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Evolving Science May Provide Coverage for Transgender Employees Under the ADA
A recent federal lawsuit could change the way employers need to structure their employment policies and procedures as they impact transgender employers under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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The Impact of Rising Interest Rates and the Need for Increased Restructuring Activity
Accommodative monetary policies over the last eight years have extended key refinancing hotspots from 2012-2015 to 2018-2021. With the Federal Reserve having now marked the end of such policies in the United States, a new and, to some extent, necessary wave of restructurings can be expected in the short and medium term.
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Assignment of Lease
When entering into a lease, one exit strategy contemplated by many a tenant is to assign the lease to a third party prior to the expiration of the term of the lease. This article addresses those issues a tenant should attempt to address in the assignment document in order to limit the tenant's potential liability under the lease.
Cooperatives & Condominiums
A look at a case in which a tenant-in-common was not entitled to a stay of sale.
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When a Law Firm Partner Divorces
Going through a divorce can be tumultuous for everyone involved. When one of the parties is a partner in a law firm, those challenges are sometimes elevated for both the partner and the law firm.
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Information Sharing for the Information Age
As 2015 drew to a close, Congress agreed on a federal budget. That simple act, coming on the heels of a series of contentious continuing resolutions, was big news. But tucked away on page 694 of that 887-page bill was perhaps a more significant achievement. There Congress inserted, passed, and the President signed, the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
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Gossip Column Has No Special Protection From Defamation Suit
Just because it's on "Page Six" of the <i>New York Post</i> doesn't mean it cannot be defamatory, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The appellate court revived a defamation lawsuit by a member of The Fugees hip-hop group against the <i>Post</i> for an item in its "Page Six" gossip column, finding reasonable readers might take the story as true.
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CFPB Takes Step Into Cybersecurity Regulation
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has fired a shot across the bow of the burgeoning online-payment industry, taking an enforcement action this week that marked the agency's first foray into regulating cybersecurity.
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Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property (IP) is a highly complex type of property and, as we saw last month in Part One of this article, there are few cases addressing its valuation in the context of divorce. On top of this, because of the emphasis on mediation and arbitration, fewer cases are being litigated in the court system, resulting in fewer court decisions addressing these complex issues. That means there is less guidance for the practitioner, as different treatments of similar facts and great ways of addressing IP valuation remain unreported.
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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Suit Against Hollywood Producers by 'Lost Boys' Clears Hurdle
A suit against Hollywood writers and producers by 54 refugees who became known as 'the Lost Boys' after they fled brutal persecution in Sudan has cleared an initial legal hurdle, a federal judge in Atlanta has ruled.
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