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Litigation Support, E-discovery and the Recovery of Costs

Nathan Curtis

The Data Explosion vs. Recovery Model Stagnation Firms are struggling with a legacy practice of writing off litigation support/e-discovery and related costs but have been challenged to identify and implement recovery models or managed services models that are both acceptable to the firm and to their clients. On top of all of this, many firms simply fail to dispose of the data at the matter closing and costs continue to accumulate year over year. Mattern has launched the first ever e-Discovery and Litigation Support Cost Recovery Survey to gather that needed data to help drive firms' better business decisions.

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A Tenant's Perspective on SNDAs: Non-Disturbance Is Not Enough Image

A Tenant's Perspective on SNDAs: Non-Disturbance Is Not Enough

James O'Brien

Part One of a Two-Part Article This article outlines the basic elements of an SNDA and will explain the differences between the concepts of "non-disturbance" and "recognition," while contending that lease recognition is more important to the tenant than not having its possession disturbed.

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Lessor Repossession of Property on Eve of Lessee Bankruptcy

Theresa A. Driscoll

Voluntary Turnover or Face Contempt Lessors who repossess property immediately prior to a lessee bankruptcy filing may be required to return such property or face sanctions by the bankruptcy court. Federal courts are currently split on the issue of whether the lessor must voluntary surrender property seized pre-petition or may hold such property until such time as the debtor seeks, and obtains, an order of turnover.

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They're Baaaaack. Disclosure-Based 14(A) Claims Making a Ghostly Return Image

They're Baaaaack. Disclosure-Based 14(A) Claims Making a Ghostly Return

Johanna Fricano

Following the Delaware Chancery Court's ruling in In re Trulia, Inc. that effectively closed the door to 14(a) disclosure-based settlements in Delaware state court, federal courts saw an influx of 14(a) "merger objection" litigation. More often than not, these suits are quickly dismissed following the company's issuance of a supplemental proxy with additional disclosures and the parties negotiate a mootness fee. The transaction closes and all parties move on — or so we thought. An emerging trend suggests that exposure to 14(a) claims may coming back from the near dead.

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Fees on Fees

Joseph I. Farca

Collecting the Legal Fees It Cost You to Collect Legal Fees Does your New York commercial lease form expressly provide that the landlord may recover the legal fees it incurs to recover legal fees from its tenant? If not, then the landlord may be out of luck trying to recover such "fees on fees," as they are known. But it wasn't always this way.

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Epstein Saga Puts Spotlight on Crime Victim's Rights Act Image

Epstein Saga Puts Spotlight on Crime Victim's Rights Act

Robert J. Anello & Richard F. Albert 

The significance of the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA), which is intended to guarantee crime victims a role in federal criminal proceedings, has been highlighted in the case of Jeffrey E. Epstein, the financier accused of sexually trafficking underage girls. Because the government's noncompliance with the CVRA in negotiating Epstein's plea deal in 2008 led to Alexander R. Acosta losing his cabinet position as Secretary of Labor, practitioners can expect prosecutors and judges to be more focused on the CVRA going forward.

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Fourth Circuit: Debt Incurred As a Result of Willful and Malicious Injury May Be Dischargeable Image

Fourth Circuit: Debt Incurred As a Result of Willful and Malicious Injury May Be Dischargeable

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

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently held that a debt incurred as a result of a willful and malicious injury may nevertheless be dischargeable notwithstanding the provisions of 11 U.S.C. Section 523(a)(6).

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Business Crimes Hotline

Juliet Gunev

Microsoft and Hungarian Subsidiary Agree to Pay $25 Million to Resolve FCPA Investigations in Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Thailand

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Resolving the Competing Desires of Buyers and Tenants In Bankruptcy Image

Resolving the Competing Desires of Buyers and Tenants In Bankruptcy

Daniel A. Lowenthal

A Tension Between §§363(f) and 365(h) How do bankruptcy judges resolve the competing desires of buyers and tenants? Must buyers bid for property knowing that tenants might have the right to stay if their leases are rejected? Are tenants in jeopardy that they might have to move elsewhere to live or work?

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In The Courts

Juliet Gunev

Maryland Jury Convicts Former CEO of Israeli Company for Role In $145 Million Binary Options Fraud

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