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Legal Tech: Moving to the Cloud for Business Continuity Planning Image

Legal Tech: Moving to the Cloud for Business Continuity Planning

Jonathan Reed

In the past year, the devastation caused by natural disasters has been immense. Law firms, like every other business, are left to deal with the aftermath of these catastrophic events. Firms that have established business continuity plans to put into effect when these instances occur will find themselves a step ahead in the disaster recovery process. And the ones leveraging cloud technology are at an even greater advantage.

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Reports of the Demise of 'Gifting' Chapter 11 Plans Are An Exaggeration Image

Reports of the Demise of 'Gifting' Chapter 11 Plans Are An Exaggeration

Timothy W. Hoffmann & Mark G. Douglas

In Nuverra Environmental Solutions,, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware affirmed a bankruptcy court order confirming a non-consensual Chapter 11 plan that included "gifted" consideration from a senior secured creditor to fund unequal distributions to two separate classes of unsecured creditors.

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Business Crimes Hotline

Colleen Snow

Changes to Yates Memo Announced

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The Bankruptcy Code's Inherent Limitations for Struggling Golf Courses Image

The Bankruptcy Code's Inherent Limitations for Struggling Golf Courses

Daniel A. Lev

<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p>This article describes conflicts with zoning boards and neighbors as it relates to distressed golf course properties and the methods sometimes available in the bankruptcy realm for working around the problem of restrictive covenants that run with the land.

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Risks in Online Collection of Children's Data Image

Risks in Online Collection of Children's Data

Jeffrey Higel, Michael Bahar & Mike Nelson

As convenient, useful and cool mobile technology and interconnected devices are, they come with risks that remain largely unseen or, worse, ignored. Some pose security risks and privacy risk, like those present in voice-activated devices — especially for children. For manufacturers, they also pose regulatory litigation and insurance risks, especially when children end up using their “smart” products.

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Use of Arbitration In Place of Inter Partes Review Proceedings

David L. Newman

An IPR might be more efficiently accomplished through arbitration than through a PTAB proceeding, so it should be considered by practitioners.

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Media & Communications: Advising a Client on Crisis Communications — The Three Rs and Three Fs Image

Media & Communications: Advising a Client on Crisis Communications — The Three Rs and Three Fs

Janet Falk

If you have not already encouraged your partners to advise their clients of the need to develop a crisis communication plan in advance, and provided some guidance on best practices, do so immediately. As a complement to a well-developed plan, here are two mnemonic approaches to managing communications in a crisis: the three Rs and the three Fs.

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Big Law's Trojan Horse: Are the Big Four Preparing an Invasion? Image

Big Law's Trojan Horse: Are the Big Four Preparing an Invasion?

Dan Packel

<b><i>Law Firms Partner With the Big Four to Serve Their Clients, But the Accountants Pose an Existential Threat. What Will Happen If — or When — They Turn Competitive?</b></i><p>For law firm leaders, rank-and-file partners and everyone else in the law firm ecosystem, the Big Four shouldn't be a laughing matter. They are serious about selling legal services, and clients are listening.

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In the Courts

Colleen Snow

Sentencing for Two Bankers in Zürcher Kantonalbank of Switzerland Case

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Case Notes

ssalkin

Without Contractual Consent to Inspection, Lack of Protest Doesn't Excuse Landlord's Trespass<br>Resulting Trust Found Where Commercial Property Held in Just One Partner's Name

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