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Cross-Border Litigation
May 02, 2017
<b><I>The Devil in the Details</I></b><p>Globalization has created new challenges for companies threatened by, or embroiled in, cross-border litigation. Assets and evidence, in the form of witnesses and documents, may be spread across multiple countries and legal systems. Judicial attitudes and procedures in these systems can vary as much as national political relations.
Defamation and the Disgruntled Defendant
May 02, 2017
<b><I>Part One of a Two-Part Article </I></b><p>it is no wonder that those who find themselves on the receiving end of a product liability lawsuit and its attendant bad publicity sometimes fight back. So it was in a recent case, in which a company, publicly accused by a plaintiff's lawyers of using non–FDA-approved medical devices, fought back by bringing a defamation suit against the opposing attorneys.
Where Is the Digital-Age Sweet Spot Between Business Growth and Data Security?
May 02, 2017
In this heady atmosphere, law firms risk succumbing to the temptation — indeed, the seeming necessity — to exploit to the hilt the Internet's huge upside — its massive growth and profit potential — while neglecting its huge downside: its immense threats to data security.
<b><i>Leadership:</i></b> Why Are So Many Law Firm Videos So Bad?
May 02, 2017
Here are a few of the issues faced by many of the current batch of bad law firm videos--and how to solve them.
Ex-Reed Smith Partner's Suicide Trial Highlights Anxiety in Big Law Mergers
May 02, 2017
Just weeks before Stewart Dolin committed suicide in 2010, he told his therapist he still felt anxious about his position at Reed Smith, the global firm he had joined as a result of its 2007 merger with his former home, 140-lawyer Chicago firm Sachnoff & Weaver.
An 'Extra Parent': NY Law Can Accommodate That Situation
May 02, 2017
We have seen surrogate mothers seek custody of children they carried for couples who provided their own egg and sperm; same-sex co-parents fight for visitation rights with children with whom they have no biological or adoptive connection; and grandparents argue that they are the “real” parent to a child. Now comes a new twist: custody of a boy born after three people decided they wanted to have a child.
Employee Data Theft
May 02, 2017
<b><I>How to Investigate</I></b><p>When suspicions of employee data theft arise, it is important to engage a computer forensics expert to perform a theft-of-IP analysis in order to preserve electronic data and uncover important evidence.
Expanding the Scope of Good Guy Guarantees in NY
May 02, 2017
Good Guy Guarantees are intended to protect landlords against defaulting and insolvent commercial tenants. However,iIn <I>Bri Jen Realty Corp. v. Altman</I>, New York's Second Appellate Department construed a Good Guy Guarantee to hold a guarantor liable for rent for 11 months after the tenant surrendered the premises.
UPCOMING EVENT
May 02, 2017
New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section Annual Spring Meeting
Sixth Circuit Trims Bank's Good-Faith Defense to Fraudulent Transfer Claims
May 02, 2017
<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</i></b>The issue of what constitutes a good-faith defense to a fraudulent transfer claim is a murky question that has produced a wide variety of reported decisions from appellate courts over the years. But a recent Sixth Circuit opinion sheds some clear light on a complicated fact pattern.

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