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<b>Basics Revisited:</b> Investing Your Lump Sum Without Taking Your Lumps
[Editor's Note: Many of our specialist readers are so involved in financial intricacies that it may be difficult for them to answer questions on investment basics from non-initiates. Jim Berliner's clear explanations should be useful not only in advising professionals who earn a large fee but also for any firm member or client who is faced with a major investment decision.]
In February of 2000, attorney Don Mackey was on top of the world. The seven-figure jury award he had achieved for a client in a wrongful termination case had withstood its final post-trial challenge, and his long awaited payday was imminent. After accounting for taxes, Mackey was expecting to net around $700,000, his reward for the considerable effort expended over years on the case, not to mention the inherent risk involved in taking the case on a contingent fee basis.
Mackey was also jubilant about the mind-boggling rise in the stock market during the 1990s. He had seen his portfolio grow quite nicely, to say the least. Accustomed to average double-digit annual gains and seeing the stock market hit new highs practically on a daily basis, Mackey was looking forward to putting his lump sum payment to work ASAP.
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Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?