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Texas Lawyer

Newsmakers: Week of July 27

Dallas Family Law Attorney Tapped to Lead Texas Young Lawyers Britney E. Harrison , a family law firm associate at GoransonBain Ausley, has taken on…
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New York Law Journal

Bank of America Agrees to Pay Settlement to Adults With Disabilities in Fair Housing Act Case

The proposed settlement, which is subject to approval by a federal judge, resolves prosecutors' claims that Bank of America had a policy of denying mortgage loans and home equity loans to adults who had legal guardianships or conservatorships.
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Law.com

Compliance Hot Spots: Covid-19 Era Lobbying | Leadership at DC's U.S. Attorney Office in Focus | SBA and Transparency | Who Got the Work | Skadden Grows CFIUS Team

Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, and thanks for reading. Reporting this week on new lobbying numbers ties to the pandemic, and we've got links to all the big new compliance headlines, including a report on leadership in the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Columbia.
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New York Law Journal

Volcker Rule Covered Funds Revisions Finalized: Impact on Non-US Banks

In Kathleen A. Scott's International Banking Law column, she discusses some of the final rule's provisions that might be of most interest to non-U.S. banking organizations.
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Daily Business Review

Wrinkle in Real Estate Bankruptcy Law Leaves Room for Pandemic Cases

Single-asset real estate filings fast-track bankruptcy reorganizations giving distressed borrowers 90 days to come up with a loan restructuring plan that the lender may not like.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

A Perfect Financial Stress Storm: A Q&A With Dorsey & Whitney's Joseph Acosta

Texas Lawyer spoke with Dorsey & Whitney partner Joseph Acosta about the financial health of many big-name oil and gas, retail, restaurants and travel companies.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Designing a Foreclosure Sale Under the UCC During COVID-19

In their Real Estate Financing column Jeffrey B. Steiner and Scott A. Weinberg review the recent case, D2 Mark v. OREI VI Investments to understand how the court's decision may provide mezzanine lenders with guidance in structuring a UCC foreclosure sale auction in the COVID-19 landscape so as to strengthen their position against any claims by the mezzanine borrower that the sale is not commercially reasonable.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Aventura Attorney Closes $15 Million Recap Loan for New Office Building

Developer David Mendal is an entrepreneur whose Forest Travel is the official travel agency for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flight venture.
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National Law Journal

Justices Rule for Trump in House Subpoena Case, But President Can't Shield Records from NY Grand Jury

In the New York grand jury case, Roberts wrote: "We reaffirm that principle today and hold that the President is neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers nor entitled to a heightened standard of need."
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Law.com

Compliance Hot Spots: Major US Firms Picked Up PPP Loans | New & Notable FARA Filings | Which Firm Turned Down Jeff Sessions | Who Got the Work | Akin Gump's New Hires

Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, and good evening from Washington. We've got some new reporting on the firms that got PPP loans, and check out new and notable FARA registrations. Scroll down for major white-collar and regulatory headlines, and Who Got the Work. Thanks for reading!
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