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June 22, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Best practices rules have become a numbers game.

By Martin L. Haines

5 minute read

November 16, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge in Newark on Tuesday ordered a publisher to stop using an unauthorized photograph of a Grammy-nominated singer on the cover of a book about the life and sexual escapades of a convicted crack-cocaine dealer.

By Martin C. Daks

3 minute read

September 04, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

An SEC investigation into stock options sweeps up four New Jersey companies and spurs a shareholder's derivative suit.

By Martin C. Daks

7 minute read

November 24, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Martin Zohn and Joshua Thompson, parters at Proskauer Rose, write that secured creditors and asset purchasers in sales under §363 of the Bankruptcy Code received an ominous wakeup call recently in the form of a decision from a respected Bankruptcy Appellate Panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to this decision, they note, the speed and flexibility of a 363 sale "free and clear of liens" had made it the procedure of choice in many ditressed situations, supplanting secured creditor foreclosures under state law and Chapter 11 plans of reorganization.

By Martin Zohn and Joshua Thompson

10 minute read

June 25, 2002 | New York Law Journal

I n this, our 200th column, we report on a recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in which the court upheld the firing of an administrative police officer based on his anonymous mailing of racist and anti-Semitic materials to charitable organizations that solicited donations from him.

By Martin Flumenbaum And Brad S. Karp

10 minute read

June 10, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Michael M. Martin, a distinguished professor of law at and associate dean for administration at Fordham University School of Law, writes that some interesting evidentiary issues have been raised in three recent New York medical malpractice cases.

By Michael M. Martin

10 minute read

November 15, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Two New Jersey companies, Emcore Corp. and Tyco International Ltd., announce that some of their executives have run afoul of stock-option dating regulations.

By Martin C. Daks

4 minute read

September 13, 2006 | Law.com

Bristol-Myers Squibb's CEO Peter Dolan and General Counsel Richard Willard resigned Tuesday, spurred by the recommendations of a federal monitor, after the company came perilously close to violating a deferred-prosecution agreement entered last year in the face of conspiracy and securities-fraud charges. Under such an accord, the monitor's recommendation generally carries the force of an order, say securities lawyers.

By Martin C. Daks

4 minute read

August 23, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, report on how the Second Circuit has evolved over the past two decades that they have been writing this column, including the court's changing caseload and evolving membership, the method and manner by which it disposes of cases and the length of time associated with such dispositions, trends in the availability of interlocutory review and more.

By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp

16 minute read