LJN Newsletters

  • Declaring Digital Documents As Records

    Many law firms have joined the quest to go 'paperless.' This holy grail of efficiency and order in the digital age has been touted for years as being just over the horizon. The answer to the question 'how do we get there?' has been just as elusive. In a world where so many attorneys and support staff still rely on hard copy versions of documents, the only way to quickly go paperless has involved massive amounts of document imaging, even when many of the documents being scanned originated in an electronic format.

    March 25, 2008Eric Mosca

  • In the Marketplace

    Who's Going Where; Who's Doing What.

    February 29, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Shortfall Fees in Factoring Pact

    In a recent decision, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York applied New Jersey law in ruling that a shortfall fee charged by a factoring company was enforceable, pursuant to an alternative fee structure under a certain factoring agreement.

    February 29, 2008Shlomit Ophir-Harel and Chaim Rybak

  • Inaccurate Financing Statement

    Sure, it happens. People make mistakes. But, when does a mistake made on a financing statement render it 'seriously misleading' under revised Uniform Commercial Code '9-506 and thus ineffective to perfect an asserted security interest? The Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida recently addressed this issue in the case of In re John's Bean Farm of Homestead Inc.

    February 29, 2008Adam J. Schlagman

  • Lease Voided Due to Vendor' Default

    On Oct. 31, 2007, a trial-level court in New York issued a decision finding that an equipment lease 'fail[ed] for lack of consideration' when the bankrupt vendor did not deliver the leased equipment, even though the lessee had signed a lease amendment ... a look at the ruling.

    February 29, 2008Robert M. Tils

  • Who Benefits?

    An anlysis of the recent case of Rush v. U.S. Bancorp Equipment Finance, Inc., __ S.D. Rep. ___ (2007 SD 119, Nov. 14, 2007). There, the plaintiff put forth the novel contention that the creditor/defendant should have protected the debtor's financial condition by perfecting the creditor's interest.

    February 29, 2008Anthony Michael Sabino

  • e-Working For a Living

    No one would deny that those in the e-commerce economy 'work hard for the money,' in the words of nascent e-commerce entrepreneur and one-time disco queen Donna Summer. But is 'workin' for a living' any different for an e-commerce manager or executive than for the rest of us? To consider how dot-com employment has evolved over the past few years, I looked at a random sample of recent employment agreements to identify current practices and techniques in e-commerce employment contracting.

    February 29, 2008Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

  • Movers & Shakers

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

    February 29, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Case Briefs

    Recent rulings of importance to you and your practice.

    February 29, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • So What Does Your Fidelity Policy Actually Cover?

    Businesses purchase fidelity insurance to cover their losses from crime such as employee theft and forgery. This need is usually most pronounced for banks and other financial service firms, where employees have access to enormous amounts of money. For these policyholders, misplaced trust in a resourceful employee can result in millions of dollars disappearing from the policyholder or its clients with only a few keystrokes.

    February 29, 2008John N. Ellison and Luke E. Debevec