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Corporate Disclosure: The Twitter Effect

Stephen E. Older

In May, the New York Stock Exchange implemented new rules allowing for the use of corporate Web sites as a primary vehicle for disseminating material company information.

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Dirty Laundry Hanging Out On The Web

Shari Claire Lewis

Online objections to a corporation's products or services ' posted on "complaint" or "gripe" sites by former employees or consumers, or put elsewhere on the Web ' have a greater potential to be significantly more damaging to the target's operations than more traditional expressions of unhappiness.

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Roberts ' What's Next?

Jeffrey Turkel

In its decision in <i>Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P.</i>, the Court of Appeals ruled that the current and former owners of the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village housing complexes in Manhattan "were not entitled to take advantage of the luxury deregulation provisions of the Rent Stabilization Law ' while simultaneously receiving tax benefits under the City of New York's J-51 program." But there are unanswered questions.

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Classifying Personal Injury Settlements in the Second Department

Thomas A. Elliot

There are some important lessons matrimonial attorneys practicing in the Second Department should take from this case. This article explores some of them.

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Separated Couples Sharing the Same Residence

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Unlike any time in recent history, the slump in the economy in general, and in the housing market in particular, has had an impact on the ability of couples that decide to separate and divorce from actually following through on that plan.

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Couple Cannot 'Contract Away' Child Support Duty

Mark Fass

A New York appellate court has refused to enforce a separation agreement that allowed a father to terminate child-support payments to his ex-wife if their teen-aged son "engag[ed] in full-time employment."

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When Does a Nonemployee Spouse Have a Right to the Employee's Retirement Accumulation?

Thomas R. White, 3rd

Usually, when the employee spouse has interests in multiple plans, the divorce settlement will also contain a waiver or release by the non-employee spouse of his or her interests in other plans. But even if effective under state law, that does not, by itself, protect the employee's interests and those of the employee's successors.

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The 'Revised' Employee Free Choice Act

Michael Pepperman

Over the past several months, behind-the-scenes "legislative wrangling" has led to several proposed modifications to the poorly titled Employee Free Choice Act ("EFCA"), a bill currently pending in both the House and Senate. Here's what to do.

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