “careless employees” was the No. 1 cybersecurity concern for firms by a wide margin. Law firms are smart to be worried about the risks their employees — from the interns to the partners — can pose, usually unintentionally, says Tom DeSot, chief information officer of Digital Defense Inc.

• Pokemon Go’s Product Liability Woes

  

  The popular new smartphone game Pokemon Go has raised significant safety and legal concerns due to its reliance on walking around in the real world. Eric Lindenfeld of Foley & Mansfield PLLP explains the current policy justifications for litigating injuries resulting from augmented reality games, and the likely future for this new area of product liability law.

• 6 Myths Of Data Breach Response

  

  Some companies have an irrational fear of notifying consumers of data breaches, and others suffer from a view that breach notification has no negative consequences because consumer notifications are so commonly encountered, says Jim Harvey of Alston & Bird LLP.

• Lessons On Intercreditor Agreements From RadioShack

  

  The dispute between Salus Capital and other lenders in the RadioShack bankruptcy case highlights the importance of ensuring specificity and clarity when drafting senior-debt-cap provisions and amendment provisions in intercreditor agreements, say attorneys with King & Spalding LLP.

• BigLaw’s (Crowded) Passage To India?

  

  The imminent green light for foreign firms to get into India’s market will be a bellwether of law firm behavior. The impulse to follow the crowd into the new frontier will be great, but smart firms will take a long hard look at who they are before making the passage to India, says Mark A. Cohen, an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School and founder of Legal Mosaic LLC.