The sovereign debt dispute involving Argentine bonds has attracted substantial attention and raised a number of novel and significant legal issues. This short essay provides a brief overview of this controversy. In 2001, the Republic of Argentina experienced a severe economic crisis. Inflation rose to over 40%, the stock market lost 60% of its value,
In an important recent ruling, the Delaware Supreme Court confirmed what many practitioners long suspected: that a secured creditor that mistakenly authorizes the filing of a “termination statement” will lose the lien covered by the termination statement, even though the creditor did not intend to release the lien. In Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of
Philadelphia hosted the inaugural Forbes Under 30 Summit, held October 19-22, 2014 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The event brought together over 1,000 members of Forbes “30 Under 30” list with an array of business leaders and mentors. I attended as a roving correspondent for 10-Q. Peter Thiel, Co-Founder and former CEO of PayPal, and
Integrity and inclusion. These were the themes of a special Temple Law Review Symposium held Friday, October 24, 2014 at the Law School in honor of University of Wisconsin emeritus professor Bill Whitford. I organized the Symposium, which was attended by nearly 150 lawyers, scholars, and law students. If you read that carefully, you may wonder: why would
A “series LLC” is an LLC that has one or more “series.” A “series” is like, but not quite, a subsidiary. About a dozen states currently offer series LLCs. Most can have their own assets and liabilities. Internal liability shields provide that assets associated with a series are available only to creditors of that series,
Temple Law School has long been known for its trial advocacy programs. What some may not know is that its transactional programs are growing fast, and provide students with innovative hands-on opportunities to develop competitive business transactional skills, such as negotiating and drafting corporate documents During my 3L year, I had the opportunity to immerse
Franchising is a growing business model in the U.S. As franchising grows, however, franchisors can compete with their franchisees over the right to goodwill generated by the franchisee. I have recently completed a dissertation in Temple’s doctoral program that examines legal mechanisms to address expropriation of goodwill generated by franchisees, and proposes an alternative solution.
In ABC v. Aereo, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, held that Aereo, Inc.’s subscription service – which gave subscribers access over the Internet to a miniature TV antenna and a miniature DVR housed in Aereo’s facility, allowing them to record over-the-air broadcast television signals (like the ones transmitted by your local ABC affiliate)
Harold Kohn, the Philadelphia lawyer who was the architect of the modern-day class action, will be honored in memoriam this fall at Temple Law. On October 9, to mark what would have been Kohn’s 100th birthday, Temple will host a lecture sponsored by Kohn’s eponymous chaired professorship, and delivered by Delaware Chief Justice Leo E.
Increasingly, online merchants, together with brick-and-mortar sellers and data intermediaries, are knitting together mass data collection, the interconnective power of the “Internet of Things” and automated algorithmic pricing and selling with their existing retailing and supply-chain businesses. The result of this coordination is that traditional sales functions such as competitive intelligence gathering and pricing are