The creators of Second Life — an online virtual community — faced some real-life problems in a Pennsylvania court recently. In Bragg v. Linden Research, Inc., No. CIV.A06 4925 (E.D.P.A. May 30, 2007), Judge Eduardo C. Robreno, denying a motion to compel arbitration, offers attorneys and their clients some useful guidelines to consider when drafting standard electronic form contracts.
In this month's installment, we focus on some of the special issues facing equipment leasing as a result of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Atlantic Research Corporation. We recommend some steps in order to address the increased litigation and liability risks facing owners and lessors of equipment, risks that few have addressed.
Shari'ah or Islamic-compliant financing is gaining a foothold in international finance transactions. This article provides an overview to equipment finance professionals as to certain opportunities that may exist within this market for both increasing customer base and obtaining sources of capital.
Highlights of the latest insurance cases from around the country.
The e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the potential ramifications resulting from violations of these rules implicate an entire subset of potential policyholder liability for which coverage will be sought, including indemnification for monetary sanctions and high verdicts.
Litigation stemming from recent product and food safety failures presents a number of important insurance questions under general liability policies. These include questions about the scope of the products-operations hazard, whether non-products coverage is implicated by new theories advanced by the plaintiffs' bar, whether 'no injury' claims for economic harm can be shoehorned into coverage, and whether the many class action claims seeking medical monitoring for potential bodily injury will be covered under general liability policies.
This article examines the nature and purpose of business interruption insurance and forecasts the anticipated coverage issues likely to arise from the 2007 California wildfires. It also highlights a number of other business income coverages that may be implicated for wildfire victims.
Law firms once dreamed of owning separate businesses to bring in new streams of revenue, and while some achieved that goal, the industry is now largely backing away from a strategy that provided little economic benefit.
Videos are popping up increasingly on firm Web sites, but at least one analyst warns that law firms might be paying too much for too little.
If gratitude is measured in dollars, office managing partners ('OMPs') are a bit taken for granted. In an informal Recorder survey of San Francisco Bay Area office managing partners, 70% say they work more than when they practiced law exclusively. But only 22% say they are earning more than before they took the post.
