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Leveraging Specialty Libraries
Like many law firms in recent years, Ungaretti & Harris LLP has been actively looking for ways to better manage costs. And, like many firms, our law library collection and the prime real estate space it consumed at our offices in Chicago were realistic targets for cost-cutting consideration. The challenge for many law librarians has been to reduce costs while still ensuring their firms' attorneys and research staff have access to the right information they need when they need it.
That was my charge as law librarian when I arrived in 1999. At that time, it was a small library serving a mid-size firm. Our library was sandwiched between the offices of the two named partners located on the middle floor of the three contiguous floors. Many of the attorneys found it convenient, but it was overcrowded with heavily laden, double-faced rolling shelving units. And while small, we still didn't have everything we needed in our print collection and we were also feeling the nudge to further consolidate.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
Judge Rules Shaquille O'Neal Will Face Securities Lawsuit for Promotion, Sale of NFTs
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Blockchain Domains: New Developments for Brand Owners
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.
'Insurable Interest' and the Scope of First-Party Coverage
This article reviews the fundamental underpinnings of the concept of insurable interest, and certain recent cases that have grappled with the scope of insurable interest and have articulated a more meaningful application of the concept to claims under first-party property policies.