A law firm that broke its lease when a partner left ' avowedly because the firm no longer existed ' cannot get out of the rent that easily. At least not in New Jersey.

With the increased interest on the part of both landlords and tenants in "green" leases, more landlords are striving for LEED certification, and more tenants are considering this as a major factor in choosing a location. But how can the parties best write the lease?

This article examines the proposed lease accounting rules to date and their anticipated impact on lessors and the way they do business.

This article addresses some of the issues arising from searches and seizures of computers and their data to provide guidance so that counsel can effectively represent the interests of their clients who are subjected to such intrusive evidence gathering. by federal law enforcement authorities.

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Equipment lessors need to learn a new acronym: CERCLA. It stands for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and it has the potential to expose lessors to millions of dollars in environmental liability.

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While the government almost certainly will give you an estimate of your client's sentencing exposure as part of a plea process, recent cases in the Second Circuit make clear that the government is unlikely to be bound by that estimate.

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

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Perhaps encouraged by partial success in recovering or clawing back defense costs paid for their policyholders, insurers increasingly may attempt to recover back settlement payments made on behalf of their policyholders.