LJN Newsletters

  • Three for Three

    As can be expected, bankruptcy cases often involve numerous claimants holding general unsecured claims against the debtor. As a result, an official committee is usually appointed under Bankruptcy Code section 1102 to represent the interests of all of the debtor's unsecured creditors. Upon approval of the bankruptcy court, Bankruptcy Code section 1103 authorizes the committee to retain attorneys, accountants and other professionals to assist it in performing its services during the course of the bankruptcy'

    December 20, 2013Veronique A. Urban and Ted A. Berkowitz

  • Equitable Mootness

    Equitable mootness is a judge-made remedy that is misnamed, says the author.. Judges apply it to seek an equitable result, but mootness in the constitutional sense is absent.

    December 20, 2013Daniel A. Lowenthal

  • Business Crimes Hotline

    The collapse of a UK Bribery case is discussed.

    December 20, 2013ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • In the Courts

    Analysis of several recent cases.

    December 20, 2013ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Brazil Enacts Long-Pending Anti-Corruption Legislation

    Brazil's Clean Company Law, which imposes corporate civil and administrative liability for bribery of domestic and foreign public officials, is discussed in Part Two of this series.

    December 20, 2013Andrew M. Levine, Bruce E. Yannett, Renata Muzzi Gomes de Almeida, Steven S. Michaels and Ana L. Frischtak

  • Criminal Forfeiture Laws

    The government has exercised wide latitude in freezing or seizing assets connected to a charged crime prior to trial.

    December 19, 2013Robert J. Anello

  • EU Parliament Overhauls Consumer Data Protection

    Everyone, especially corporate leaders, got a little paranoid last year when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden pulled the alarm on U.S. surveillance. That paranoia turned into palpable risk after reports emerged of the NSA tapping the phones of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and executives at a Brazilian oil company.

    November 30, 2013Angela Hunt