By: Timothy Murray ONE TIME, I WAS REVIEWING THE TERMS OF A PROPOSED contract with an executive for a client that was buying a product for a significant sum of money. The document had been drafted by the seller, and it contained the customary provision...

By: Robert D. Starin , K&L Gates LLP. The tax treatment of carried interest has for many years been a high-profile target for potential reform. “Carried interest” refers to the share of profits or gains from investment received by a...

By: Timothy Murray MURRAY, HOGUE & LANNIS Botched Force Majeure Clauses Expose Your Client to Needless Risk As if on autopilot, attorneys sometimes tack onto their contracts generic force majeure clauses, just because everybody else does it, without...

By: William C. Jhaveri-Weeks , Jhaveri-Weeks Law This article discusses the scope of discovery that plaintiffs can obtain from defendants in employment discrimination cases, including limitations on discovery that defendants often attempt to assert...

By: Daniel P. Adams, Gilbert G. Menna , and Ettore A. Santucci Goodwin Procter LLP LIKE ALL IPOS, THE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESS FOR A REIT IPO involves the preparation of a registration statement (albeit on a Form S-11 instead of a Form S-1), including a...