Safeguards for the Paperless Registry of Deeds
by Dick Howe of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds in Lowell wrote about the safeguards being put in place as the real estate records are …
Author: Doug Cornelius
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Galactic Suite Hotel
Get ready to make your reservations. The Galactic Suite Space Resort is planning its first accommodations by 2012. [Company News] They expect to start selling …
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Vintage Wine Trust
I just ran across this real estate company: Vintage Wine Trust. They are the only Real Estate Investment Trust to focus solely on the wine …
New Uniform Act on Limited Liability Companies
The ABA approved the new Uniform Act on Limited Liability Companies [Press Release] updating the 1996 Act. Limited Liability Companies still dominate the ownership structures …
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Teaching the Rule Against Perpetuities?
Professor Ilya Somin, George Mason University School of Law, is thinking of not teaching the Rule Against Perpetuities: Should We Teach Law Students the Rule …
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Rotating Skyscraper
Not content with having the tallest building, now Dubai wants a building that spins. Plans are underway for a 68- story combination hotel, apartment and …
Copyrights in Legal Documents
I just finished readig an article by Thomas J. Stueber in The Internet & Copyright Lawyer: Due Diligence in Drafting: Copyrights in Legal Documents. He …
Turning a Debt into A Personal Guaranty
In the case of Orix Financial Services, Inc. v. Leclair (S.D.N.Y. Feb 26, 2007) the court found that under Rhode Island law, an individual who …
Debt Market Update – LIBOR Upswing
I got this update from Chatham Financial this morning: As many of you may have already heard, 1M LIBOR opened up 19bps this morning. This …
Debt Markets Continue to Implode
Real Estate Finance and Investment is reporting that five securitizations worth at least $4.8 billion have been pulled from the market in the last week. …
Building the Tallest Building
Younan Properties seems to think it can build the tallest building in the world: Younan Vows To Build Tallest Building. Of course they have not …
How Knowledge Management is like Golf
Dale Arseneault seems to bee enjoying his summer since he is using golf to compare knowledge management: How Knowledge Management is like Golf
Acceleration Clause Upheld For Lease Default
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court allowed a commercial landlord to enforce a liquidated damages clause against a tenant for non-payment of rent in Cummings Properties, …
Tour de France
I starting watching the Tour de France several years ago. My wife had knee surgery in June of 2001 and was laid up on the …
Trustee of Nominee Trust Not Liable Under Lead Paint Suit
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled in the case of BELLEMARE vs. CLERMONT that the trustee of a nominee trust is not an “owner” of the …
Bad Boy Guaranty
Bruce Falby wrote an article in Real Estate Finance and Investment on the case of Blue Hills Office Park LLC v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, …
Best Efforts vs. Reasonable Efforts
Ken Adams, author of A Manual of style for Contract Drafting, published this article in The Practical Lawyer: Understanding Best Efforts and Its Variants. I …
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Boston’s Historic Ames Building Will Become Boutique Hotel
The Ames Building on the corner of Court Street and the Washington Mall has changed hands to another owner who will try to convert it …
Why Blog? – Blogging Offers a Lift to Your Career
As I was lying on the couch reading The Boston Sunday Globe I came across an article by Penelope Trunk in the jobs section: Blogging …
Swarm Behavior
National Geographic Magazine this month has a story on how the study of swarm intelligence and how it is providing insight on managing complex systems: …