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City Seeks Proposals From Institutions for Conflict Cases
New York City last week issued a request for bids from institutional providers to handle conflict cases, a move that could sharply limit the practice of 18-B lawyers, who now take most of the cases of indigent criminal defendants who cannot be represented by organizations with a city contract. Word of the proposal caused "panic" to spread "through the ranks of 18-B lawyers," said Stephen J. Singer, a past president of the Queens County Bar Association and member of the Second Department's 18-B screening panel.
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Free With Registration: Father Granted Custody, Ruled More Stable Parent Despite Three Year Absence From Children's Lives
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Corporate and Securities Litigation
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Sarah S. Gold, a partner at Proskauer Rose LLP, and Richard L. Spinogatti, a senior counsel with the firm, review a recent decision arising out of the Bernard Madoff scandal where Southern District Judge Victor Marrero adopted Magistrate Judge Theodore Katz's report and recommendation rejecting a creative, but ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to secure a federal forum for a shareholder derivative suit involving purely state law claims.
Special Education Law
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Phyllis K. Saxe, a special education attorney in New York, and Sharon Stein, a partner at Stein & Ott, write: Matrimonial lawyers and family law practitioners are often asked to navigate complex areas of substantive law, such as tax law, trusts and estates, and the law of corporations, for example, in order to properly represent their clients. We submit that an understanding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act will facilitate the obligation of all lawyers involved in divorce proceedings to reach the result that is in the best interests of the child.
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Online Defamation and Anonymous Defendants
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Richard Raysman, a partner at Holland & Knight, and Peter Brown, a partner at Baker & Hostetler, review some of the emerging standards courts employ before allowing a plaintiff to discover the identity of anonymous defendants in online defamation cases, as well as discuss other practical concerns that should be addressed before seeking legal redress.
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A Look at the Current Muddled State of the Federal Estate Tax
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Leo Matarazzo and Gary A. Phillips, members of Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, write: The repeal of the federal estate and the generation skipping transfer taxes - and the ensuing legislative uncertainty - has forced advisers to consider all possible alternatives in planning, and has them even attempting the impossible task of predicting the future.
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REAL ESTATE TRENDS
Split Between Departments Muddies Subrogation Doctrine
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman, partners of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., write: In an era when this nation's economic stability depends, in part, on stable and unfettered real estate transfers, equitable subrogation provides a solution to some of the cracks in the system. However, as evidenced by a split between two departments of the Appellate Division, these cracks need some additional caulking to make sure that the right lien obtains priority.
More from Real Estate Trends...CORPORATE UPDATE
Free With Registration: Rulings Raise Questions on Lenders' Right to Credit Bid
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Alan M. Christenfeld, senior counsel at Clifford Chance US, and Barbara M. Goodstein, a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf, write that despite the uncertainties imposed by the rulings in In re Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC and In re Pacific Lumber Co., which held that the Bankruptcy Code does not require credit bidding any time a sale of assets occurs under a plan, each provides guidance as to how to avoid the risk meant to be protected by credit bidding - forced sale of collateral for less than its full value.
More from the Corporate Update...SPECIAL REPORTS AND MAGAZINES
White-Collar Crime
Monday, February 8, 2010
In this Special Section from the New York Law Journal: "Wiretaps for Dummies," "The Tax Man Cometh" and "Snaring 'Control Person' Executives in FCPA Liability."
Also, in the highlighted article from this section,
Free With Registration: Corporate Strategy When Legal Problems Go Transnational
Peter Goldsmith, Michael B. Mukasey and Mary Jo White, partners at Debevoise & Plimpton, discuss the increasingly assertive international white-collar enforcement and cooperation among the world's regulators, which can include real-time information sharing, coordinated raids and searches, assistance in tracing movements of funds across borders, and efforts to coordinate resolutions of their investigations. What does this era of cooperation mean for companies?
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