Balancing Employee Privacy With Protection of Company Assets
Melissa Ventrone and Richard Reiter of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker write: With great strides in technology solutions for the workplace come numerous concerns about the management of...
View ArticleIdentity Management: The Key to Cyber Security and Online Commerce
Thomas Smedinghoff and Laurie Kamaiko of Locke Lord write: At the heart of most breaches is unauthorized access. As a result, identity management is an issue that is fast becoming a legal, technical,...
View ArticleFederal Court Notice Standard in Premises Cases
Steven M. Christman and Adam C. Calvert write: Defendants in personal injury cases sometimes remove a case to federal court because of several advantages: stricter discovery rules, more...
View ArticleBattle Over Interviewing Corporate Employees Continues
In his Professional Responsibility column, Anthony E. Davis discusses New York County Lawyers' Association Formal Opinion 747, which discusses whether and when it may be appropriate for a corporation's...
View ArticleDiscovery Motions and the Statute of Limitations
In her Trusts and Estates Update, Ilene Sherwyn Cooper reviews recent decisions addressed to the ramifications of a party's failure to timely comply with demands for discovery and the statute of...
View ArticleCases Address Use of ESI and Ethics Issues With the Cloud
Mark A. Berman, a partner at Ganfer & Shore, writes: Recent decisions address the production of metadata, the detail required in an ESI privilege log, the use of emails on a motion to dismiss, the...
View ArticleWhite-Collar Enforcement Under Attorney General Eric Holder
In their White-Collar Crime column, Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack give their impressions of how the DOJ responded to the financial crisis, including some seeming innocuous choices that may have...
View ArticleMedical Malpractice on the High Seas
Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen write: Each year more than 10 million consumers purchase a cruise ship vacation departing from and returning to a U.S. port located primarily in the State of...
View ArticleReturn to the Bear Stearns' D&O Insurance Dispute
In their Corporate Insurance Law column, Howard B. Epstein and Theodore A. Keyes write that a lawsuit in which Bear Stearns sought indemnification from its insurers after settlements with the SEC, the...
View ArticleRealty Law Digest
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law reviews ?42nd and 10th Assoc. v. Ikezi ,? where the court held that using a residential...
View ArticleFour Year Rule: More Confusion
In their Rent Stabilization Column, Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel write: The Court of Appeals' Feb. 24, 2015 ruling in 'Conason v. Megan Holding' constitutes the high court's latest attempt to...
View ArticleMarketplace
The law firm of Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman has found office space in a new building—but with the same landlord it has had for the past 15 years. Also, OSP Group is on course to relocate to downtown...
View Article'Finality' of Multidistrict Litigation Dismissal Orders
In their Appellate Practice column, Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty, Jr. analyze the U.S. Supreme Court's recent holding in 'Gelboim v. Bank of America' that a district court order dismissing the...
View ArticleSufficiency of Email Notice of Board and Owner Meetings
In their Cooperatives and Condominiums column, Richard Siegler and Eva Talel write: In New York, both the law and co-op and condominium governing documents continue to lag behind innovation in...
View ArticleUber: Does New Ticket to Ride Carry Personal Risks?
Andrea M. Alonso and Kevin G. Faley write: A look at the numbers for Uber seem to paint the picture of a brilliant business model, with a customer base growing exponentially. But, are some Uber...
View ArticleHigh-Frequency Trading: Enforcement Trends Emerge
In his Corporate Crime column, William F. Johnson, a partner at King & Spalding, writes: A review of recent actions related to high-frequency trading confirms the uncertainty of the role of law...
View ArticleThe Constable Blunders: Mistakes of Law and Fact
In his Criminal Law and Procedure column, Barry Kamins writes: In New York, lower courts have been forgiving of reasonable factual mistakes by law enforcement officers while a mistake of law has...
View ArticleThe Benighted Expert: Professional Literature in Court
In his Matrimonial Practice column, Timothy M. Tippins examines the central position that professional literature occupies in the psychology expert's world and its crucial evidentiary role in providing...
View ArticleForum Non Conveniens in International Matrimonial Litigation
Rong Kohtz writes: In this era of globalization, many families maintain multiple residences in different countries and bear different nationalities. Consequently, family members may be subject to...
View ArticleChallenging Fraud by Employers in Workers' Compensation
In his Insurance Fraud column, Evan H. Krinick explores some of the methods disreputable employers sometimes use to avoid their obligations under New York's Workers' Compensation Law and a recent Third...
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