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Regulation and Innovation in Leasing
Are the imperatives of innovation and compliance always mutually exclusive? This article explores these very different but perhaps not always incompatible concerns.
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Presto Change-Oops: Unexpected Challenges in Converting a Lease into an Equipment Finance Agreement
As many practitioners have found, taking a client's standard-form equipment lease and creating an equipment finance agreement is more complicated than it appears.
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Insurance Coverage for Cyber Attacks
Companies should carefully examine their insurance programs, evaluate what coverage already may be available, and see what may be done to enhance the available coverage. To the extent that there may be gaps in available coverage, companies should consider how those gaps can be filled, including through specialty "cyber" risk policies.
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Practice Tip: How to Mediate a Product Liability Case
Mediation is a common feature of product liability practice. If done well, it earns you favor with your clients. But before entering into mediation, preparation is crucial.
I'll See You in the Agency!
This article briefly explores the underpinnings of the primary jurisdiction doctrine, highlights its use in product cases in 2012 and 2013, and considers the role primary jurisdiction may play in future consumer class action litigation and beyond.
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Coverage for 'Diminution in Value' in Commercial Property Insurance Policies
Few courts have considered the issue of whether post-repair diminution in value damages are recoverable under a commercial property policy.
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Decisions of Interest
In-depth study of two recent cases.
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NJ & CT News
What's happening in neighboring states.
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Forensic Custody Reports
It is the belief of the authors of this article that due process of law is being denied to <i>pro se</i> and represented litigants alike when the fundamental right to custody of one's child is at stake ...
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