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August 21, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Family With Sex Offender as Neighbor Allowed to Move Without Forfeiting Rent

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September 28, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy

In this Special Section from the New York Law Journal: "When Private Equity Limited Partners Fail" and "Protection for Shareholder Payments in LBOs Gone Bad."
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November 15, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Corporate Securities

John C. Coffee, Jr., the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and director of its Center on Corporate Governance, writes that we are now less than a year from the next presidential election and the likelihood that, for the first time since 1994, a Democratic president will be coupled with a Democratic Congress. For the securities bar, this means that "reform" securities legislation will once again be possible and even predictable.
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September 02, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Surrogate's Court

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September 12, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Wiretaps and Fourth Amendment: Lessons From the Galleon Prosecutions

Robert C. Gottlieb, a founding member of Gottlieb & Gordon, and Derrelle M. Janey, an associate with the firm, write that law enforcement seems committed to employing electronic surveillance to develop evidence within the hedge fund and hedge fund-related community; therefore, there are several key points for the criminal defense bar to consider.
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August 04, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Albany Catches Up With Courts, Repeals Voided Loitering Laws

Governor David Paterson has signed a measure removing from the state Penal Law provisions that prohibited panhandling, engaging in or soliciting certain sex acts and sleeping in a transportation facility without a satisfactory explanation, which had been declared unconstitutional by the courts decades ago. "The way these statutes remained on the books, people were being arrested falsely and [city agencies and officers] were getting sued," said Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell, who sponsored the bill.
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November 16, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Bankruptcy Practice

John J. Rapisardi, a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and an adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law, reviews the first federal circuit court decision to address the appropriate method for determining the cramdown rate of interest applicable to secured claims in chapter 11 cases since the Supreme Court decided only the formula method was appropriate to calculate cramdown rates in chapter 13 cases but left open the question of whether it should also apply to chapter 11 cases.
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March 10, 2003 | New York Law Journal

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September 11, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Ex-Rite Aid Counsel Is About to Face Trial

Franklin Brown came to work at Rite-Aid's headquarters several times during the spring of 2001, even though he had retired a year earlier after three-and-a-half decades as the company's general counsel. But what was Mr. Brown doing when he made those visits? That question is at the heart of the government's case against the 76-year-old attorney.
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