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Legal Holds: Get Them in Writing
In-house counsel and their outside counterparts routinely struggle with the problem of when and how to issue legal hold notices. When is litigation reasonably anticipated? Who should get the notice? Should the notice be tailored to the case or based on a rigid template? One question that should have a consistent answer is whether the notice should be in writing.
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Another View: Recent SEC Proposals on Proxy Access
The ongoing recession has led lawmakers and the SEC alike to focus on limiting perceived excessive risk-taking and improving the accountability of boards of directors to shareholders. This focus has yielded a range of ideas, although none more controversial than the SEC's recently proposed rules to permit shareholders to include their director nominees in a company's proxy statement.
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Tax Issues for Real Estate Leasing By Tax-Exempt Organizations
In private rulings, the IRS has sanctioned several ways in which a prime lease to a tenant that subleases to others can structure a gross receipts formula for rent that will not result in the rental payments being characterized as based in whole or in part on profits.
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Health Care Laws for the Real Estate Lawyer
This article takes a brief look at a few of the more commonly applicable laws: the federal Stark law, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and regulatory performance standards mandating certain space-sharing restrictions for Independent Diagnostic Testing Facilities.
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The Perils of Immunity in the Era of Globalization
Twenty years ago, a defense attorney might have sighed with relief to hear an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) say that a client was only a "witness," or would not be prosecuted, or would be immunized in return for truthful cooperation in the government's investigation. These days, not so fast.
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Federal Rule of Evidence 502
The first part of this article summarized the law of inadvertent waiver of privilege and the evolution of courts' approaches to this problem. The conclusion offers a roadmap for the product liability practitioner to navigate the opportunities and challenges presented by Rule 502, and illustrates how to protect a client's privileged communications in a cost-conscious way.
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File for Chapter 11, Get the First Month's Rent Free?
Two recent court opinions challenge the growing consensus that 11 U.S.C. ' 365(d)(3) (the "Statute," or "Section 365(d)(3)") does not require the timely payment of stub rent, which is "the rent for the interim period between the day the order for relief was entered in the bankruptcy case and the end of that month." This article offers an analysis.
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What Went Wrong?
A recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision reversing the U.S. Court of Federal Claims' denial of a vaccine injury claim highlights the widening gulf between the Federal Circuit and Federal Claims court on vaccine cases.
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Court-Appointed or Jointly Retained Financial Experts
Financial experts are generally used in matrimonial matters to identify, value and help in the distribution of marital assets and also opine on issues such as income, cash flow, tax consequences or marital liabilities. This article focuses on the expert who is retained to render his or her own opinion.
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