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Cooperatives & Condominiums

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

A look at two noteworthy cases.

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'Piercing the Corporate Veil' with Respect to Monetary Claims Against Commercial Tenants Image

'Piercing the Corporate Veil' with Respect to Monetary Claims Against Commercial Tenants

Alexander Lycoyannis

In some cases, landlords have persuaded courts to "pierce the corporate veil," so as to recover sums from a corporate tenant's creditworthy parent entity and/or principal(s). In other cases, courts have refused to pierce the corporate veil.This article discusses when a court will, or will not, pierce the corporate veil.

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ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Review of a pivotal case.

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The Progressive Lawyer: Telling Your Client's Story at Trial Image

The Progressive Lawyer: Telling Your Client's Story at Trial

Curtis J. Romanowski

Since most divorce lawyers try few cases, with little, if any, jury experience, few recognize the pivotal importance of being able to articulate the stories that bring their cases to life and make their facts persuasive.

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Business Crimes Hotline

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Key verdicts from around the states.

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Employee Communications and Loss of Privilege

Marjorie J. Peerce & Elizabeth S. Weinstein

When employees use their employers' electronic systems for personal communications and storage of personal documents, there are potential implications for the attorney-client and marital privileges.

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White-Collar Wiretaps

Jonathan B. New & Sammi Malek

Many commentators have suggested that the newly aggressive use of wiretaps will have a profound chilling effect on the practices of the financial services sector.

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Criminal Intent and the So-Called 'Red Flag' Theory

Stanley S. Arkin & Howard J. Kaplan

The "red flag" theory carries the danger of fostering undeserved prosecutions, for so much of it involves the feelings or the opinions of the prosecutor ' and conceivably of a jury.

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In the Spotlight: Imposition of Heightened Duty on Commercial Landlords for Repairs

Catherine L. Burns

The common law has been displaced now in several jurisdictions where the courts are deviating from the common law rule in commercial leases and toward the imposition of an affirmative duty upon commercial landlords to undertake repairs to leased premises.

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A Landlord's Duty to Mitigate in The District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Image

A Landlord's Duty to Mitigate in The District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia

John Kelly

Both landlords and tenants need to be aware of applicable state law concerning a landlord's duty to mitigate when negotiating the default provisions of a commercial lease. A look at three separate jurisdictions.

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