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The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 ('BAPCPA') was initially enacted to reform the Bankruptcy Code as it relates to health care businesses and to protect the ongoing quality of patient care being provided by such health care establishments during a bankruptcy proceeding. Specifically, this legislation added Section 333 to the United States Code Title 11, which requires the appointment of a patient care ombudsman ('PCO') in Chapters 7, 9 or 11 reorganization cases where the debtor is a 'health care business,' as defined by the Code, unless the court finds the appointment is not necessary to protect the health and well-being of the business' patients.

Given the instability in the current real estate market and the significant rise in the number of borrowers defaulting on their mortgages, the topic of foreclosures, regardless of the type, will be the subject of many future discussions and articles. Just a quick review of popular business periodicals reveals the many forces working together to both increase the number of foreclosures and decrease property values. In this climate, many lenders will be assessing their options when it comes to foreclosing on delinquent borrowers.

The author shares his top 10 measures for avoiding contract mistakes.

Featured prominently in business and financial headlines in late 2005 and early 2006 were a pair of highly controversial rulings handed down by the New York bankruptcy court overseeing the Chapter 11 cases of embattled energy broker Enron Corporation and its affiliates. Now, in a carefully reasoned 53-page opinion, District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin recently vacated both of the controversial rulings. In re Enron Corp., 2007 WL 2446498 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 27, 2007).

This first installment of a two-part series explains the Atlantic Research decision and some of the basic steps a party to a commercial real estate transaction should take to help protect itself from unexpected CERCLA claims resulting from this decision.

This article explores what keeps lawyers committed to the practice of law, what law firms can do to keep attorneys passionate about the law, and what lawyers can do to retain the passion.

Given the protections from liability available in many jurisdictions, most legal employers have a good deal more flexibility than they currently exercise in handling requests for references. Yet, many cautious employers have been slow to liberalize their reference practices.

This article reviews the Charney case and applicable federal cases that might apply in workplace discrimination and relatiation situations, and points out the hidden dangers of local ordinances that attempt to regulate human behavior, and (arguably) even thought, in the workplace.