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Depositions and Legal Proceedings in the Remote World: What Attorneys Need to Know About Security and Best Practices Image

Depositions and Legal Proceedings in the Remote World: What Attorneys Need to Know About Security and Best Practices

Tony Donofrio

Now that depositions and other legal proceedings are now virtual, remote exercises in most cases. It doesn't mean, however, that the rules have relaxed. If anything, it's more important than ever to follow best practices and pay attention to security.

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Legal Tech: Winter 2021 E-Discovery Case Law Review

Mike Hamilton

In this winter e-discovery case law review, we'll cover three cases that might have turned out differently had counsel supervised e-discovery activities more adequately.

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How Legal Tech Can Help Lawyers Protect Privilege and Better Serve Their Clients Image

How Legal Tech Can Help Lawyers Protect Privilege and Better Serve Their Clients

Daniel Farris

A recent UK High Court ruling has provided lawyers everywhere with a stark reminder on the scope of privilege for electronic communications.

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What a Post-COVID-19 World: Debtors' Extraordinary Responses to COVID-19 Image

What a Post-COVID-19 World: Debtors' Extraordinary Responses to COVID-19

Gerard S. Catalanello & Kimberly J. Kodis

The impact of the pandemic rages on and, in its path leaves many businesses and industries demolished or, at best, severely impaired. Once again, the Bankruptcy Code has been called upon to provide relief to those in dire need

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ABCs As an Alternative to Bankruptcy for Implementing Distressed Transactions Image

ABCs As an Alternative to Bankruptcy for Implementing Distressed Transactions

David S. Kupetz

Companies suffering financial distress frequently reach a crossroads where they need to either implement some type of transaction or will be forced to liquidate. In developing a plan for moving forward, management should evaluate and determine, with appropriate input from outside experts, feasible alternatives.

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Global Increase of FCPA Bribery Cases Raises Specter of Piling On Image

Global Increase of FCPA Bribery Cases Raises Specter of Piling On

Sozi Pedro Tulante & Joshua Drew

The increasing number of regulators and enforcement agencies bringing foreign bribery cases across the globe raises the specter of successive or "carbon copy" cases. Policymakers and practitioners need to be aware of this developing risk and take steps to mitigate it.

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Law Firms Looking to Retail Space and Other Office Alternatives Post-Pandemic

Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

The prospect of using retail space for law offices is the latest adaptation, in addition to innovations such as hoteling and other forms of shared workspace, that may define law firm offices in the future as the COVID-19 pandemic makes a permanent mark on how firms configure and run their offices.

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Consumer Bankruptcies In 2021 Can Benefit Both Client and Practitioner Image

Consumer Bankruptcies In 2021 Can Benefit Both Client and Practitioner

Joshua Denbeaux, Lee M. Perlman & Heidi Spivak

As in past times of economic turmoil, it is anticipated that there will be a surge in residential foreclosures, debt collection activity, and the resultant wave of consumer bankruptcy filings.

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Federal Circuit: Texas Court Abused Its Discretion By Delaying On Venue Transfer Motion While Proceeding With the Merits of the Case Federal Circuit: PTAB Violates the APA When It Sua Sponte Adopts a New Claim Construction to Support New Theory of Invalidity for First Time

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Open Space Accessibility and the Conundrum of High Stakes Zoning Disputes

By Philip E. Karmel, James P. Colgate & Judith M. Gallent

The New York Court of Appeals' recent decision in Peyton v. BSA held, in the context of a zoning lot containing several residential buildings, that the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York does not require an area to be accessible to all residents of the zoning lot for the area to qualify as "open space."

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