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In the Marketplace

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

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

Lessee Remains Liable to Lessor Following Failed Mitigation Image

Lessee Remains Liable to Lessor Following Failed Mitigation

Mark I. Rabinowitz & Marcie D. Seiler

In <i>Giant Eagle, Inc. v. Phar-Mor, Inc.</i>, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the lower courts erred in their determination that once a lessor mitigates its damages by entering into a substitute lease, the lessor cannot claim damages from the original lessee for the period covered by the new lease if the substitute lessee subsequently defaults. Here is a discussion of the case.

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What's New in the Law

Robert W. Ihne

Recent high-profile cases of interest to you and your practice.

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Court Finds Compelled Purchase Option in SILO Case Image

Court Finds Compelled Purchase Option in SILO Case

Philip H. Spector

In the recently decided AWG Leasing Trust case, No. 1:07-CV-857 (N.D. Ohio 2008), a federal district court found against a taxpayer that engaged in a cross-border sale-leaseback of a waste-to-energy facility located in Germany. Herein is a discussion of the case and its aftermath.

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Developing a Coordinated Corporate Social Responsibility Program

Elizabeth A. Wall

Last month, the author discussed what a corporate social responsibility (CSR) program entails and how the key to creating a successful CSR program is to establish stakeholder value across the board. This followup article explains the seven steps to be taken in establishing such a coordinated CSR program.

Client Speak: Client Retention -- A Most Inadequate Concept Image

Client Speak: Client Retention -- A Most Inadequate Concept

Allan Colman

High-quality work for existing clients is the most important and most appreciated selling tool there is. For that reason, the common terminology of "client retention" is inadequate. Here's why.

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Legal Sales & Service: Process Improvement for Law Firms

Catherine Alman MacDonagh & Laura Colcord

The marketing and business development department exists to serve ' we are the service arm of a service business. Our clients are both internal (the firm) and external (the firm's clients). The things we do and they way we do them affect ourselves, the firm and our clients, so we must care about our processes."

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A Leap of Faith

Phyllis Weiss Haserot

Interviews with senior associates and individuals in their first or second year of partnership (particularly equity partnership) reveal that they frequently face a number of surprises ' even shocks ' when they enter their new, long-desired status. Here's what to do.

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Taming the Tenant's Form of Lease

Myles Hannan

Accustomed to manning the ramparts in defense of its landlord client's form of lease, it is always a bit unsettling for a landlord's lawyer to be advised by its client that "for this national tenant, we must work from the tenant's form of lease." Suddenly, instead of engaging in the familiar determination of which of the tenant's requested lease revisions are acceptable to the landlord, the lawyer is faced with determining which essential provisions of a lease from landlord's perspective are either entirely or substantially missing from the tenant's form of lease and then negotiating to include such provisions.

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New York's Labor Law

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Both Labor Law '240(1) and '241(6) impose a nondelegable duty on property owners to provide specified protections to workers. This duty exists regardless of whether or not the owner controlled, directed, or supervised the work. As the courts have repeatedly observed, the imposition of this duty protects workers, by placing ultimate responsibility for their safety upon owners and contractors, instead of on the workers themselves.

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