LJN Newsletters

  • Court Allows Nonconsensual Releases of Third-Party Claims to Be Included In Settlement Agreement

    The bankruptcy bar and courts are attempting to determine the breadth and depth of the Purdue ruling both as to what constitutes consent under a plan of reorganization and whether Purdue applies to other bankruptcy proceedings, including a sale of assets under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, free and clear of claims, and approval of settlements. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia recently faced these issues.

    March 31, 2025Andrew C. Kassner and Joseph N. Argentina Jr.

  • Foreclosures May Not Be Limited to Loan Payment Default

    Lenders typically will only pursue foreclosure as a remedy for default if a borrower has defaulted on a real, economic term of the deal — that is, when the borrower has failed to pay principal or interest.However, a series of recent cases has illustrated that borrowers who default on terms of the loan which are unrelated to the debt itself may nonetheless face foreclosure.

    March 31, 2025Jeffrey B. Steiner and Scott A. Weinberg and Joel C. Haims

  • Incoming Law Firm Leaders Are Not Prepared for Industry’s Transformative Period

    Incoming law firm leaders are not prepared — and the stakes have never been higher. As we enter one of the most transformative periods in the legal industry, marked by an uptick in the influence and power of talent, expanding adoption of AI, major political upheaval and the much-anticipated official entrance of a Big 4 accounting firm into the legal space, the importance and impact of strategic decision-making in the upper echelon of firms has never been greater.

    March 31, 2025Marcie Borgal Shunk

  • New Bifurcated PTAB Pretrial Procedure: Procedural Deep Dive and Possible Implications

    In the latest action part of a recent whirlwind of PTAB policy and procedural change around the use of so-called “discretionary denial” to refuse to a challenge to the validity of a granted patent, the Acting Director of the USPTO has issued a memorandum creating a new “bifurcated” pretrial procedure to be used for deciding whether or not to proceed with a trial in response to a petition for inter partes review or post grant review of a granted patent.

    March 31, 2025Scott Cummings

  • Shift In Foreign Corruption Policy Could Amplify Risk of Extortion for Global Businesses

    The Trump administration’s shift in enforcement policy away from foreign corruption and towards the fight against Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) such as drug cartels, may reduce the immediate risk to global businesses of an FCPA prosecution based on alleged extortion payments. However, the same shift raises new threats to those businesses under statutes that prohibit engagement of any kind with terrorist organizations, do not recognize an extortion defense, and may give rise to civil as well as criminal liability.

    March 31, 2025Howard Master and Alberto Orozco

  • Bankruptcy Experts Debate Intersection of Mass Torts and Bankruptcy

    Perhaps the debate over whether multidistrict litigation or bankruptcy is a better vehicle to resolve mass torts need not be binary. Bankruptcy experts recently discussed the increasingly busy intersection of mass torts and bankruptcy as part of a discussion sponsored by the UC Berkeley School of Law ’s Civil Justice Research Initiative.

    March 31, 2025Ross Todd

  • Players On the Move

    A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

    March 31, 2025Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

  • Co-ops and Condominiums

    Proprietary Lease’s Attorney’s Fee Provision Unenforceable

    March 31, 2025New York Real Estate Law Reporter Staff