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New York Law Journal: Featured Columnists December 18, 2008

By David Badertscher, PLL

font size=1#13; pfont size=2If you are already an online subscriber to the New York Law Journal you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed./font/p#13; pa href=http://www.nylj.com target=_blankfont size=2http://www.nylj.com/font/afont size=2 /font/p#13; pfont size=2Subscription required for online access unless otherwise noted:/font/p#13; pa href=http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202426835880 target=_blankfont size=2Securities Regulation/font/abr/font size=2Thursday, December 18, 2008br/By Roberta S. Karmelbr/br/ Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and codirector of the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law, writes that one of the legacies of Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox and Director of the Division of Corporation Finance John White is their reform of the regulation of foreign private issuers. The SEC has adjusted its regulation of foreign issuers in response to globalization during turbulent times. This adjustment, she says, began in a political climate concerned about the migration of the capital markets from the United States to other jurisdictions, particularly London, and is ending in a political climate concerned about the undesirable systemic risks of globalization of the capital markets. /font/p!--commentsListSize 0--!-- December 18, 2008 --#13; pa href=http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202426835845 target=_blankfont size=2Mediation/font/abr/font size=2Thursday, December 18, 2008br/By Abby Tolchinsky and Ellie Wertheimbr/br/Abby Tolchinsky and Ellie Wertheim, partners at Family Mediation, write that in much the way practitioners have used mediation to defray clients' costs and relieve over-burdened court dockets, they recently have been expanding the use of collaborative practice for the same goals. According to the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals, the collaborative practice of law is, 'a way of practicing law whereby the lawyers for both of the parties to a family dispute agree to assist the parties in resolving conflict using cooperative strategies rather than adversarial techniques and litigation.'  /font/p#13; pfont size=2OUTSIDE COUNSEL:/font/p#13; pa href=http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202426835080 target=_blankfont size=2Discretionary Land-Use Approvals in a Down Market/font/abr/font size=2Thursday, December 18, 2008br/By Howard J. Goldman and Caroline G. Harrisbr/br/Howard J. Goldman and Caroline G. Harris, partners in the Law Offices of Howard Goldman, write that with the city's real estate market in the doldrums, there may be opportunities for owners, developers and investors to seek discretionary land-use approvals that, in a more active market, would be too costly or time-consuming. They advise that while discretionary approvals take longer to process and involve more risk than as-of-right approvals, the increase in the property value can be substantial./font/p#13; pfont size=2CORPORATE UPDATE:/font/p#13; pa href=http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202426835785 target=_blankfont size=2Taxation/font/abr/font size=2Thursday, December 18, 2008br/By Elliot Pisem and David E. Kahenbr/br/Elliot Pisem and David E. Kahen, members of Roberts amp; Holland, write that income earned under any 'nonqualified deferred compensation plan must be reported when it is no longer subject to a 'substantial risk of forfeiture,' even though not yet received, and is subject to a penalty tax and a penalty interest charge, unless the plan: requires that distributions may be made only at a pre-specified time or upon the occurrence of certain events, such as separation from service, disability, or a change of control of the employer; precludes the acceleration of payments under most circumstances; and requires that any 'deferral election' be made only at prescribed times.  /font/p/font

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