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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 and Robert J. Senska III - Hospitals Hit Hard in Recent Government Enforcement Actions
6/20/2008 Ted Zangari - Extending Permits Would Help Boost Sagging Economy
6/18/2008 David W. Garland and William R. Horwitz - 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
6/1/2008 Marc S. Friedman, Monique Cofer-Delbridge & Eric D. Wong - Tom Just De-Friended The Ninth Circuit
5/28/2008 Marc S. Friedman and 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 Lynne Anne Anderson and 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
4/20/2008 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
3/20/2008 Marc S. Friedman and Eric D. Wong - High-Tech Heists: What to do after an e-commerce stick-up steals customer identities
3/17/2008 David W. Garland and Kristina R. Haymes - 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 Marc S. Friedman and Monique Cofer-Delbridge - Patent Law Sweeping Changes in 2007
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
1/1/2008 Lynne Anne Anderson & Laura S. Grosshans - Family Responsibilities Discrimination - How It May Impact You
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 and Elina Leviyeva - 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 & 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
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
10/3/2007 James A. Dempsey - The Interplay Between The Uniform Commercial Code and Intelletual Property Licenses
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
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 & 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 Lynne Anne Anderson & Laura S. Grosshans - Family Responsibilities Discrimination: What You Need to Know
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
6/18/2007 Marc S. Friedman - Sea Change for Justiciability of Patent Disputes
6/11/2007 Paula A. Tuffin - Active and Early Role by Judges in E-Discovery Has Great Potential
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
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 Lynne Anne Anderson and Steven M. Fleischer - Effectively Defending Whistleblower Suits: Case Law Trends Indicate Success in Defense of CEPA Claims
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 and Jerrold J. Wohlgemuth - 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 Marc S. Friedman and Monique Cofer - The Intersection of Law and Technology Revisited
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, Jack Wenik and William R. Horwitz - Government and Internal Investigations: Special Issues for Healthcare Providers
2/19/2007 Stuart M. Feinblatt and Monique Cofer - Global Warming: A New Litigation Frontier
2/14/2007 Gary W. Herschman & 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
2/1/2007 Monique Cofer - Knowledge is Power: Commercializing Intellectual Property in The Life Sciences Industry
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 Lynne Anne Anderson & William R. Horwitz - A Brave New World: Separation Agreements Must Be Re-Evaluated in Light of Recent Decisions.
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 & 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 and Monique Cofer - 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 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 Gary W. Herschman and Anjana D. Patel - Increasing OIG scrutiny of medical director agreements
7/31/2006 Ira A. Rosenberg, Leslie Gladstone Restaino and Lori M. Waldron - Fierce Pharma Competition Fosters Partnerships
7/20/2006 Peter G. Verniero - Justices show they can't be typecast as legislators
7/14/2006 Marc S. Friedman and 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 and Eliezer M. Helfgott - SPACs Show Impressive Growth In The Investment Community And IPO Markets
7/1/2006 Marc S. Friedman - Infringing Patents…They’re Not Automatic Anymore
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 and Linda B. Katz - 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
5/8/2006 Marc S. Friedman and Barry J. Marenberg - Patenting Predictions
5/3/2006 Paul H. Shur - "Workout Expectations of Parties to Second Lien Financing Deals"
5/1/2006 David W. Garland and Linda B. Katz - 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 Siobhan McCleary - Venture Capital and Start-Ups: A Legal Perspective
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 and William R. Horwitz - 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
4/1/2006 Linda B. Katz and William R. Horwitz - "When An Employee Surfs For Internet Kiddie Porn At Work: Avoiding Civil Liability For Employee Cyber-Crime"
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 Marc S. Friedman and John Carlson - Unmasking The Masked Man: Pulling The Mask Off Your Email Intruder
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 and Lynne Anne Anderson - Preservation and Production: Don't Forget the Metadata
2/1/2006 David W. Garland and William R. Horwitz - Third Circuit Sets Penalties for WARN Violations
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 and Jerrold J. Wohlgemuth - 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 Marc S. Friedman and Sayuri Rajapakse - Do You Own Your Software? Your Website? MAYBE NOT!
11/1/2005 Jack 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, Linda B. Katz 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 Marc S. Friedman and Sayuri Rajapakse - The Most Counterintuitive Legal Principal - The "Work Made For Hire" Doctrine!"
9/1/2005 Philip Y. Braginsky and Barry J. Marenberg - The U.S. Technology Sector Is Alive And Well
9/1/2005 Lynne Anne Anderson - Sarbanes-Oxley's Protection of Employee Whistleblowers Impacts the Financial Services Industry
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
7/18/2005 Marc S. Friedman and Barry J. Marenberg - The Authorized Generics Conundrum
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 and Angela Macropoulos - 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
6/10/2005 Matthew A. Peluso - CISG: International Trade in Plain "English"
6/1/2005 Marc S. Friedman and Barry J. Marenberg - Intentional Deception Is Required For "False Marking" Under The Patent Law
6/1/2005 Marc S. Friedman - Avoid Liability for Tenants' Sale of Counterfeit Goods
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
5/9/2005 Marc S. Friedman - A New Frontier In Financial Reporting
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 Marc S. Friedman and Barry J. Marenberg - Conducting IP Due Diligence for Life Sciences Companies - An Idea Whose Time has Come!
5/1/2005 James S. Frank, 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 Alan Di Sciullo and 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 and Alan DiSciullo - Controlling Rental Costs Through Lease Audits
3/28/2005 David W. Garland and Lynne Anne Anderson - Litigating Whistleblowing Claims in the Post-Enron Environment
3/21/2005 Andrew H. Sherman & John Carlson - 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 and Deborah Heindl - 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
2/1/2005 Marc S. Friedman and Barry J. Marenberg – Some Essentials of Biotech Patent Licenses
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 and Lynne Anne Anderson - Best Practices to Minimize Whistleblower Risks
1/1/2005 R. Max Crane and Peter G. Verniero - Attorney-Client Privilege Under Assault
1/1/2005 The Changing Face of the Russian Democracy: Racism and Xenophobia in Russia: Foreign Students Under Attack in Russia and U.S (Vol. 7, No. 1-2)
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 & Deborah Heindl - 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
10/4/2004 Marc S. Friedman and Barry J. Marenberg - A Sharp Turn in the IP Highway
10/1/2004 David W. Garland and William R. Horwitz - "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 Marc S. Friedman - "Doing The Biotech Deal – The Three Keys To Success Are Teamwork, Teamwork And Teamwork!"
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"
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 Marc S. Friedman and Michael R. Potenza - "Attack Of The Hacks: Using The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act To Stop A Hacker Dead In His Tracks"
7/1/2004 David W. Garland and Cherie Adams - "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
6/28/2004 Marc S. Friedman and William T. Zanowitz - Spiders are coming: Screen scrapers steal online data
6/14/2004 Kenneth F. Oettle - Be Upbeat But Not Pollyannish — In memos that deliver bad news, you should spin, not pander
6/14/2004 Lynne Anne Anderson and William R. Horwitz, “Restrictive Covenants After Maw”
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