The expansive ability granted to debtors to assume or reject existing executory contracts is premised on the policy that debtors should have the ability to abandon burdensome obligations while retaining favorable ones ' all with the overriding goal of rehabilitation in mind. A look at the Noranda Bankruptcy.
Transactional attorneys involved in negotiating commercial leases, construction contracts, or any contract in which one party requires the other party to provide insurance against personal injury or property damage should have a good understanding of the new "additional insured" form endorsement to a Commercial General Liability (CGL) insurance policy.
It was just five years ago when our managing partner, Wade Cooper, shared his long-term vision for Jackson Walker's file management strategy. He challenged us to stop talking about going paperless and actually do something about it.
The ability of bankruptcy estate professionals to obtain payment for defending their fee applications has been severely curtailed with the United States Supreme Court's decision of Baker Botts L.L.P. v. ASARCO LLC. But such a limitation is inappropriate.
Federal Circuit Remands PTAB Decision Due to Claim Construction Change
Supreme Court Restricts Challenges to PTAB's Institution Decisions and Upholds Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard in IPR Proceedings
Courts have sanctioned corporate defendants for years for failure to produce or preserve electronically stored information (ESI). There have been, however, a few decisions in which courts have imposed sanctions or other penalties on plaintiffs who destroyed ESI. The misconduct giving rise to sanctions has varied from fraud and bad faith to inadvertence.
If you want to grow your practice, it is time to stop hiding behind your LinkedIn page and website profile and stride boldly into the field where real, live clients and referrals sources dwell. It is time to look someone in the eye and shake their hand.
Executive coaching has finally made contact with Big Law, big time. This paradigm shift has happened because research now proves there is a return on investment realized by organizations that invest in professionally developing human capital .
Here's the premise: The cloud is a fundamental technology solution option that truly solves all kinds of law firm business and legal IT challenges including innovation, security, governance, global availability, etc. Modern law firms want the efficiency, the security and the global access of the cloud, while satisfying the security demands of their clients.
