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Bankruptcy Asset Sales During COVID-19 Crisis Image

Bankruptcy Asset Sales During COVID-19 Crisis

Hugh McDonald & Deborah Kovsky-Apap

The COVID-19 pandemic is already leaving its mark on the bankruptcy asset sale landscape. Despite the uncertainty — or even because of it — bankruptcy should still be viewed as a useful tool to effectuate the acquisition of assets. The current situation and anticipated distress across many industries presents opportunities for purchasers to acquire assets on favorable terms.

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TRO Bid in Arts Case Results in COVID-19 Rebuke from Judge Image

TRO Bid in Arts Case Results in COVID-19 Rebuke from Judge

Jenna Greene

At this moment in COVID-19 time, if your case involved stopping the sale of counterfeit unicorn products on the Internet, sorry, that wouldn't be an emergency. That was the message from U.S. District Judge Steven C. Seeger, in a decision denying a request for a temporary restraining order filed on behalf of Art Ask Agency, the exclusive licensee for the fantasy art of British artist Anne Stokes, who is popular among the Dungeons and Dragons crowd.

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COVID-19: A Massive Impediment to Bankruptcy Relief Image

COVID-19: A Massive Impediment to Bankruptcy Relief

Joseph H. Lemkin

With Uncertainty As to When the Pandemic Will Ease, Bankruptcy Courts Do Not Seem to Be a Panacea Leading to Successful Reorganizations or Orderly Liquidations for Troubled Companies The impact of COVID-19 on efforts of businesses to reorganize or even orderly liquidate in bankruptcy has been swift and devastating

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UMG Defense Lawyers Discuss Ruling in Artists' Suit Over Warehouse Fire Image

UMG Defense Lawyers Discuss Ruling in Artists' Suit Over Warehouse Fire

Jenna Greene

In April, a U.S. District Judge tossed a six-count, $100 million-complaint against Universal Music Group that was filed after a 2008 warehouse fire that reportedly destroyed master recordings. The class action was originally brought by or on behalf of recording artists. After the ruling, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partners Scott Edelman and Deborah Stein and associate Nathaniel Bach, who served as defense counsel in the litigation, discussed the case.

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Practical Tips for Securing Patent Rights for AI-Generated Inventions Image

Practical Tips for Securing Patent Rights for AI-Generated Inventions

Gunjan Agarwal 

While AI is rising as a key commercial player at the global scale with an expected market size of almost $400 billion by 2025, are patent laws around the world equipped to incentivize this revolution?

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COVID-19: Should Landlords Apply Security Deposits to Unpaid Rents? Image

COVID-19: Should Landlords Apply Security Deposits to Unpaid Rents?

Ira Fierstein

There are currently several bills in various stages of being passed into law in several states as of early April, which would restrict, on a temporary basis, the eviction of commercial tenants from their leased premises for failure to pay rent, Whether these bills get signed into law and survive judicial scrutiny remains to be seen. The question then is whether a landlord may enforce the security deposit section of its lease and take the deposit should the tenant miss a rent payment.

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Avoiding Trade Secret Losses During Corporate Collaboration Image

Avoiding Trade Secret Losses During Corporate Collaboration

Felix Eyzaguirre & Katherine D. Prescott

Effective corporate collaborations — whether close customer relationships, supplier partnerships or formal joint ventures — demand that sensitive information be shared. Without proper agreements and well-defined boundaries, however, those corporate collaborations can lead to loss of trade secret protection and entangle the parties in litigation.

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COVID-19: As Coronavirus Ravages the Economy, Bankruptcy Attorneys Prepare for the Flood Image

COVID-19: As Coronavirus Ravages the Economy, Bankruptcy Attorneys Prepare for the Flood

Samantha Stokes

Law firms have always counted on bankruptcy as a countercyclical practice in hard times. Now, those that prepared when the economy was booming may be about to get their reward.

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5 Lease and Finance Options To Help Conserve — or Even Create — Capital Image

5 Lease and Finance Options To Help Conserve — or Even Create — Capital

Barry Steel

Five options available that leasing and financing can help law firms not only to deploy their business continuity requirements in the short term, but also improving liquidity now and better position the firm for their future.

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Federal Crackdown on Hoarding and Gouging During COVID-19 Crisis Image

Federal Crackdown on Hoarding and Gouging During COVID-19 Crisis

Marjorie Peerce & Justin Kerner

Storage and Hauling Companies Take Note Imagine that it's Spring 2020 and you run a warehousing company and you discover that your warehouse contains containers of goods that could help combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus — masks, medical gowns, gloves or other personal protective equipment (PPE). Or imagine you own a trucking company and learn that your drivers are delivering pallets of hand sanitizer and disinfectants to a residential address. What, if any, liability might you have if it turns out a customer is hoarding PPE?

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