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Financial Considerations That Involve Your Partnership Agreement Image

Financial Considerations That Involve Your Partnership Agreement

Ed Poll

Is becoming a Partner still a realistic expectation in most large firms?

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Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Image

Do Actions Speak Louder than Words?

Caroline Marks & Keven Drummond Eiber

Extrinsic evidence of past policy interpretation may take many forms, and one form is evidence of the parties' own course of performance with regard to the insurance policies at issue.

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Heading for the Exits

Garland Reid & Eric Sidman

This article discusses select leasing issues from recent investment sales transactions, and suggests drafting pointers that can be used to avoid or limit the negative impact these issues may have on the sale of a property.

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Business Crimes Hotline

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

A discussion of recent key litigation.

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In the Courts

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Analysis of a recent court ruling involving Extraterritorial Securities Fraud.

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Should the United States Be Doing This?

Stanley S. Arkin & Robert C. Angelillo

A decision earlier this year on a motion to dismiss the complaint filed by the defendants in the case entitled <I>Security and Exchange Commission v. Elek Straub et al.</I> sustains the global reach of the FCPA.

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Mind Your Flanks

David S. Krakoff, James T. Parkinson & Bradley A. Marcus

This article describes the range of potential collateral litigation and sets out a series of considerations for counsel as they manage FCPA actions.

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FIRREA: Everything Old Is New Again

Jonathan S. Feld, Edward W. Somers & Kara B. Murphy

Recent years have seen significant refocus of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA). statute. Stepped-up enforcement is here to stay.

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Seventh Circuit Reverses 'Inconsistent' District Court Fraudulent Transfer and Equitable Subordination Ruling Image

Seventh Circuit Reverses 'Inconsistent' District Court Fraudulent Transfer and Equitable Subordination Ruling

Michael L. Cook

An in-depth analysis of the Seventh Circuit's ruling in <I>In re Sentinel Management Group, Inc.</I>

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Prepayment Premiums and Make-Whole Payments

Joel H. Levitin

In the bankruptcy context, a prepayment premium will rarely be triggered by the debtor's voluntary prepayment of debt. Here's why.

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