LJN Newsletters

  • Five Ways to Improve Lateral Recruitment

    Here are five ideas that law firm leaders can embrace to improve their own success rate at finding and integrating laterals into their firms.

    March 27, 2014Timothy B. Corcoran

  • Movers & Shakers

    Who's going where; who's doing what.

    March 27, 2014ljnstaff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Update: Work-Product Doctrine

    Update to last month's article concerning the applicability of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine in the context of an insurer's claims investigation.

    March 27, 2014Marc S. Voses and Steven P. Nassi

  • Stroke-of-the-Pen Risk in Insurance Coverage

    The actions taken by New York in the wake of Sandy, and the recent news that such measures will be the new normal, suggest a move from the rule of law to the "rule of man" that should be troubling for insurers going forward.

    March 27, 2014Robert D. Goodman and Miranda H. Turner

  • In the Marketplace

    Who's doing what; who's going where.

    March 27, 2014ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • 2014 Forecast

    Optimism is riding high among construction contractors and equipment distributors that local non-residential activity will improve in 2014, according to a recent survey by Wells Fargo Equipment Finance Inc.

    March 27, 2014ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • 'Hell or High Water' Clause

    As if Superstorm Sandy did not cause enough damage, it has the temerity to become the basis for a new legal precedent.

    March 27, 2014Michael A. Sabino and Anthony M. Sabino

  • Lease Portfolio Purchase Due Diligence

    This article examines the due diligence steps that every lawyer must address when advising a client about the merits of purchasing an equipment lease portfolio.

    March 27, 2014Anthony L. Lamm and Stephen Levin

  • FLSA Actions

    In March 2013, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion written by Judge Richard A. Posner, decided the case of Teed v. Thomas & Betts Power Solutions, LLC, 711 F.3d 763, 764 (7th Cir. 2013). In a win for employees, the court held that the more plaintiff-friendly federal common law test is appropriate in determining whether an acquiring company assumes the liabilities associated with pending litigation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). '

    March 27, 2014R. Scott Oswald, Tom Harrington