Mitchell

August 19, 2008 | Legaltech News

Virtual worlds mean more than slipping into the persona of an avatar. The business lawyer who ignores the potential impact of virtual reality on global commerce is like the lawyer who, 15 years ago, ignored the Internet's potential to transform business and life as we know it.

By Cathryn A. Mitchell

8 minute read

December 20, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Clyde Mitchell, adjunct professor of banking law at Fordham Law School, writes that while some forecasts have been made regarding a number of pending issues (e.g., government sponsored enterprises, subprime lending, industrial loan companies, and so on), not much has been said regarding the badly needed restructuring of our Federal Bank Regulators.

By Clyde Mitchell

14 minute read

March 07, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

By treating the due diligence process with the great significance that it deserves, a buyer who has not caused an environmental discharge can escape being deemed a party liable under the law to pay for the cleanup.

By Mitchell H. Kizner and Amy M. Trojecki

9 minute read

May 11, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Congress has gotten the message, the administration and the market are on board, and even the government-sponsored enterprises appear to be resigned. Closure is near!

By Clyde Mitchell

12 minute read

April 18, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Clyde Mitchell, adjunct professor of banking law at Fordham Law School, asks: What will happen to Fannie and Freddie? These GSEs, he writes, operate with the "implicit" guarantee of the U.S. government and with much more financial leverage (i.e., less capital) than our banks, and promote housing for low-income home buyers by providing a secondary mortgage market.

By Clyde Mitchell

14 minute read

March 18, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By Clyde Mitchell

12 minute read

December 28, 2006 | New York Law Journal

New York practitioners Mitchell S. Lustig and Jill Lakin Schatz write that a recent Second Department decision continues the trend of cases where the courts have shown a tendency to provide a heightened degree of protection to those insureds who have opted to pay an additional premium and purchase SUM coverage as opposed to those who only maintain the statutory uninsured motorist endorsement.

By Mitchell S. Lustig and Jill Lakin Schatz

11 minute read

September 21, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

J&J recently sued the American Red Cross for its use of the Cross Design in connection with the ARC's licensing of the design of commercial products manufactured by third parties. This is a modern example of the complexities of building and maintaining a worldwide brand.

By Cathryn A. Mitchell

7 minute read

August 11, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Jeffrey S. Siegel, a partner at Bruno, Gerbino & Soriano, and Mitchell S. Lustig, an associate at the firm, write that in a recent decision that is an obvious boon to the New York no-fault insurer, the Appellate Term, Second Department, expressly allowed a peer review doctor to testify based upon review of medical records prepared by third-party providers that were not in evidence, despite the hearsay objections of the plaintiff's counsel.

By Jeffrey S. Siegel and Mitchell S. Lustig

15 minute read

August 11, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

E-commerce involves not only the buying and selling of goods over the Internet, but is also a process of business communication through the application of technology to the automation of business transactions. And there is no greater debate regarding the flow of electronic commerce than that between the new open source paradigm, and the historic model of development of proprietary software within an enterprise.

By Cathryn Alexandra Mitchell

17 minute read