Author: Richard Staff
Your Monday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.Read More
Florida’s coastal residents know to brace for storm surge, but during 2024’s Hurricane Milton, it was inland communities that suffered some of the greatest flooding. It took three weeks for water to recede from some neighborhoods, remembered Polk County Commissioner Becky Troutman. Her community, along Central Florida’s busy I-4 corridor, is among the nation’s fastest-growing […]Read More
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Chronicle readers comment on Prop 39 and voter ID laws, President Trump and China, war with Iran, the Bay Area Regional Transit Measure and AI.Read More
The partner is the third prominent exit from the firm’s London office in under three weeks.Read More
Under existing California court rules, prospective jurors may be excused from service when a disability or medical condition prevents them from serving.Read More
Oklahoma cities have strict leash laws. Learn where you can legally let your dog run free in designated parks.Read More
How courts are recharacterizing MCA agreements—and what it means for lenders and borrowers alike.Read More
Judge Sean H. Lane published an opinion (In re Nussbaum Lowinger LLP) about when a chapter 11, filed after an ABC was pending, can and can’t pull assets out of the ABC. Given the rise in use of ABCs generally, Judge Lane’s guidelines are practical practice points relevant to all restructuring attorneys.Read More
The article examines recent Serta Simmons and Del Monte Foods decisions through a practical lens: despite the complexity and increasing creativity of liability management transactions, the disputes they generate still tend to turn on basic principles of contract interpretation and, ultimately, the particular words on the page. Rather than treating “LME” as a single legal category. The author evaluates how the courts approached the specific contractual language and transaction mechanics in each case and examines what the differing results mean for lenders, borrowers, and practitioners drafting, structuring, or litigating future transactions.Read More
Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi’s body was found dismembered. Her ex-husband, his father and brother are accused of killing her.Read More