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Regulators Renew Focus on Individual Liability for Gatekeepers

Robert Stern & Sarah Coyne

A rising tide of regulation is headed for corporate compliance officers and in-house lawyers. Corporate accountability is a key priority for the DOJ and SEC, and both agencies have renewed their focus on individual liability for gatekeepers, including lawyers, accountants, underwriters and auditors.

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Severing a Master Lease Raises Thorny Issues

By Peter E. Fisch & Salvatore Gogliormella

A master lease structure is often used where a single landlord and a single tenant intend to lease multiple properties. By using a master lease structure to cover multiple properties as opposed to individual leases, the parties can streamline administration of a large-scale portfolio of properties. However, master lease severance comes with a series of complications.

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The Scrivener's Error Doctrine In Commercial Lease Drafting

Efrem Z. Fischer

What are the limits of efforts to rescind or reform an agreement based upon a mistake? Can a mere "Scrivener's Error" during drafting result in a wholesale extinguishing of a lease document?

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Court Doesn't Buy Pandora's Antitrust Argument Against Comedy Content Licensor Lawyer Sanctioned Under Rule 11 for Submitting Judicial Notice Request in Artist's Infringement Suit

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Cyber Insurance Costs Are on the Rise, But Law Firms Can't Afford to Forgo It Image

Cyber Insurance Costs Are on the Rise, But Law Firms Can't Afford to Forgo It

Rhys Dipshan

While law firms are feeling first-hand the impact of a cyber insurance market struggling to stabilize, the full extent of all the changes have yet to fully hit home.

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The Case for Having A Lawyer As Your Financial Planner

Bryce Sanders

The accounting industry picked up on this idea years ago when the big accounting firms set up subsidiaries offering management consulting services. Lawyers are in an ideal position to offer impartial investment advice because they are fiduciaries.

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CRE Case Roundup

CLLS Staff

A compilation of commercial real estate rulings in courts across the country.

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ssalkin

Copyright Year in Review. Dec. 9, 2022

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Legal Tech: Twitter's Future and E-discovery

Cassandre Coyer

Whether Twitter's doomsday is coming is still uncertain. But the threat of loss of years' worth of companies' data could be the impetus behind testing collection tools and reevaluating e-discovery processes.

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Meeting Client Expectations

Alex Geisler

The New Reality, for which law firms are scrambling to equip themselves, is that law firms no longer define their own service levels. Now it's the clients, and they have clear expectation parameters.

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