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February 21, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Business Rulings Favor Uniform Federal Regime

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May 18, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Improper Solicitation, Post-Release Supervision, Stabilized Rent Increases

In their New York Court of Appeals Roundup, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partners Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry discuss: a decision arising out of the sale of a business in which the Court of Appeals provided some guidance on what constitutes improper solicitation by the seller of its former clients; a decision resolving six cases in which the sentencing court failed to impose post-release supervision during the initial sentencing hearing; and the Court's take on whether the New York City Rent Guidelines Board has the authority to promulgate orders allowing different rent increases for apartments based upon whether there had been a recent vacancy.
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June 08, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Gifts: Validity, Enforceability, Fodder for Litigation

In her Trusts and Estates Update, Ilene Sherwyn Cooper, a partner at Farrell Fritz, addresses decisions respecting inter vivos gift transactions, providing the practitioner with useful instruction as to their enforceability.
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December 01, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Selective Waiver

Peter K. Vigeland and Robert W. Trenchard, partners at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, and Daniel C. Richenthal and Michelle E. Kanter, associates at the firm, write that recently, there has been an effort by both the executive and the legislative branch to roll back the perceived "culture of waiver" that had evolved as a result of government policy and judicial decision. These efforts have resulted both in changes to executive branch policy in seeking waivers, and in the law of waiver itself in the form of Federal Rule of Evidence 502. And these changes in turn materially alter the calculus that counsel representing companies in these situations must go through in advising their clients.
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February 18, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Law Department Paralegal Helps His Band Win a Grammy

Monday morning at New York City's Law Department presented "nothing out of the ordinary" for Peter Nater, an investigator in the tort division's Special Litigation Unit. "I had a couple of police officers coming in to prepare for depositions," said Mr. Nater � by night a trumpeter with the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. And � oh yes � there was his personal news: the 13-piece band won a Grammy award in Los Angeles on Sunday evening for the year's best salsa album, entitled "Across 110th Street."
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April 03, 2008 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

Hedge fund Halcyon Asset Management LLC., will go public through its acquisition by blank check company Alternative Asset Management Acquisition Corporation for $974 million. Also, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will sell its 16.3 percent stake in the Bermuda-based insurer White Mountain Insurance Group Ltd. for $836 million.
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November 06, 2007 | New York Law Journal

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June 21, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law, analyzes recent caselaw springing from a shopping center's dispute of a tax assessment and a FOIL request seeking a waiting list for Mitchell-Lama co-ops.
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January 26, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Refining 'Miranda': Determining Two-Stage Interrogations

In their Second Circuit Review, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp, members of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, review a decision handed down in December, United States v. Capers, which clarifies fundamental Second Circuit and Supreme Court precedent, providing critical guidance to district courts that apply Miranda, and has likely placed the circuit at the center of future Miranda legal discourse.
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September 24, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Law Firm Partnership Law

Arthur J. Ciampi, the managing member of Ciampi LLC, presents a limited review of a new set of ethics rules for lawyers in New York adpoted in April, focusing in particular on how the new rules impact the conflict of interest rules pertaining to lateral transactions of law firm partners.
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