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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 Image

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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IP News

Jeffrey Ginsberg & Ryan J. Sheehan

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 Image

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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Real Property Law

Stewart Sterk

Neighbors Lack Sufficient Interest to Intervene In Modification of Restriction on Land Held for Charitable Purposes Absence of Property Description Did Not Preclude Equitable Mortgage City Entitled to Cancel Contract With Delinquent Former Owner When Owner Failed to Appear At Closing Statute of Limitations Does Not Bar Continuing Nuisance Claim Against Drilling Contractor

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Landlord & Tenant Law

Stewart Sterk

Guaranty Did Not Extend Past Lease Term Holdover Rent Award Reduced Tenant Is Entitled to Yellowstone Injunction Despite Failure to Attempt to Cure

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Co-ops and Condominiums

Stewart Sterk

Shareholder's Failure to Seek Relief During Cure Period Bars Preliminary Injunction Non-Purchasing Senior Citizens Not Protected Against Eviction Upon Conversion Occupant of Rent Stabilized Co-Op Unit Entitled to Succession Rights

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Northern District of California Holds Vanity License Plates Are Not Government Speech Image

Northern District of California Holds Vanity License Plates Are Not Government Speech

Grace Tuyiringire

California DMV regulations excluding plaintiffs' personalized plates were like the PTO trademark registration restrictions of SLANTS and FUCT — restrictions struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court for violating the First Amendment.

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