LJN Newsletters

To best protect their companies' interests, corporate counsel should be aware of the IP implications of every M&A transaction, and should adopt a formal approach to identifying those assets and performing IP due diligence.

The increasing use of social networking sites has changed the discovery landscape again. This change, however, presents a positive and beneficial discovery tool for companies to use in litigation.

Although director and officer indemnification is not a new concept, there is limited judicial precedent interpreting DGCL ' 145. Thus, the recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision in Hermelin v. K-V Pharmaceutical Company is most welcome.

A look at recent litigation.

When negotiating a lease of a parcel that is subject to an REA, a practitioner must be aware that there are many ways that an REA can adversely impact a tenant. This article lists eight factors to consider when reviewing an REA.

This article examines the topics that should be contemplated in an amendment to an existing lease, and also discusses the manner in which these issues may be addressed.

More often than you might think, landlords enter into leases with tenant-entities only to find later, when the tenant defaults under the lease, that the tenant-entity was never lawfully formed or did not exist at the time of entering into the lease.

An in-depth analysis of key decisions of note.