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Early Termination Provisions: A Landlord's Saving Grace … If Done Right Image

Early Termination Provisions: A Landlord's Saving Grace … If Done Right

Menachem J. Kastner & Ally Hack

The focus of this article is the “early termination provision,” a lease provision that affords landlords the tactical advantage they need. Specifically, this article seeks to: 1) guide the practitioner through the pitfalls of a poorly drafted termination provision; and 2) advise the practitioner how to craft a proper and effective termination provision.

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Only 30% of Workday Is Spent on Billable Hours, Report Says

Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

U.S. lawyers are still spending too little of their workday on billable hours, a year after an eye-opening report found lawyers devoted only 29% — 2.3 hours — of each eight-hour workday to billable hours.

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

<i>Friday the 13th</i> Screenplay Author's Copyright Termination Notice Found Valid<br>Infringement Suit over Justin Timberlake's “Damn Girl” Allowed to Proceed

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Meritas' New Cybersecurity Standard Requirement Assures Legal Clients

Victoria Hudgins

Meritas, a nonprofit association of law firms, now requires its law firm members to follow a new cybersecurity standard. The reason for this new standard? Law firms' clients.

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Valuation Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

Ronald L. Seigneur

This article focuses on the impact of tax reform on C corporations and looks at the significant and complex changes to pass through entities.

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Second Circuit Rejects Use of Involuntary Bankruptcy Petition As Collection Tool Image

Second Circuit Rejects Use of Involuntary Bankruptcy Petition As Collection Tool

Michael L. Cook

A bankruptcy court properly dismissed a creditor's involuntary bankruptcy petition “for cause” when it “would serve none of the Bankruptcy Code's goals or purposes … and [when] the sole [petitioning] creditor is not substantially prejudiced by remedies available under state law,” held the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in </i>In re Murray.</i>

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TexasBarCLE 28th Annual Entertainment Law Institute<br>Annual Entertainment, Sports &amp; Media Law Institute

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Which Financial Representations Will Justify a Discharge Objection after Lamar, Archer? Image

Which Financial Representations Will Justify a Discharge Objection after Lamar, Archer?

John A. Thomson, Jr.

The Supreme Court's decision in <i>Lamar, Archer &amp; Cofrin, LLP v. Appling</i> has significantly constricted the range and nature of statements that will support a successful objection by a creditor to the discharge of a debt that was obtained by the statements in question. This constriction could have a very real impact on how entities that loan money or provide services on credit review and collect information regarding a borrower's creditworthiness.

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IP News

Jeff Ginsberg & George Soussou

Obviousness Determination Can Be Different for Apparatus and Method Claims<br>Petitioner “Bears the Burden” On Demonstrating Real Parties in Interest

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Business Crimes Hotline

Collen Snow

Petrobras Pays $853.2 Million to U.S. and Brazil Authorities to Settle FCPA Charges

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