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Bankruptcy Plan Sales: Secured Lenders Do Not Have an Absolute Right to Credit Bid Image

Bankruptcy Plan Sales: Secured Lenders Do Not Have an Absolute Right to Credit Bid

Sam J. Alberts & and David Lee Tayman

In a decision that could have wide-ranging consequences for secured lenders and the distressed debt market, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has held that secured creditors do not have an absolute right to credit bid the value of their loans in Chapter 11 plan-based sales of assets.

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Pre-packaged Bankruptcies: A Faster Way to Emerge from a Bankruptcy Involving Leases?

Michael P. Richman, Mark Salzberg & David G. Mayer

Traditional Chapter 11 reorganizations have proven to be costly and disruptive for corporate debtors. Section 363 sales have largely supplanted traditional Chapter 11 reorganizations because they are faster and more cost efficient. Though not a new concept, parties have recently opted to pursue "pre-packaged" bankruptcy filings or "pre-packs.

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Highlights of the latest insurance cases from around the country.

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Sharing Courtroom Insight and Legal Relays for Professional Success

Ari Kaplan

CourtroomInsight.com and LegalRelay.com both launched at LegalTech New York in February. They are growing by encouraging users, as well as experts and vendors who can benefit from the reviews, to take advantage of their respective "freemium" models. The unrelated sites allow visitors to post and read reviews for free, but offer enhanced positioning and descriptive information to paid subscribers.

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Sharing Courtroom Insight and Legal Relays for Professional Success

Ari Kaplan

This article discusses a new Web-based directory designed to help lawyers identify and evaluate expert witnesses, litigation consultants, arbitrators and mediators through profiles of these providers and reviews of their performance, as well as a similar tool for legal technology product reviews.

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Clio Software-as-a-Service the Right Choice for Slinde & Nelson

Nicholas J. Slinde

Our research led to a handful of legal SaaS offerings. On the surface, the various offerings looked quite similar, since they offered many of the core practice management functions such as matter management, contact management, calendaring and time-and-billing features. We found the interface and several key features of Clio helped separate it from the crowd.

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Riemer & Braunstein Benefits from Storage Virtualization

Bruce Bial

Law firms are often misinterpreted to be stodgy places, reluctant to move into the 21st century with new and emerging technology. Nevertheless, they rely heavily upon computers to complete daily tasks. Documents such as contracts, wills and other files are all confidential and extremely valuable; the data must be protected yet readily available at all times.

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Providing IT with Pertinent Support Information

Sue Hughes

What is the first step that an end-user should consider when in technical distress? My first suggestion to that end-user is the time-honored, well-known and often irritating ' reboot.

Cloud-Safe: 10 Things You Should Know About Cloud Computing Security Image

Cloud-Safe: 10 Things You Should Know About Cloud Computing Security

Rakesh Madhava

Cloud computing and it's related technologies, such as virtualization, are on top of the minds of corporations and law firms in 2010; and the number of companies releasing cloud-based technologies and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms is growing exponentially. Though the cloud may be the industry's key to managing massive and exponentially increasing volumes of electronic data, some serious questions regarding security are being asked, and for many, security issues are the key barriers to adoption.

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