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A stellar investigative report in the Washington Post today by Peter Finn and Joby Warrick details:
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“Rent, Rip and Return”. It is a phrase that sends chills up the spine up of movie industry executives. These same executives contend that this phenomena is one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry’s annual $20 billion DVD market.
“Rent, Rip and Return” is basically renting a movie, and using various software programs [...]
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Illustrator Maira Kalman has created an inspiring graphic representation of her recent visit to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that appears in today’s New York Times. I found both the illustrations and the text to be enchanting. It turns out that Justice Ginsburg loves the painter Henri Matisse, as do I, and her illustrations evoke his style and use of color. One of Kalman’s illustrations depicts her hotel room, which has a French feel to it. Later we learn that Justice Ginsburg has purchased some of her signature lacy collars in Paris. Kalman decides that Ginsburg has supplanted Jane Austen as her imaginary best friend forever. This feature is a lovely treat for a beautiful spring day. Read the rest of this entry »
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The first prosecution of a pirate in the U.S. in 100 years! The world watched closely as Richard Phillips, Captain of the Maersk Alabama cargo ship was rescued, after being held hostage by four Somali pirates. Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome piracy law expert, Professor Samuel P. Menefee, Maury Fellow at University of Virginas Center for Ocean Law and Policy and Attorney Joseph R. McFaul from Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP and a retired Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, to explore the legal issues on the high seas surrounding the Somali pirates, the future of the captured pirate and how this case could be a deterrent in other incidents of piracy.
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The Split Dollar Agreement for Mountain 1st Bank & Trust Company was made available today by online legal document provider RealDealDocs.com.
The Mountain 1st Bank & Trust Company split dollar agreement with an executive employee was recently amended to restate the division of the death proceeds of a life insurance policy through Midland National Life Insurance [...]
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From Robert Ambrogi at Legal Blog Watch (and with a tip of the OOTJ hat to my colleague Irene Good!), Read the rest of this entry »
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The Ardea Biosciences Inc. general security agreement with Oxford Finance Corporation and Silicon Valley Bank is a loan and security agreement concerning an eighty thousand dollar loan. Another Silicon Valley Bank general security agreement is the Drugtore.com Inc. loan and secuirty agreement drafted and released in March 2009. Both of these General Security Agreements are available in their entirety on the RealDealDocs.com website.
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When I worked at the University of Pennsylvania Law Library, I had the pleasure of knowing Professor Elizabeth Warren, a leading bankruptcy scholar, who has since left and now teaches at Harvard Law School. She is the subject of a recent Newsweek article, entitled “The Debt Crusader,” describing her new post as head of the “Congressional Oversight Panel, the group that’s critiquing the government’s bank bailout and advising legislators on how to reform the financial system. For years Warren has been an outspoken critic of banks, and in this new job she’s got her best chance yet to see her views turned into law. That’s a prospect that pains financial lobbyists, who basically despise her.” Why do these lobbyists hate Professor Warren? She has been an outspoken critic of the consumer credit industry for many years, believing that easy credit is at least part of the cause of the increase in personal bankruptcy. The article describes the Panel’s work to date, and speculates about the direction in which the Panel might go in the future. Not everyone believes that Professor Warren is the right person to head up this group. For instance, a very critical Forbes.com article about the initial work of the Panel and Professor Warren was published yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Is the civil jury trial an endangered species? On this special edition of the Boston Bar, hosts Attorney Jim Brady from Brady & Monac and Attorney Paul F. Kenney from Kenney & Conley welcome Chief Justice William G. Young, United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts and Attorney Holly M. Polglase from Campbell, Campbell Edwards & Conroy, to discuss the vanishing civil jury trial against the backdrop of the constitutional right to a trial by jury.
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Evercore Partners Inc. amended their limited partnership agreement in order to permit the withdrawal of the organizational limited partner, Evercore Mexico Management II and to allow for the admission of a number of limited partners. The Acadia Realty Trust limited partnership agreement was also amended to implement the admission of partners and set forth the designations, rights, powers, duties and preferences of the holders of any additional partnership interests. Both of these limited partnership agreements are available in their entirety on the RealDealDocs.com website.
