LJN Newsletters

  • Federal Crackdown on Hoarding and Gouging During COVID-19 Crisis

    Storage and Hauling Companies Take Note Imagine that it's Spring 2020 and you run a warehousing company and you discover that your warehouse contains containers of goods that could help combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus — masks, medical gowns, gloves or other personal protective equipment (PPE). Or imagine you own a trucking company and learn that your drivers are delivering pallets of hand sanitizer and disinfectants to a residential address. What, if any, liability might you have if it turns out a customer is hoarding PPE?

    May 01, 2020Marjorie Peerce and Justin Kerner

  • Legal Tech: Preparing for Internal Investigations to Mitigate Risk

    How Advanced E-discovery Tools Can Help Simplify Information Gathering, Unify Disparate Information Systems, Standardize Workflows Across Departments, and Reduce Both Costs and Risk The stakes in internal investigations can turn out to be very high. Companies can often respond effectively if they proactively plan for investigations and leverage technology that can comb through large amounts of data quickly at low cost.

    May 01, 2020David Carns

  • IP News

    Federal Circuit: Method of Preparation Claim is Patentable Federal Circuit: Same Party Cannot Join IPR Petitions under 35 U.S.C. §315(c)

    May 01, 2020Jeff Ginsberg and Matthew Weiss

  • Adopting COVID-19 Cuts, Law Firms Balance Image and Economics

    Firms Are Applying Communications Lessons from the Great Recession As They Deliver Bad News During the Coronavirus Pandemic. As firms echo their response to the COVID-19 crisis, they are also showing they learned from the experiences of a decade ago, including the negative effects of delivering cuts unevenly, clumsily or with unnecessary secrecy.

    May 01, 2020Patrick Smith

  • Cutting Off the Stream: How United States v. Silver Affects "Stream of Benefits" or "Retainer" Bribery

    Although the court stressed that, by vacating certain of former NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's counts of conviction, it was clarifying and not altering the "as opportunities arise" theory, it nevertheless emphasized that this theory requires particularity with respect to the "question or matter" that is the subject of the bribe payor and recipient's corrupt agreement.

    May 01, 2020James D. Gatta, Andrew Kim and Emily M. Notini

  • Parent of Secured Creditor Does Not Automatically Gain Secured Status

    The ruling in In re Jarvis that the grant of a security interest to a corporate lender will not necessarily "spread" that security interest to the lender's affiliates underscores the need for precision and care in the drafting of loan documents, particularly with respect to the granting language contained in security agreements.

    May 01, 2020Rudolph J. Di Massa Jr. and Drew S. McGehrin

  • Bit Parts

    Copyright Termination Claims Found Timely, But Loan-Out Companies Can't Terminate Copyright Assignments Judge Unhappy With Damon Dash's Trial Behavior New York Federal Court Sees No Copyright Infringement or False Endorsement in Use of Mural in Film

    May 01, 2020Stan Soocher

  • Personal Guaranty of Commercial Lease Held Discharged in Guarantor's Bankruptcy

    As we prepare for the anticipated increase in bankruptcy filings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the economy, many practitioners are trying to compare this to the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s. One of the issues that keeps coming up cycle after cycle is whether a personal guaranty of a commercial lease is discharged in the bankruptcy of the individual guarantor. Court decisions have split on this issue for years.

    May 01, 2020Andrew C. Kassner and Joseph N. Argentina Jr.