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Regulation and Innovation in Leasing

Paul Bent

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

Barry Marks & Patricia T. Reid

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

Roberta D. Anderson

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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Case Notes

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Analysis of two key rulings.

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Practice Tip: How to Mediate a Product Liability Case

Kevin Curry & Jennifer Bullard

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.

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I'll See You in the Agency!

Cary Silverman

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

Lewis E. Hassett & Ryan C. Burke

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

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In-depth study of two recent cases.

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NJ & CT News

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What's happening in neighboring states.

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Forensic Custody Reports

Alton L. Abramowitz & Sophie Jacobi-Parisi

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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