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Commercial Real Estate Debt Restructuring

Steve Huntley & Mark Richardson

For real estate bankruptcy law practices, there is significant opportunity in distressed real estate. This article discusses real estate restructuring teams and how they work.

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Beware: Chapter 9 Is Not Just for Cities and Counties

Charles M. Tatelbaum

Chapter 9 deals with bankruptcies of municipalities. The Bankruptcy Code's definition of a municipality is not limited to cities and counties. Here's what it means.

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The 'Culpable Conduct' Defense

John L.A. Lyddane & Barbara D. Goldberg

Blameworthy conduct by the plaintiff in a med mal action can take the form of failing to follow medical advice, refusing or neglecting recommended treatment, or intentionally providing an incomplete or misleading medical history.

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Howard J. Shire & Joseph Mercadante

Washington Judge Awards Syntrix $115 Million

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Attorney Uses Copyright To Attack Unflattering Web Post

Sheri Qualters

Federal law grants website operators immunity from defamation claims for third-party posts, so Boston lawyer Richard Goren used copyright law to go after a site's parent company over a negative posting.

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Joinder Issues In BitTorrent Copyright Litigation

Richard Raysman & Jonathan P. Mollod

Over the past several years, there has been a national flurry of civil actions brought primarily by pornographic film makers alleging copyright infringement by individual file-sharers using the BitTorrent computer protocol. As one federal court noted, hundreds of thousands of John Does have been sued across the county since mid-2010, with copyright holders attempting to assert claims against unknown defendants identified by their IP addresses by joining them, in large numbers, into single actions.

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Best Practices for Formatting Word Documents

Roberta Gelb

Most law firms will say that their users "know" Word. The reality is that most of the documents we have seen could be improved dramatically. Unless you lift the veil and look beyond the printed document, you won't know that you have a "bad" document.

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Redesigning Your Firm's Website

Julie Gurney

As the appetite to consume and share content grows ' and our world becomes more and more mobile-connected ' law firms must work to improve the user experience of their sites to fit these evolving needs.

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Internet 'Data Scraping'

Anthony J. Dreyer & Jamie Stockton

The proliferation of Internet access and mobile devices has led to an exponential explosion of content on the Web, creating a vast repository of "publicly available" information. This has made it far easier for third parties to extract this data for commercial sale and use ' and to do so for free and without authorization. This data extraction, commonly referred to as "scraping," "crawling," or "spidering" (collectively "scraping"), creates legal issues and concerns for both sides of this issue.

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