11/26/2012· Damages
Lost Profits Damages to New Businesses: Adjusting for Survival
Survival risk of new businesses is a challenging issue to incorporate into lost profits analyses used in litigation, an issue some financial experts and courts ignore rather than consider explicitly. This paper considers several ways to make qualitative and quantitative adjustments for the survival rates of new businesses.
11/20/2012· Forensics
The Legal Strategy of Computer Forensics
By: Tino Kyprianou
As technology advances by leaps and bounds, digital devices are now an integral part of our lives. Every day we use cell phones, laptops, iPads, iPods, GPS systems -- the list is endless.
11/2/2012· Crisis Management
The Paradox of the Sand Castle and the Crisis Management
By: Luiz Hargreaves, AAS, MD, Msc
It is usual to find on beaches, sand castles being built. They arouse the curiosity of many, especially children and are really true masterpieces. However, the more elaborate and larger they are, the easier it is for them to be destroyed, what ends up constituting a paradox. The more sophisticated, the more fragile.
11/1/2012· Intellectual Property
Naked Licensing: Not as Rare as One May Think
In the last 10 years, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided two cases involving naked licensing: Barcamerica International v. Tyfield Importers (9th Cir. 2002) 289 F.3d 589, and Freecyclesunnyvale v. The Freecycle Network (9th Cir. 2010) 626 F.3d 509.
11/1/2012· Medicine
New Therapeutic Options for Lower-Extremity Ulcers
Adequate debridement, control of infection, off-loading of pressure, and appropriate topical management are the most important interventions in treating nonhealing wounds.
10/29/2012· Animals
The Texas House and Senate Pass Equine Dentistry Bill
By: Bridget Brandon
On May 30, 2011, the Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners became one step away from having the authority to regulate non-veterinarian equine dentists.
10/25/2012· Damages
Determining the Value of Household Production as a Component of Economic Damages
The forensic financial expert may be familiar with assessing lost profits, earnings capacity, or even valuing a business, but what is the expert to do about damages arising from lost ability to engage in non-market work? In a personal injury, wronful death or similar tort cases, physical limitations may restrict market and non-market work the latter forming the basis for an additional source of damages.
10/24/2012· Transportation
Buses and Motorcoaches: Competitive Contracting, Exploitation and Impunity
By: Ned Einstein
As most motorcoach community members know, contracting plays a major role in much of our operations - including the 30% of motorcoach service provided to schoolchildren on field trips, as well as the commuter-express service provided under contract to transit agencies.
10/18/2012· Intellectual Property
Statutory Damages in Trademark Cases - Trends and Improvement
Eight years ago Congress decided that the existing measures of damages for trademark infringement were not deterring trademark infringement. It decided to supplement these measures with statutory damages - a specific range of damages which a court could award even in the absence of proof about plaintiff's losses or defendant's profits.
10/15/2012· Meditation
Regression Therapy in Hypnosis
By: Peter H. Dennis
It is common in hypnotherapy to have a client tell you that he or she just feels stuck. They explain that they are not motivated to do anything, they don't complete tasks, and they procrastinate all the time
