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Government Seizes 650 Park Avenue
by According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has filed a forfeiture proceeding against 650 Fifth …
Lawyers and the Social Internet
Kevin O’Keefe, of Real Lawyers Have Blogs, put together his thoughts on what are the best social internet places for a lawyer or law firm …
Newton And The Charles River
The Boston Globe West has a story from the Newton History Museum at The Jackson Homestead focusing on the impact of the Charles River on …
Book Review: Slicing The Silence
Since The Son and The Daughter came I have become an armchair adventurer rather than an outdoor adventurer. The tale of Shackleton’s adventure to Antarctica …
Stealing the Empire State Building
The New York Daily News tried to show that it is easy to “steal” property by filing fake deeds. The story is rather foolish, but …
Tenant Allowance and Build-Out Obligations When a Tenant Files for Bankruptcy
Sutherland published a timely legal alert on what a landlord can do with a tenant allowance and tenant build-out obligations when a tenant goes bankrupt: …
The Pirate’s Dilemma
The delightful Connie Crosby of Crosby Group Consulting gave me this book on her recent trip to Boston. Matt Mason traces the current web 2.0 …
Book Review: The Pirate’s Dilemma
Matt Mason traces the current web 2.0 movement back to the 1970’s punk rock culture. He starts with focus on a quote from punk fanzine …
Not Not Creating a Title Insurance Behemoth
The off and on combination of Land America Financial Group with Fidelity National Title Title is back again. LandAmerica press release: LandAmerica Signs Stock Purchase …
Not Creating a Title Insurance Behemoth
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF – News) canceled its plans to acquire LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: LFG – News) . The combination would …
Why Blog?
Mary Abraham of the Above and Beyond KM blog asked me: How do I decide how/what/when to blog? To answer these questions, I need to …
A Look at Commercial Real Estate Debt
The Real Estate and Real Estate Capital Markets Group at Goodwin Procter put together A Look at Commercial Real Estate Debt: Where We Are Now …
Creating a Title Insurance Behomoth
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF – News) and LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: LFG – News) today announced the signing of a definitive merger …
Essential Blog Elements
Kevin O’Keefe of Real Lawyers Have Blogs put together some key elements to have on your blog: Essential law blog pages needed to promote yourself. …
Blogging / Social Internet Policy for a Law Firm
I would appreciate your thoughts on this policy focused. It is written from an agnostic policy perspective, neither prohibiting nor promoting blogs or social media. …
Happy Halloween!
I love carving pumpkins on Halloween. Here is the one I did last night: You can see the rest over at DougCornelius.com/pumpkins
FinCEN Withdraws Proposed Rulemaking for Unregistered Investment Companies
On September 26, 2002, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a notice of proposed rulemaking, proposing to require unregistered investment companies to establish and implement anti-money …