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All companies must live with the risks and uncertainties inherent in their businesses. Doing business with Chinese manufacturers, however, recently has proven to be more risky than some companies had anticipated.
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The continuing economic crisis, driven in large measure by the subprime mortgage meltdown, is affecting major segments of the economy. Not a day goes by that there is not something in the press regarding the effects of billions of dollars of mortgage failures. Criminal investigations into all industries involved in the process are underway. The Department of Justice is considering creating a task force, much in the same way the Bush Administration created the Corporate Fraud Task Force in the aftermath of the Enron failure.
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On April 5, 2007, the Court of Appeals voided a decade-old court-ordered stipulation that had settled a contested litigation over a rent-stabilized apartment. The landlord in <i>Riverside Syndicate Inc. v. Munroe, et al.</i> 10 N.Y.3d 18, was allowed to renege on a settlement on the theory that the stipulation violated public policy and unlawfully waived the tenant's rights. The ramifications of this ruling are extraordinary. A party to a court ordered settlement can reap the benefits for as long as is opportune (the court ruled that there is no applicable statute of limitations).
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Before committing to membership in a mixed-use community, potential tenants should carefully review the terms contained in the community's declaration of protective covenants, conditions, restrictions, and easements. This article enumerates significant considerations that should be examined when reviewing the declarations.
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This article examines two issues that can arise when a company and its former officer or director are adverse to each other and one seeks access to potentially privileged documents of the other.
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U.S. antitrust enforcement, once the impetus for numerous foreign blocking statutes, now epitomizes the type of global cooperation necessary for effective law enforcement. But the past six years offer potent counterexamples that highlight the dangers of unilateralism and disrespect for foreign sovereignty ' some relatively minor, others far more consequential.
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While the duty of lawyers representing financial institutions in the U.S. is almost solely toward their clients, in the EU, lawyers have affirmative obligations to report suspected money-laundering activity to government authorities. In other words, lawyers may be involuntarily conscripted as enforcement agents or 'gatekeepers' at the institutions they represent. American lawyers in the European offices of U.S.-based 'international' law firms are not exempt.
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As the construction of mixed-use projects continues to grow across the nation and globally, all parties involved must understand the dynamics of the project in which they are involved and how best to structure the relationships among the several parties, which will generally have divergent interests. The building block for this relationship will likely be a form lease.
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As the wave of litigation related to subprime defaults builds momentum, the people and institutions targeted by that litigation are looking to their insurers for reimbursement of the costs of defending those actions and any resulting liabilities.
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For companies of all sizes, the decisions made in the boardroom will affect how they operate and may ultimately determine success or failure. Whether in response to legislation or good business sense, the use of forensic accountants at the boardroom level will become more prevalent as management responds to the pressures for establishing controls aimed at preventing fraud.