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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.

In re Lexington Hospitality Group, LLC

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.

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

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.

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

Arkansas State Senator Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Money Laundering

Movers and shakers in bankruptcy law.

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