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Taxes remain one of the certainties in life, but a new interpretation by the Internal Revenue Service could have clients – and lawyers — paying even more if they aren’t careful.

Technology and the lessons learned in the wake of the recent recession have conspired to change the model of law firm staffing.

The state of affairs has not returned to the pre-recession situation, however.

The new rule will keep lawyers busy.

Reflecting the always-changing world of technology, electronic discovery presents new challenges for lawyers in 2013. At the forefront: social media evidence, smartphone data and the judicial blessing of a new form of discovery review.

A paperless law office can provide a more efficient, flexible and cost-effective practice.

Lawyers still making their way along the learning curve of social media evidence may struggle to find guidance from court opinions.

A defendant can be found liable for induced infringement of a method patent if it has performed some of the steps of a claimed method and induced other parties to commit the remaining steps, or if it has induced other parties to collectively perform all the steps of the claimed method, the Federal Circuit has found.

The American Bar Association should include diversity as part of the group’s model rules for attorneys, according to a recent request from the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession.

A number of recent lawsuits allege that companies are falsely advertising their products as “all natural” or “100 percent” natural when they in fact contain synthetic ingredients or genetically modified organisms.

In between hours of oral argument over the federal health care legislation, the justices took the time to deny certiorari in the first of the Florida tobacco suits to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.