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COVID-19: Should Landlords Apply Security Deposits to Unpaid Rents? Image

COVID-19: Should Landlords Apply Security Deposits to Unpaid Rents?

Ira Fierstein

There are currently several bills in various stages of being passed into law in several states as of early April, which would restrict, on a temporary basis, the eviction of commercial tenants from their leased premises for failure to pay rent, Whether these bills get signed into law and survive judicial scrutiny remains to be seen. The question then is whether a landlord may enforce the security deposit section of its lease and take the deposit should the tenant miss a rent payment.

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Avoiding Trade Secret Losses During Corporate Collaboration Image

Avoiding Trade Secret Losses During Corporate Collaboration

Felix Eyzaguirre & Katherine D. Prescott

Effective corporate collaborations — whether close customer relationships, supplier partnerships or formal joint ventures — demand that sensitive information be shared. Without proper agreements and well-defined boundaries, however, those corporate collaborations can lead to loss of trade secret protection and entangle the parties in litigation.

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COVID-19: As Coronavirus Ravages the Economy, Bankruptcy Attorneys Prepare for the Flood Image

COVID-19: As Coronavirus Ravages the Economy, Bankruptcy Attorneys Prepare for the Flood

Samantha Stokes

Law firms have always counted on bankruptcy as a countercyclical practice in hard times. Now, those that prepared when the economy was booming may be about to get their reward.

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5 Lease and Finance Options To Help Conserve — or Even Create — Capital Image

5 Lease and Finance Options To Help Conserve — or Even Create — Capital

Barry Steel

Five options available that leasing and financing can help law firms not only to deploy their business continuity requirements in the short term, but also improving liquidity now and better position the firm for their future.

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Federal Crackdown on Hoarding and Gouging During COVID-19 Crisis Image

Federal Crackdown on Hoarding and Gouging During COVID-19 Crisis

Marjorie Peerce & Justin Kerner

Storage and Hauling Companies Take Note Imagine that it's Spring 2020 and you run a warehousing company and you discover that your warehouse contains containers of goods that could help combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus — masks, medical gowns, gloves or other personal protective equipment (PPE). Or imagine you own a trucking company and learn that your drivers are delivering pallets of hand sanitizer and disinfectants to a residential address. What, if any, liability might you have if it turns out a customer is hoarding PPE?

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Defending Suits Brought By Copyright Trolls

Nancy J. Mertzel

An overview of copyright troll litigation and explores potential litigation strategies for responding to troll cases.

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Cutting Off the Stream: How United States v. Silver Affects "Stream of Benefits" or "Retainer" Bribery Image

Cutting Off the Stream: How United States v. Silver Affects "Stream of Benefits" or "Retainer" Bribery

James D. Gatta, Andrew Kim & Emily M. Notini

Although the court stressed that, by vacating certain of former NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's counts of conviction, it was clarifying and not altering the "as opportunities arise" theory, it nevertheless emphasized that this theory requires particularity with respect to the "question or matter" that is the subject of the bribe payor and recipient's corrupt agreement.

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Parent of Secured Creditor Does Not Automatically Gain Secured Status Image

Parent of Secured Creditor Does Not Automatically Gain Secured Status

Rudolph J. Di Massa Jr. & Drew S. McGehrin

The ruling in In re Jarvis that the grant of a security interest to a corporate lender will not necessarily "spread" that security interest to the lender's affiliates underscores the need for precision and care in the drafting of loan documents, particularly with respect to the granting language contained in security agreements.

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Copyright Termination Claims Found Timely, But Loan-Out Companies Can't Terminate Copyright Assignments Judge Unhappy With Damon Dash's Trial Behavior New York Federal Court Sees No Copyright Infringement or False Endorsement in Use of Mural in Film

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Legal Tech: 7 Steps to Make Your E-Discovery Process Pandemic and Recession-Ready Image

Legal Tech: 7 Steps to Make Your E-Discovery Process Pandemic and Recession-Ready

Brian Schrader

For the legal profession in general, and e-discovery specifically, one of the biggest ways a recession is felt is through litigation budget pressure. To weather a recession, we need to be prepared to do more with fewer resources.

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