LJN Newsletters

  • Legal Lessons Gleaned from Music Industry's High-Profile, File-Sharing Litigation

    When the cash-strapped recording industry announced at the end of 2008 that it would largely drop its aggressive litigation campaign against unauthorized file sharers, some observers saw this as a defeat for record labels. But numerous court rulings have been issued over the past few years that debate and/or establish legal guidelines that will be referenced in file-sharer cases that are either still in the pipeline or may later crop up. This article examines some of the most recent of these cases and decisions.

    June 29, 2009Stan Soocher

  • The HITECH Act And Health Care Attorneys

    President Barack Obama executed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "Stimulus Act") on Feb. 17, 2009. The new legislation, while aimed at stimulating the economy and increasing patient safety, has another side that health law attorneys need to be aware of.

    June 29, 2009Lee. S. Atckinson

  • Stimulus Funds For Electronic Medical Record Systems

    One of the newer ideas for reducing medical errors is to have medical providers use electronic medical record keeping methods. However, the single greatest inhibitor to taking advantage of technology is the requirement for an initial investment and, in the medical records technology area, this could be significant.

    June 29, 2009Jonathan Bick

  • Off-Label Promotion of Drugs and Medical Devices

    A spate of billion- and hundred-million-dollar settlements with the Department of Justice (DOJ) illustrates how the investigation of off-label promotions of drugs and devices has emerged as a predominant theory in pharmaceutical and medical-device prosecutions.

    June 29, 2009Michael Kendall and Nicole Colby Longton

  • Real Property Law

    Key analysis and discussion of decisions you need to know.

    June 29, 2009ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Landlord & Tenant

    Discussion and analysis of recent rulings.

    June 29, 2009ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Development

    Analysis of recent rulings.

    June 29, 2009ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Renewal Lien Does Not Have Retroactive Effect

    Under CPLR 211(b), a money judgment remains effective for 20 years. Under CPLR 5203(a), a lien on real property arising from that money judgment remains effective for only ten years. A discussion and analysis.

    June 29, 2009Stewart E. Sterk