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  • Analysis of a case in which it was ruled that a bankruptcy trustee can seek med-mal damages .

    October 01, 2016
  • An 82-year-old client recently requested a divorce from her husband of 57 years. When asked why, she responded, "I want to live a little before I die." And she is far from the only one.

    October 01, 2016Arlene G. Dubin and Rebecca A. Provder
  • Court-appointed receivers typically assume control over all of a debtor's property, including the debtor's leased equipment. The receivership order will also typically grant the receiver a priority charge over the debtor's assets in order to secure the receivers' fees and other costs. This is sometimes a point of contention with equipment financiers who would rather have their equipment excluded from the receivership.

    October 01, 2016Matthew Nied
  • A case in which a mortgagee claimed that the statute of limitations barred enforcement of the mortgage.

    October 01, 2016
  • Retaining valuable talent, as many readers likely know, means staying connected to the clients. But, especially at the mid and junior levels of the firm, retaining talent can be as complicated and as simple as creating a collaborative culture.

    October 01, 2016Silvia L. Coulter
  • The conservation easement has become a common mechanism for achieving a variety of preservation objectives. Occasionally, however, disputes arise about the easement's scope: What remaining uses can the grantor of the easement make of the underlying fee interest?

    October 01, 2016Stewart E. Sterk
  • The potential for product liability claims concerning objects created via 3D printing is obvious. Last month, the authors discussed some of these. Now, they look at how the law is developing in two countries ' the United States and Great Britain ' as their legal systems attempt to assign liability to the correct actors.

    October 01, 2016Joseph G. Falcone, Tony Dempster and Laura Paliani
  • The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed a false designation-of-origin claim under the federal Lanham Act in a "Buck Rogers" trademark dispute, but allowed the plaintiff to proceed with a trademark dilution claim under the federal statute.

    October 01, 2016Stan Soocher