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Eighth Circuit Lowers Tortious Interference Threshold in Trucking Company Case

In a ruling on May 27, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit arguably lowered the threshold for tortious interference claims.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Carrots and Sticks: An Update on Digital Coin Regulation

A uniform response to the 10-year old cryptocurrency phenomenon remains only a remote possibility, as regulators waver between encouraging registration of digital offerings and halting/disciplining those online issuers offering Quixotic returns.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Force Majeure Clauses and Commercial Leases

As businesses forced to close by emergency orders attempt to negotiate with landlords and other creditors and try to modify or terminate commercial leases, lawyers will need to think carefully about the doctrines of impossibility and frustration of purpose, as well as force majeure clauses.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Singapore Convention: A New Avenue for Corporate Counsel

The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, known more succinctly as the "Singapore Convention", is designed to enable cross-border enforcement in signatory countries of settlement agreements reached via mediation of international commercial disputes. The heart of the Convention is expressed in its article 3.1 which embodies this provision.
14 minute read

New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses "Board of Managers of 184 Thompson Street Condominium v. 184 Thompson Street Owner LLC," where the court held that a condo conversion sponsor correctly calculated the cooperative conversion reserve fund, and "Jensen v. 1050 Pacific LLC," where a motion for receiver was denied absent allegations of waste.
17 minute read

New York Law Journal

One-Year Foreclosure Moratorium Law Proposed

  Assembly Bill 10553 dated May 29, 2020 proposes a ban on foreclosure actions for at least a year and creates enormous problems and confusion…
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

In 'Liu v. SEC,' Disgorgement Survives, But With Conditions

On June 22, 2020, the Supreme Court saved the disgorgement remedy it called into question in 'Kokesh v. SEC,' but put the brakes on the SEC's more zealous applications that risked transforming it into an unauthorized penalty.
8 minute read

International Edition

Is Legal AI Making Lawyers Dumb? Quite The Contrary

"The value a lawyer brings to their clients is in their legal knowledge, strategy and guidance - not the manual review of documents," says the chief innovation officer of legal technology provider Disco.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Unintended Consequences: 10 Years of Rent Overcharge Reversals

Part 1 in a three-part series prepared in the wake of the Court of Appeals April decision in "Regina Metropolitan."
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ahead to the Past (Part III of III): The Evolution of New Rules of Engagement in the Age of Social Inflation and Nuclear Verdicts

The first two parts of this series discussed the role of certain tactics and improper summation techniques and what the defense bar and the judiciary can and should do to curb these abuses and restore sane, predictable, compensatory justice to the tort system. This third and last part turns outside the courtroom itself to the broader culture that enables these abuses.
13 minute read

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