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Challenges in Commercial Leases During Workouts - Risks in Delaying Remedies FAQ

April 04, 2010 12:00

Guest Writer, Laura P. Sims, Winstead PC This is a series of blog entries [link] in which we provide quick answers to lenders' frequently asked questions related to tenant leases (FAQ). Leases are "the" whole point of income producing property—and this series is pointed to...

Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Releases 2009 Report on Internet Crime

Foley Hoag
March 12, 2010 17:42

Today, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a federal organization run as a partnership between the FBI and National White Collar Crime Center, released its 2009 Internet Crime Report (.pdf).  Highlights include: IC 3 received 336,655 in 2009, an increase of 22% over the prior...

Letting Clients In On the Secrets: Publishing Law Firm Templates

March 12, 2010 17:19

My name is William Carleton. I am not an attorney at the Davis Wright firm. I practice at the McNaul Ebel firm. Joe Wallin has invited me to write this guest post. The views in this post are my own, and not Joe's, his firm's or my firm's. As you likely know, all law firms have templates their...

Antidilution Nuances to Ingnore

Foley Hoag
March 12, 2010 17:09

There are a lot of little nuances that can come up in connection with term sheet negotiations. One of my clients recently brought one of the more irrational ones to my attention with a question about what is and what is not fully diluted.  It began with the cap table where the...

Solis Discusses Plans for Worker Misclassification, Enforcement Initiatives During Committee Hearing

March 12, 2010 15:58

Testifying before a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis explained (pdf) how the agency would use the $116.5 billion in proposed funds and 17,800 full-time equivalent employees outlined in the DOL’s fiscal year 2011 budget. These plans include a broad employee...

$2 Million Dollar Consent Decree Against Tire Chain - What Lessons Learned for Employers?

Dennis Westlind
March 12, 2010 15:33

Earlier this week, a federal judge approved a $2 million consent decree, finally settling an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) suit alleging that the Les Schwab Tire Center violated Title VII by discriminating against women in its 420 stores in California, Idaho,...

Winter 2010 Edition Of Bankruptcy Resource Now Available

March 12, 2010 15:29

The Winter 2010 edition of the Absolute Priority newsletter, published by the Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Bankruptcy & Restructuring group, of which I am a member, has just been released. The newsletter gives updates on current developments and trends in the...

Class Action Motion Rejected in Human Tissue MDL

March 12, 2010 14:48

We have posted before about the interesting Human Tissue litigation.  The multidistrict litigation consolidated hundreds of cases filed either by plaintiffs who received allografts — transplants from cadavers — harvested by defendants allegedly without obtaining proper...

Potential Issues With Joint Defense Relationships

R. David Donoghue
March 12, 2010 10:37

This is a reproduction with permission of an article written by Bob Ambrogi about issues with joint defense agreements, in particular with a single firm representing multiple parties.  While joint defense agreements are often valuable for the parties involved, they also have important issues...

Federal Court Holds State Product Liability Act Trumps other Causes of Action, Including the State's Consumer Fraud Act

March 12, 2010 09:00

We defense lawyers have grown so accustomed to plaintiffs trying to repackage a products liability claim as one for consumer fraud that we sometimes forget to check a state's products liability statute for potential defenses when the complaint fails to mention it and instead cites the state's...