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Read moreNational Cocoa Day - December 13
When the blustery winds blow steadily from the north and a dusting of snow carpets the ground, it’s easy to picture a scene from a Hallmark holiday movie – people strolling down a festive street, cups of hot cocoa warming mittened hands. It certainly seems appropriate that National Cocoa Day falls on December 13, the time of year when the days are getting longer and colder and when bakers and confectioners are whipping up dreamy, chocolatey concoctions. As picture-perfect this scene might be, let’s step away from this winter wonderland and take a moment to examine cocoa through a legal lens, revealing in the process that cocoa does indeed have a darker side.
Read moreLatest & Greatest – The Ultimate Guide to Adobe® Acrobat® DC
Although Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, the downloadable, free PDF viewer is the more familiar software to most folks, Adobe® Acrobat® DC offers users so much more functionality and features that one cannot find with Reader alone. Authors Daniel J. Siegel & Pamela A. Myers have created a guide, The Ultimate Guide to Adobe® Acrobat® DC, to help users get the most out of Adobe® Acrobat® DC.
Read moreDigital Discoveries – The Trial Lawyer’s Guide to the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine
At the heart of the relationship between attorney and client is the assurance that communications between them during the representation will be confidential, thereby enabling candid discussions. However, this privilege, as sacrosanct as it may be, is not absolute. Equally important to the realm of confidential communications is the attorney work product doctrine, which protects from disclosure an attorney’s notes, correspondence, memoranda, etc. Editors Reagan W. Simpson and Robert P. Redemann and a host of attorney authors dissect these related concepts in their book, The Trial Lawyer’s Guide to the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine, and offer some guidance to help litigators understand the nuances of both the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine and how the privilege differs from the ethics rule on confidentiality.
Read moreLatest & Greatest – National Survey of State Laws
Now in its 9th Edition, National Survey of State Laws, is the go-to guide for state-by-state comparisons of state statutes on a variety of topics. These subjects are divided into eight categories: business and consumer laws, criminal laws, education laws, employment laws, family laws, general civil laws, real estate laws, and tax laws.
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