Features
Jonathan Koevary
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Robert Gagne
To say the least, for those companies that filed for bankruptcy on the eve of the COVID-19 shutdowns, the strategies — and available cash flows to pay landlords — did not go as planned.
Features
Matthew I. Kramer
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
Features
Shaleen J. Patel
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Sushmitha Rajeevan
In the process of creating new content, AI, which has moved into the entertainment industry, may create copies of copyrighted works in memory storage as a byproduct of its overall output sequence. This article explores authorship and ownership of such AI-generated content, and to what extent, if any, can copyrights be infringed upon when AI reproduces copyrighted works for machine learning.
Columns & Departments
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Statute of Frauds Bars Lease Claim
Buildings Constitute Horizontal Multiple Dwelling
No Agreement to Renew
No Wrongful Eviction When Subtenant Remains On Premises
Features
Ellen Bardash
In a decision that narrowed what actions can be brought by Delaware companies' stockholders in the context of a merger, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed claims brought against former 21st Century Fox executives, including three members of the Murdoch family.
Features
Jeffrey B. Steiner
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Scott A. Weinberg
This article reviews a recent case, D2 Mark LLC v. OREI VI Investments LLC, to understand how the court's decision may provide mezzanine lenders with guidance in structuring a UCC foreclosure sale auction in the COVID-19 landscape so as to strengthen their position against any claims by the mezzanine borrower that the sale is not commercially reasonable.
Features
Cindy Kremer Moen
Skip the Doritos and Try Meditation
Features
Danielle C. Lesser
Malls across America, long suffering even before the rise of COVID-19, are now forced to confront a wave of store closures that will inevitably result from current factors. Troubled retailers will, without doubt, seek to close their failing mall locations. To stem these efforts, landlords have applied to courts for injunctive relief to force stores to remain open and operating through the enforcement of the "continuous operations provision" found in mall leases.
Features
Ari Kaplan
For the past six years, the E-Discovery Unfiltered report to identify pricing patterns and preferences in electronic discovery, highlight projected investments in the sector, gauge the impact of the cloud, track shifting preferences in outsourcing and remote review, understand vendor selection criteria, and focus on the need for international ediscovery, among other trends.
Features
Scott Pink
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John Dermody
COVID-19 Contact Tracing v. Protecting Personal Privacy
As states roll back stay-at-home orders, contact tracing has quickly emerged as an essential tool to manage the spread of the coronavirus and allow the country to return to work safely. But innovative contact tracing methods raise a host of privacy concerns, forcing a reckoning with how we balance privacy and public health.
