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After a Lease Is Signed: Avoid These Eight Common Mistakes Image

After a Lease Is Signed: Avoid These Eight Common Mistakes

Mark Morfopoulos

Those attorneys who fail to realize that a lease can have a profound impact on a business owner's day-to-day operations may be in for a rude awakening. This article discusses eight common mistakes tenants can make after they execute a lease.

In the Spotlight: Maximizing Cash Flow Through the Use of Kiosks and Carts Image

In the Spotlight: Maximizing Cash Flow Through the Use of Kiosks and Carts

Scott Grossfeld

The leasing of common-area kiosks and carts is a good way to create more revenue-generating areas of the landlord's shopping center without incurring excessive cost and without sacrificing the synergistic mix and quality of the center.

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Rethinking Boilerplate

Jane Snoddy Smith & Bryan Wesley Patrick

If boilerplate provisions are not considered in light of the positions of the respective parties to a leasing transaction, a party can be left exposed to substantial liability or without a remedy for the rights it has so carefully negotiated.

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On the Move

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Who's doing what; who's going where.

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Projected Reform of German Insolvency Law Image

Projected Reform of German Insolvency Law

Constantin Conrads

A large number of U.S. companies have investments in German entities. Should one of these German companies face a severe financial crisis, the U.S. shareholder must deal with German insolvency laws and procedures concerning its German subsidiary.

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Selling to an LLC?

Alisa E. Moen

Late last fall, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a decision that surprised many business law observers and practitioners.

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Recharacterization: It's Not All About Equity or Insiders Image

Recharacterization: It's Not All About Equity or Insiders

Scott J. Friedman & Mark G. Douglas

In <i>Lothian Oil</i>, discussed herein, the Fifth Circuit considered for the first time whether a bankruptcy court has the power to recharacterize debt as equity.

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Bankruptcy Court Denies Confirmation of WaMu's Plan of Reorganization Image

Bankruptcy Court Denies Confirmation of WaMu's Plan of Reorganization

David Neier, Rolf S. Woolner & Myja K. Kjaer

Sending the debtors back to the drawing board after almost three years in bankruptcy, the bankruptcy court has for the second time denied confirmation of the Plan of Reorganization for Washington Mutual, Inc. ("WaMu").

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Worldox Takes Center Stage at Calfee with GX2 and Productivity Suite Upgrade Image

Worldox Takes Center Stage at Calfee with GX2 and Productivity Suite Upgrade

Russ Mazzaro & Susan Zavesky

In early 2011, we began planning to move offices, prompting us to take stock of all our technology. We were running Windows XP and Office 2007 and could have stayed on Worldox GX, but GX2 included a feature called "Workspaces" which would help us supplement our author-based profiling system, thereby helping lawyers and staff to organize and find documents more readily. Thus, we began to build the case internally for upgrading to GX2.

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Increasing Speed and Confidence in Second Request Responses with New Technologies

David J. Laing

Responding to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requests for Additional Information and Documentary Materials (more commonly known as "Second Requests") presents substantial challenges in assembling a comprehensive and complete production of requested information and documents from company archives.

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