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Hurricane Season is Here – Is Your Facility Ready?

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

Senior Housing News recently published an interesting article (https://seniorhousingnews.com/2019/07/30/5-months-no-electricity-what-in...) discussing less

SF Regional Board attempts to clarify vapor intrusion approach

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

The San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board recently issued a fact sheet summarizing changes to its approach to remediating environmental impacts and mitigating vapor intrusion (VI) at properties impacted with volatile organic compounds...

Tenancy in Common and Joint Tenancy Explained

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

How long – if ever – has it been since you pondered the difference between a “tenancy in common” and a “joint tenancy”? Same for us, until the wheels came off a family relationship and a lawsuit was filed in Wagenschein v. Ehlinger....

5 Key Takeaways: Advertising and Technology: Reaching Consumers in a Digital World

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

Barry M. Benjamin, partner in the New York office and chair of Kilpatrick Townsend’s Advertising and Marketing group, was honored to present at a recent Practicing Law Institute Bridge the Gap program discussing legal issues confronting advertisers...

VidCon 10: A Decade of Digital Video

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

If you were to take a quick snapshot of the digital video world in 2019, you’d see the pros and cons of peak TV, fewer legacy content companies (some with “new looks” as a result of M&A), and more places to consume content than ever before. Screens...

Ocean Transportation Intermediaries’ U.S. Regulatory Scheme: European Ocean Freight Forwarders And Freight Pricing

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

In the last year or so, it has become clearly evident to us that ocean carriers are treating European and other forwarders differently than how they deal with U.S. forwarders, creating a distinctly competitive disadvantage for U.S. ocean forwarders,...

The Protocol for the Legitimation of Existing Collective Bargaining Agreements (Mexico)

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

On July 31, 2019, the Ministry of Labor (the “ML”) published the Protocol for the Legitimation of existing Collective Bargaining Agreements (the “Protocol”). The legitimation process should take place before May 1, 2023. Such process is independent...

Blog: Secret sauce, sausages and cookie jars…

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

No, it’s not an episode of Top Chef, but it is about “cooking the books.” And those are just some of the ingredients and tools used by Brixmor Property Group, a publicly traded REIT, and four of its executives to do the cooking: manipulation of a...

Tele-Tuesday: Updates to the FCC’s Rural Health Care Program Focus on Telehealth Development

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

Coming on the heels of the FCC’s recently proposed $100 million Connected Care Program to fund telehealth-based connections between healthcare providers and patients, and continuing its recognition of the critical role telehealth plays in the...

Third Circuit’s EFH Decision Is Another Blow to Senior Secured Creditors Attempting to Enforce Subordination Agreements

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/19

Earlier this year, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued an opinion in BOKF NA v. Wilmington Sav. Fund Soc’y FSB (In re MPM Silicones LLC), Case No. 15-2280, 2019 WL 121003 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 4, 2019), which had...

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