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Pension Funding: A Program to Maximize Pension Growth and Limit Volatility
February 25, 2013
With proper planning, a pension can meet regulations, be funded to the acceptable green zone levels (80%) and reduce the annual net periodic pension funding requirement.
Evolving Court Views on Requests for ISP User Identities
January 31, 2013
When copyright suits are instituted over file-sharing infringements that take place over the Internet, the copyright owner may not know much about who the infringers are. Even in the best case, a plaintiff is unlikely to start with much more than an Internet Protocol (IP) address ' the number that identifies a computer or group of computers that may have been used to download or share all or part of an infringing file.
Guide to Privacy Law Compliance
January 31, 2013
When you set out to design and implement a data privacy compliance program for an e-commerce company or other organization, you face a number of threshold decisions and preparatory tasks, including putting a person or team in charge of data privacy law compliance.
FTC Updates COPPA
January 31, 2013
The FTC has made revisions that update the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) for the era of mobile technology, social media and online data collection ' creating new liability for the operators of websites and services that are directed to children under the age of 13.
Movers & Shakers
January 30, 2013
Who's doing what; who's going where.
Disparagement By Implication: Does an Insurer Owe a Duty to Defend?
January 30, 2013
Two conflicting California appellate court decisions issued this year highlight the difficulty of determining when an insurer owes a duty to defend disparagement by implication claims. This article discusses the two divergent California decisions, as well as fact patterns that courts have generally agreed are (and are not) implied disparagement claims triggering an insurer's duty to defend
Case Notes
January 30, 2013
Analysis of a recent key ruling.
Practice Tip: Protecting Your Verdict
January 30, 2013
The purpose of this article is to help the practitioner preserve his or her favorable trial verdict against allegations of juror impropriety. To that end, Part One herein identifies some of the most common juror-related pitfalls, and provides strategies for countering the allegations and tactics that could give rise to a new trial.
Lawyers, Food and Money
January 30, 2013
An in-depth look at food litigation.
Open-Source Risk Management Tools
January 30, 2013
This article discusses various risk management tools that in-house counsel can rely on to perform effective open-source due diligence in software acquisitions.

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    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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