When a condominium incurs costs for repairs of common areas, how much discretion does the condominium board have in allocating those costs? A look at a recent ruling.
June 02, 2014Stewart E. Sterk
Whether designing and constructing a new retail center, a tenant finish-out or a renovation project, retail real estate developers, property managers and tenants interact with construction contracts, contractors, architects and other construction industry professionals on a regular basis. Those interactions may include lengthy, sophisticated contracts, very basic contracts or no written contract at all. This article addresses some of these common issues from the perspective of protecting the owner of the project.
June 02, 2014Daniel Goodwin, Roger FitzgibbonSeveral pivotal cases are discussed.
June 02, 2014ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Snapchat messages are not nearly as ephemeral as the company promised, the FTC alleged in an administrative lawsuit against the app maker.
June 02, 2014Jenna GreeneIn November 2013, I surveyed 26 predominantly administrative professionals throughout Fortune/Global 500 law departments. In addition to questions related to pricing predictions for hosting, review, processing, the future of predictive coding, the trend towards growing in-house teams and the expansion of managed services, I asked for their impressions of certain leading vendors in the market.
June 02, 2014Ari KaplanTo be successful in generating new business and attracting new clients, it is essential to speak the language of your target clients. Furthermore, lawyers should actually use the words that clients want to hear.
June 02, 2014Larry BodineWhy things tend to go off the rails related to conducting a successful introductory meeting with a potential target (prospective client).
June 02, 2014Bruce AlltopThe answer depends, in part, on where the debtor's case is pending. In the Second Circuit, courts allow defendants to escape exposure to fraudulent transfer actions if the debtor's estate cannot identify at least one general unsecured creditor who would benefit from a recovery in that litigation. Not so in other courts.
June 02, 2014Paul A. Rubin and Leslie W. ChervokasIncreased concern about international child abductions has led the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department to institute certain policies and procedures for single parents travelling internationally with a child. Practitioners should pay attention to these special considerations, particularly with summer travel on the horizon.
June 02, 2014ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |It is almost impossible to open a newspaper today without reading about cybersecurity breaches. Target Corp., Neimann Marcus and many other companies have been targeted, and many experts think it is only a matter of time until law firms are targeted (if it's not too late already). All this "cyber risk" may have you pining for the days before computers, when almost all information was stored on paper.
June 02, 2014John Gilbert