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The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I had a several-day deposition when a ranking officer in the corporation who I represent was confronted with documents that appeared to be dated after the fact. Upon further review, there were serious questions as to the accuracy of the documents or whether there were fabrications. What are my responsibilities?
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

5 Simple Steps for Building a Lasting Habit for Corporate Counsel

As corporate counsel, you make important decisions for your company each day. Your direction makes ideas into reality for your company. Your judgment moves mountains. Why not move mountains in your own daily life?
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

In his Realty Law Digest, Scott E. Mollen discusses “John T Walsh Enterprises LLC v. Grace Christian Church,” where the court cites Religious Corporations Law §12(9) to find a mortgage invalid.
11 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What Businesses Should Know About the EU's New Directive on Copyright Law

The directive will require major changes for online content sharing services. Under existing law, services are immune from liability for copyright infringement resulting from user-posted content so long as they act promptly to remove material when an objection is raised.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Everybody's Talking About Opportunity Zones, But Are They Right for Every Investor?

Real estate developers have jumped on the opportunity zone bandwagon to take advantage of the tax benefits.
5 minute read

The Recorder

What's Yours is Mine? Transmutation in Estate Planning

In California, spouses can transmute property by written agreement.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I represent a husband who has an ongoing domestic case for support and property issues with his wife. As part of trying to resolve those issues, a full and complete specific summary of his assets, bank accounts, etc. was given to his wife's attorney. His wife's attorney had another client who turns out to be suing the husband and attempting to execute on judgment.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Legal Department 3.0: What Is Your Data Telling You?

Forward-looking legal departments have made big strides over the past decade using advanced technology applications to automate processes and create new cost efficiencies. Powerful new tools allow us to manage complex, high-volume legal matters more effectively.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Dispositive Motions in Arbitration: Contrary to the Rationale for ADR?

Lawyers who are used to litigating their cases in federal court—and are comfortable with attempting to dispose of the great majority of them through summary judgment or, to a lesser extent, motions to dismiss—have sought to use dispositive motions as a primary tool in arbitrations.
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

America's Opioid Crisis: What Employers and Their Counsel Need to Know

In addition to causing widespread misery in society as a whole, opioids are producing specific challenges in the workplace. As just one example, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 25-percent increase from 2012 to 2017 in the number of workers fatally overdosing on the job.
6 minute read

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