There are at least eight revisions that a tenant can make to a landlord's "standard" security deposit clause that can protect its interests as well as the landlord's.
June 18, 2010Mark Morfopoulos
It is definitely a tenant's market, but tenants need to be aware of the "point of no return" for the landlord. They need to be acutely aware of how their tenancy will affect the value of a property and how to properly leverage their existing or contemplated occupancy.
June 18, 2010John Kevill and Elizabeth CooperBAPCPA has had a profound effect on retail reorganizations, particularly, the restriction on bankruptcy courts' broad discretion to extend debtors' time to assume or reject leases. This shortened time period, a maximum of 210 days, has been alleged to be responsible for the death of retail reorganizations.
June 18, 2010Yitzhak GreenbergCompanies that continue to supply to a customer after the customer files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection should take note of a recent decision from the Eleventh Circuit that required a supplier to return the money it was paid by a Chapter 11 debtor ' for goods shipped to the debtor post-petition ' because the debtor did not have authority to make the payment in the first place.
June 18, 2010Ann Marie Uetz and Jennifer HayesArguments about value lie at the heart of many disputes in Chapter 11 cases. Yet, despite how critical it is to the outcome of these cases, bankruptcy courts often have extreme difficulty determining value. This makes valuation a fertile source of litigation.
June 18, 2010Steven B. Levine, Andrew Dash and Jennifer M. RechtApproximately 40% of all e-discovery cases in 2009 involved claims for sanctions against parties that allegedly failed to comply with discovery obligations. Of the sanctions cases, 67% addressed an alleged failure to properly preserve ESI.
June 18, 2010Michele C.S. Lange and George M. May, Jr.In its first ruling on the privacy of workplace texting, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 17 said that a city audit of an employee's messages on a city-owned pager was a reasonable search under the Fourth Amendment.
June 17, 2010Tony MauroNew technology is available that directly indexes backup data and allows the extraction of files and e-mail without the use of the original backup software. By providing quick and easy access to data on tape, common causes for backup data migraines can be alleviated. This article outlines how to quell the pounding caused by common backup data issues.
June 07, 2010Jim McGannThe following case study demonstrates how attorneys can use technology to manage their discovery, meet deadlines and keep their heads above water.
May 27, 2010Betsey PittardThe practice of project management in e-discovery has traditionally been loosely defined, with significant variation in the application of the fundamentals and the people performing these services. In some cases, the individual taking a project management role on a case is an attorney or paralegal, while in others it's the e-discovery services provider's account manager. Some project managers come from IT or document management roles. Within any given case, multiple "project managers" may work together, each applying their own set of practices and procedures.
May 27, 2010Christopher Wilen