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Is Your Firm Ready for an IRS Audit?
Michael E. Mooney
The IRS has selected your firm for audit. Are you ready? You may be in for a surprise if you ever accept retainers, accept payment for services in kind, accept client trust funds, advance client costs in connection with matters you are handling, or have any service providers not on the regular payroll.
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In the Marketplace
ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.
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'Braving Tempestuous Times'
Raymond W. Dusch
The two-part article, titled 'Braving Tempestuous Times ' Hell-or-High-Water Obligations Maintain Their Viability Despite Leasing Scams and a Troubled Economy,' which appeared in the February and March 2010 editions of this newsletter, discussed several recent court decisions that ruled on the enforceability of hell-or-high-water obligations and waiver-of-defenses provisions in leases and accounts receivable financings. This article provides further elaboration of issues raised by two of these cases.
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How the Recession Has Complicated Judgments By Confession
Kevin R.J. Schroth
In ordinary economic times, the most common deficiency in applications for judgment by confession is the failure to include sufficient detail concerning the basis for a judgment. Recently, however, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. Instead of providing insufficient detail, attorneys have been filing exceedingly complex applications based on sophisticated and voluminous commercial transactions, many of which have been denied because, in short, they are too complicated.
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Update on Vessel Leasing Issues
Nancy L. Hengen
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James H. Hohenstein
This article covers several vessel-leasing-related topics that have increasing prominence in today's world, including: ship recycling issues; the increasing tendency to treat environmental events as criminal; Section 1110 of the Bankruptcy Code; and piracy.
The Leasing Hotline
ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
A recent ruling of importance to you and your practice.
Want to Save Your Property?
William S. Schwartz
Many business owners who are faced with a matured bank loan or multiple debts that are long past due immediately think that bankruptcy is the only way out. This could not be further from the truth.
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Sustainable Development
Michael J. Lusardi
Despite common assumptions that today's environmental concerns stem from automobile emissions and industrial pollution, buildings actually have a comparably greater impact on the planet's environmental dilemma. Here's why going green helps developers and owners alike.
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