Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Governor Cuomo Signs the COVID-19 Emergency Protect Our Small Businesses Act of 2021 Establishing Eviction and Foreclosure Protections For Small Businesses

Business Divorce

Conflicts of Laws and the Internal Affairs DoctrineIs Loss Sharing an "Indispensable Essential" of Partnership?Never the Twain Shall Meet: Damages Claims Do Not Offset the Purchase Price in Buy-Sell Agreements

Civil Litigation

Supreme Court To Decide Standard For Government Dismissal Of False Claims Act CasesHerbal COVID Remedy Is Not The Government's Cup of TeaEDNY Certifies Interlocutory Appeal of False Claims Case To Second Circuit

Commercial Litigation

Rule Change Alert: Readability Is Key For Responsive Pleadings Under New Rule 6 (d)Civility at Depositions: Court Orders Veteran Attorneys to Play Nice in the SandboxHave Commercial Dispute, Will Travel (to New York)

Corporate

Has the Time Come for New York to Follow Delaware and Officially Pronounce Deadlock as Ground for LLC Dissolution?Commercial Division Grants $1 Million Punitive-Damage Award for Diversion of Company’s IP in Breach of Fiduciary DutyPotential Creditor Drags Corporation in Stalled Dissolution Proceeding into Receivership

COVID-19 Resources

Even as Pandemic Wanes, Remote Depositions Remain the New NormalNew Law Authorizes Virtual Option for Public MeetingsNorthwell Loses Bid For COVID-19 Insurance Coverage

e-Discovery

Court Sends Signal to Parties Who Spoliated Documents Using Ephemeral MessagesIf You See Something, Say Something: FinCEN Updates Advisory on Managing Ransomware AttacksCourt Reminds Parties That Discovery Orders Are Not a Hoax

Emerging Companies

FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried and the Risk of Unchecked Founder Control“Beyond Redemption”: SPAC Shareholder Redemptions and New Excise Tax Could Lead to Year-End Rush to Close or Liquidate“So What?”:  Twitter Resists Merger Agreement Termination by Invoking Musk’s Unclean Hands

Energy

Lightning Round – New York’s Office of Renewable Energy Siting Promulgates Streamlined Siting Regulations for Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects

Environmental

Lightning Round – New York’s Office of Renewable Energy Siting Promulgates Streamlined Siting Regulations for Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects

Estate Litigation

SCPA 2103 Proceedings – A Fiduciary’s Right to Commence a Licensed Fishing ExpeditionThird Department Examines In Terrorem ClauseAppellate Division Addresses the Removal of a Fiduciary

Featured

#MeToo and Business Divorce: The Flip SidePrejudgment Attachment Orders: High Stakes, Higher BurdenIf You See Something, Say Something: FinCEN Updates Advisory on Managing Ransomware Attacks

Government

Supreme Court To Decide Standard For Government Dismissal Of False Claims Act CasesHerbal COVID Remedy Is Not The Government's Cup of TeaEDNY Certifies Interlocutory Appeal of False Claims Case To Second Circuit

Healthcare

Supreme Court To Hear Argument Addressing Doctors’ Good Faith Defense To Pill Mill ProsecutionsCANNABIS IN NEW YORK STATE: JUST THE FACTSNorthwell Loses Bid For COVID-19 Insurance Coverage

Land Use & Municipal

To BESS, or Not to BESS? The Emergence of Battery Storage Systems on Long IslandGovernor Hochul’s Ambitious Statewide Strategy to Address New York’s Housing CrisisIs Prior Precedent Dead in the Village of Southampton? Depends on Who You Ask.

Real Estate

To BESS, or Not to BESS? The Emergence of Battery Storage Systems on Long IslandGovernor Hochul’s Ambitious Statewide Strategy to Address New York’s Housing CrisisIs Prior Precedent Dead in the Village of Southampton? Depends on Who You Ask.

Tax

How Dealings between Related Parties Doomed a Captive InsurerCorporate Tax Hike on the Horizon: Using Reasonable Compensation to Withdraw ValueLou Vlahos Quoted in Forbes’ Recent Article on Proposed Wealth Tax Act