This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of a "true lease" versus a security agreement, the legal considerations in determining how an agreement should be characterized under the UCC, and some interesting recent decisions in this area.
National rulings of interest to you and your practice.
Under what circumstances do employees who use a workplace computer to communicate with their attorneys waive the attorney-client privilege that would normally attach to such a communication? A recent ruling from New Jersey addressed this question.
In a recent landmark decision significantly increasing risk and liability for employers with respect to policies and practices that may have a disparate-impact on minorities, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the time within which plaintiffs may file disparate-impact claims under Title VII is not limited to the first 300 days following the employer's adoption of the challenged policy.
Who's going where; who's doing what.
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.
