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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.
Without all of the needed information accessible through our own local collection, attorneys had to conduct most research using the large fee-based legal databases or trek over to the Cook County Law Library. This was costly. Attorneys working for cost-sensitive clients or conducting preliminary research without a client chargeback account were in an especially difficult position.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.