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Cooperatives & Condominiums

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Questions of Fact Bar Summary Judgment in Condominium's Claim for Improper Alterations<br>Sponsor Did Not Breach Purchase Contract<br>Unit Owners Did Not Have Exclusive Right to Elevator Shaft

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Sexual Harassment & the Legal Industry

John Hellerman

For members of a conservative industry that — literally — wrote the rulebook on sexual harassment, law firms need to be ready for a day of reckoning that seems inescapable.

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A Cautionary Tale for Lender Overreaching into Bankruptcy Remoteness

Jeffrey S. Greenberg

<b><i>In re Lexington Hospitality Group, LLC</b></i><p>Bankruptcy remote structures are often used to protect against the impact of default under a credit facility. A common mechanism is organizational documents requiring an outside director or member's vote to authorize a bankruptcy filing. However, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky found that such a requirement implemented at the behest of a lender, among other bankruptcy restrictions, and where there was not true independence frustrated the important federal public policy of favoring fresh starts in bankruptcy.

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Corporate Counsel Are Tackling Their Data Risk All at Once: Can They Do It?

Gabrielle Orum Hernández

A new BDO study finds a lack of priorities in data-related spending could, eventually, leave companies overstretched.

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<i>Legal Tech:</i> Four Lessons Learned from Exterro's 4th Annual Federal Judges Survey

Michael Hamilton

For the fourth time, Exterro has conducted an in-depth survey of federal judges in order to understand better how they see e-discovery law and practice changing.

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IP News

Howard Shire & Michael Block

Claim Preclusion Requires Analysis that Claims in Newly Asserted Patents are Patently Indistinct from Claims in Previously Adjudicated Patents<br>Claim Elements Taught by Prior Art for Purposes of Novelty and Obviousness are not Necessarily 'Well-Understood, Routine, and Conventional' Under §101

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Hotline

ssalkin

Arkansas State Senator Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Money Laundering

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On the Move

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Movers and shakers in bankruptcy law.

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Landlord & Tenant

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Denial of Remaining Family Member Status Upheld<br>Occupant Entitled to Succession Rights to Stabilized Apartment Even If Named Tenant Continued to Sign Leases After Moving Out<br>Tenant Entitled to Succession Rights to Rent-Controlled Apartment<br>Landlord Did Not Establish Use of Apartment to Facilitate Drug Trading<br>421-G Buildings Subject to Luxury Deregulation<br>Incarcerated Son Note Entitled to Succession Rights

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Essence of the Ninth Circuit's Decision in the “Blurred Lines” Copyright Infringement Case<br>Trademark Cancellation Claim Can't Proceed Against Marilyn Monroe Brand Manager

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