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Analyzing the New Tenant Protections
On June 14, 2019, New York lawmakers approved, and Governor Cuomo signed, the "Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019." The Act contains a series of laws affecting all rentals within the State of New York, making permanent New York's rent regulation laws, which proponents say will ensure that New York's tenants are protected. However, as with any legislation, especially one that seems to have been enacted hastily, there are unintended and possibly quite adverse long-term consequences.
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Don't Be Content with No Content Strategy: A Law Firm Content Strategy Primer
While it's great to create a ton of content, without any kind of plan or guide, your content (and messaging) is all over the map. In order for your content to have real impact and to effectively support your firm's business development goals and objectives, you need to have a "content strategy."
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Law Firm Diversity Roundtable
Creating an Environment Attractive to Diverse Lawyers Where They Can Rise to the Leadership Level A roundtable discussion with four prominent leaders in law and recruiting who weigh in what firms are doing — and can do — to create environments that are attractive to diverse lawyers and enable them to rise to the leadership level.
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Real Property Law
Cancellation of Satisfaction Denied<br>Questions About Meeting of Minds<br>Statute of Limitations Bars Foreclosure Action<br>Merger Doctrine<br>Unjust Enrichment<br>Mortgage Acceleration Revoked<br>Deed Valid When Not Intended As Security for Mortgage Debt<br>Specific Performance Denied for Failure to Show Ability to Close
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Supreme Court Rules Rejection of Trademark License Does Not Rescind Rights of Licensee
Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC The question is whether a debtor's rejection of its agreement granting a license "terminates rights of the licensee that would survive the licensor's breach under applicable nonbankruptcy law."
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Voice of the Client: 9 Ways You Could Be Hindering New Business Efforts
Nine ways you may be hindering your efforts to win new legal business, and a few ideas on how subtle improvements can maximize both success and overall win rates for firms and attorneys.
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Supreme Court Holds Bar Against Registration of Immoral or Scandalous Marks Violates the First Amendment
Iancu v. Brunetti The Supreme Court held the bar against registration of immoral or scandalous marks "collided" with well-established free speech doctrine, namely, that laws disadvantaging speech based on the views expressed thereby violate the First Amendment.
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Trustee Litigation Trend: Tuition Clawback
With increasing frequency, Chapter 7 trustees are looking to insolvent parents as well as colleges and universities to avoid and recover for estate creditors payments made by insolvent debtors for the benefit of the debtors' dependents. These cases are premised on the theory that the tuition payments being made by insolvent parents for the benefit of their children are avoidable as constructively fraudulent transfers because the parents do not receive reasonably equivalent value in exchange for the payment of such tuition. Courts are divided as to whether the payment of a child's tuition provides reasonably equivalent value to the insolvent parents.
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9 Ways You Could Be Hindering New Business Efforts
Nine ways you may be hindering your efforts to win new legal business, and a few ideas on how subtle improvements can maximize both success and overall win rates for firms and attorneys.
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