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In the Courts

Colleen Snow

Business Executive Arrested and Charged with Bribing Venezuelan Officials

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Salary Hikes Not So Impressive After Inflation

Scott Flaherty

Law firms have bumped up starting salaries for associates at top firms over the past few years, prompting Big Law clients to raise a stink about outsized salaries for junior lawyers. But it turns out that this pay falls short of past peaks when inflation is taken into account.

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IP News

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg & Abhishek Bapna

Federal Circuit Remands for Further Proceedings to Determine Whether RPX's Petitions for IPR Were Time Barred For Failing to Identify Its Client As a 'Real Party in Interest'<br>Federal Circuit Holds that Common Law Tribal Sovereign Immunity Cannot Shield a Patent in IPR Proceedings,br&gt;Federal Circuit Holds that an Unsuccessful IPR Petitioner Must Show 'Concrete Plans' for Future Potentially-Infringing Activity in Order to Demonstrate Article III Standing to Appeal PTAB's IPR Decision

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On the Move

ljnstaff

Attorney and law firm moves in bankruptcy law.

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<i>Altman</i>: Six Takeaways

Jeffrey Turkel

On April 26, 2018, a unanimous Court of Appeals held that apartments vacated between 1997 and 2011 will be considered luxury deregulated where the legal regulated rent was $2,000 or more at the time the incoming tenant moved in. The court reversed the First Department, which had held that such apartments would not be deregulated unless the rent was $2,000 or more at the time the outgoing tenant vacated.

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Landlord & Tenant

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Unique Circumstances Require Rent Recomputation<br>City Human Rights Law Requires Landlord to Convert Window Into Wheelchair Accessible Entrance<br>“As Is” Clause Does Not Bar Claim That Landlord Intentionally Caused Defective Conditions

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Development

ssalkin

LPC's Denial of Hardship Application Upheld<br>Developer's Failure to Obtain Final Decision Deprives Federal Court of Subject Matter Jurisdiction<br>Spot Zoning and SEQRA Challenges Rejected

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Cooperatives & Condominiums

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Purchaser Adequately Alleged Concealment of Defects<br>Space Allocation Cannot Be Changed Without Unanimous Vote; Unjust Enrichment Claim Survives

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Real Property Law

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No Easement Created<r>Grant Created Valid and Alienable Possibility of Reverter<br>Contract Vendee Entitled to Specific Performance<br>Questions of Fact About Scope of Mortgage

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Take Content by the Tale: How to Use Storytelling to Strengthen Your Marketing Materials

John J. Buchanan

In law firms today, content is not only king — it seems to be everything! With so much content flowing out of firms, how do you make your content — or for that matter, all of your marketing materials — stand out from the crowd? The answer's not simple — but it's clear: storytelling.

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