New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Anthony E. Davis and Anthony J. Sebok | August 31, 2018
The New York City Bar ethics committee recently issued Formal Opinion 2018-5: Litigation Funders' Contingent Interest in Legal Fees.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Edward E. Neiger | August 30, 2018
This issue of the Bankruptcy Update focuses on recent restructurings in the paper and printing industry. The column delves into the bankruptcy proceedings of Appvion and Cenveo who won confirmation of their respective plans this month.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Barry Black and Jonathan Robert Nelson | August 29, 2018
In Barry Black and Jonathan Robert Nelson's Religion Law column, the pair writes that there are limits to what employers must do to accommodate employees' bona fide religious beliefs.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Abby Tolchinsky and Ellie Wertheim | August 28, 2018
An important component of cultivating understanding of the parties' perspectives: the mediator must be aware of the biases that influence parties' behavior in the face of conflict.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By John J. Rapisardi and Joseph Zujkowski | August 24, 2018
In our June 8, 2016 column, we discussed the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York's (the Bankruptcy Court) opinion in the Sabine Chapter 11 cases allowing Sabine (a large Houston-based “upstream operator”) to reject “gathering agreements” with certain “midstream operators.”
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Conrad Teitell | August 24, 2018
The donor allocates the property's cost basis between the gift element and the sale element, based on the fair market value of each part.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Andrew Longstreth | August 22, 2018
In another lifetime, when I was a legal reporter, I remember getting a slightly queasy feeling in my stomach when I noticed legal blogs sprouting wildly 15 years ago. While some were dry, others were lively and engaging. I saw the future and it was filled with more competition.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul | August 20, 2018
New York's economic loss rule, which acts as a check on asserting tort claims for purely economic damages, has long confounded practitioners.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Sidney Kess | August 20, 2018
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) did not make any major changes for the taxation of gains and losses from securities transactions.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By William B. Stock | August 17, 2018
Busy appellate courts have adopted rules that allow them to dispense with oral argument if they see no need for it, and many appellate judges have said that argument only “occasionally” changes their mind. But what if your appeal is one of those “occasional” ones? This article offers up some suggestions for making your best oral argument after you have locked your finest written efforts into print.
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