LJN Newsletters

  • Safeguarding Brands

    Because the Internet provides opportunistic criminals with a powerful platform for marketing their tainted goods on a mass scale, and with limited funding and personnel, law-enforcement agencies are unable to make a noticeable dent in the fight against counterfeits, leaving companies with the costly burden of protecting their customers. In the face of ubiquitous and pervasive budget cuts, today's innovative in-house counsel deploys non-traditional responses via technology, to show senior executives some visible, cost-effective results.

    September 29, 2008Margie Milam

  • Agreements for Future Relief from Automatic Stay

    The question, "Can we get them to agree not to file bankruptcy in the future?" must be near the top of the list of things clients most commonly ask their transactions and workout lawyers.

    September 29, 2008Mike C. Buckley

  • And on the 46th Day, Who Wins?

    This article provides a review of the basic principles of federal tax liens and secured transactions under Article 9 of the UCC ("Article 9") and discusses certain issues that arise with respect to the priority of federal tax liens against certain interest holders under the "45-day rule" of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code").

    September 29, 2008Francis X. Buckley, Jr. and Nicholas H. Kappas

  • What Your Terms and Conditions Tell Your Customers

    What businessperson hasn't complained about how lawyers ruin deals? The simple handshake and bar-napkin agreement too often turns into hundreds of pages of fine print, with hourly billing to match. Yet neither party really knows whether it all actually states the deal as each understood it over handshakes. Sometimes the fallout begins because the contracts are unintelligible to the layman ' not good. Other times, the lawyer may have taken far longer than the deal allowed to write a contract, or simply blew the budget ' also not good. Whatever the cause, these problems lead many businesspeople to wonder whether their lawyers are for them, or against them.

    September 29, 2008Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

  • In the Spotlight: The Right of a Landlord to Share in Consideration Received in Connection with Transferring Leased Property

    This article examines three common provisions used by landlords to obtain all or a portion of the excess rents or other consideration received by a tenant pursuant to a sublease or assignment. Additionally, it addresses issues associated with the enforcement of these provisions and the landlord's ability to receive excess rent where the lease is silent on the issue.

    September 29, 2008M. Rosie Rees and Sean M. Bahoshy

  • Profits Per Me (PPM)

    Lateral partner candidates need to look beyond PPP and focus on what the authors call PPM ' "profits per me." Averages are great, but how much of the law firm's profits can one fairly expect to get?

    September 29, 2008Mark Jungers and Jane Sullivan Roberts

  • Product Review Acrobat 9.0 Looks Quite the Same, But Feels Very Different

    Who can dispute that the Portable Document Format has become the lingua franca of legal documents today? PDF is the standard for electronic filing, scanned documents, digital signatures, form distribution, and much more. Adobe has now released version 9 of its flagship application, and while there isn't much that is brand new, there are some noteworthy improvements for the legal community.

    September 29, 2008Brett Burney

  • Ethical Issues of the 21st Century

    Why and how a "confidential e-mail" might not be so confidential--and what can ensue when it leaks.

    September 29, 2008Frederick L. Whitmer and Benjamin D. Goldberg

  • To Catch an e-Criminal

    Someone is stealing electronic data from you ' right now. A person your firm or company has trusted for years is doing things that are making you suspect he or she is stealing. You don't know how or with whom, but you know something is wrong. What do you do? Where do you turn? How do you find out for sure?

    September 29, 2008Ken Stasiak and Dave Kennedy