The Uniform Commercial Code’s section regarding Risk of Loss is a great example of why counsel’s periodic review of a client’s day-to-day operations may prove to be an excellent investment in light of the serious ramifications which can bind clients in seemingly benign transactions.  Assume the...

Many trial attorneys prepare summations before voir dire or opening statements because an effective summation will have a nexus with voir dire and opening statements such positions can be taken with the jury or judge premised upon what the admissible evidence will show.  Although the...

In the modern world, computers have revolutionized the way business is conducted, but such technological innovation inevitably led to novel methods of conducting crime and civil torts.  In 1986, to protect the public from such crime, Congress enacted The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”)....

Dissolution of a domestic corporation can be achieved by the shareholders on consent, via judicial Order pursuant to Business Corporation Law § 1104-a, or in accordance with Tax Law § 203-a when the New York Secretary of State effectuates a dissolution by proclamation, and annuls the corporation’s...

A recent decision from the Court of Appeals clarifying the standard to obtain non-party discovery, coupled with proposed new guidelines for obtaining electronically stored information (“ESI”) from non-parties in Commercial Division cases, provide the Commercial Division practitioner with an easier...

In February 2011 we reviewed JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Pinzler, 28 Misc.3d 1214(A), pertaining to an attorney’s liability for disbursement of counterfeit funds.  In Pinzler, the defendant attorney was found liable to the plaintiff bank for disbursing funds to a client that was drawn on a...