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		<title>Offering CLE one way to get in front of in-house counsel&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/09/14/offering-cle-one-way-to-get-in-front-of-in-house-counsel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s better than a free lunch? Free CLE. If a law firm wants to get in front of a potential big-ticket corporate client, there’s no better way than offering a program that lets their in-house lawyers score easy CLE credits just before the deadline. A large Virginia-based corporation likely has lots of Virginia-admitted lawyers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applicants don’t ‘like’ requests for social-media access&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/23/applicants-dont-like-requests-for-social-media-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dolan Media Newswires</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media clearly has changed the way we interact with each other. We offer up-to-date commentary about the details of our lives with BlackBerries, iPhones, smart phones and other devices.  And we can say what we want without fear of reprisal in the workplace because we limit access to that information to a select group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employees conspiring to steal your business?&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/23/employees-conspiring-to-steal-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every corporate counsel knows that departing employees often take some form of an employer’s confidential and proprietary information to use at their next job. It is a fact of business and to some limited extent, little can be done (cost-effectively) to wholly prevent some of a company’s know-how from leaving with an employee. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IP litigation: What every in-house lawyer needs to know&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/23/ip-litigation-what-every-in-house-lawyer-needs-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intellectual property is one of the most complicated areas of law. Love it or hate it, at some point or another every in-house lawyer is going to be faced with some type of IP dispute. It may be necessary to fend off an attack on a company’s business practices and defend against accusations of trademark, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sticking to the script: Ethics issues can arise with metadata mining&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/23/sticking-to-the-script-ethics-issues-can-arise-with-metadata-mining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electronic documents can tell a tale at odds with the surface script, and dealing with “metadata” can present temptations to corporate counsel when an email hits the wrong person’s inbox. Metadata includes the hidden information that describes the history, tracking or management of an electronic document. Sometimes metadata revelations are merely embarrassing. During the recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting trade secrets, biz goodwill across state lines&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/23/protecting-trade-secrets-biz-goodwill-across-state-lines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dolan Media Newswires</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent study, more than half of all employees admit to stealing employers’ confidential data. Meanwhile, a key employee has just left your company for a competitor. Whether this employee would steal your information or not, at a minimum she knows some of your most important trade secrets. She also controls many significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers, EEOC see rise in pregnancy discrimination claims&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/23/lawyers-eeoc-see-rise-in-pregnancy-discrimination-claims/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/23/lawyers-eeoc-see-rise-in-pregnancy-discrimination-claims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia Hsieh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Leopold Aguirre allegedly fired Abigail Shomo from her job as a waitress at his restaurant in Radford, it wasn’t because he was unhappy with her work. In fact, he said he was satisfied with her performance. Instead, he allegedly told her that his customers did not want to see “a belly” on a woman; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New fee disclosure rules increase responsibilities&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/23/new-fee-disclosure-rules-increase-responsibilities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dolan Media Newswires</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to fee disclosure regulations taking effect in 2012, employer-sponsored retirement plans have seen a flurry of changes from Congress and regulators. While these changes stand to improve retirement outcomes, they also impose a significant burden on employers and plan fiduciaries. In particular, the new fee disclosure regulations will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can we talk? Combatting the fear of runaway fees&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/18/can-we-talk-combating-the-fear-of-runaway-fees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, a lawyer and his partner went to pitch a client for work on a closely held business dispute. The competition was heavy and costs were a significant concern. “What are your rates?” one of the client’s representatives bluntly asked. They were high, the lawyer knew, and he knew they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate counsel look for help from specialists</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/04/27/corporate-counsel-look-for-help-from-specialists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate counsel may not need to be wined and dined by law firms seeking their business. But they do like meat and potatoes, in the form of substantive reasons why a particular lawyer will help them solve a problem. In-house lawyers shared tips for wooing corporate clients at VLW’s Business and Law Breakfast Forum in [...]]]></description>
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