Insights: 2026
2026 123 articles
- Title insurance, and what the exceptions mean
- Title endorsements worth requesting
- Making a title insurance claim
- Curing title defects
- Reading a title commitment
- Subpoenas to non-parties
- Diligence on agents and intermediaries
- Third-party beneficiaries
- The business judgment rule, and how claims get past it
- Text messages as evidence
- Online terms and enforceability
- Termination rights and break fees
- Tenant improvement allowances and construction in leases
- Temporary restraining orders
- Tax increment financing
- Deal structure and tax
- Target, subject or witness
- Target letters and what to do about them
- Regulatory takings
- Regulatory takings and inverse condemnation
- Tag-along rights
- Suspicious activity reporting
- Survival periods, baskets and caps
- Surety bonds and insurance compared
- Contractor default and completion
- Supply chain disruption
- Supply agreements
- Citing new authority
- Stays pending appeal and supersedeas bonds
- Summary judgment
- Deciding whether to move for summary judgment
- What evidence counts at summary judgment
- Successorship
- Who owns the loan
- Buying a business with a regulatory history
- Successor liability
- Subrogation and contribution
- Shareholder loans and subordination
- Subordination and intercreditor arrangements
- Subdivision and platting
- Structured and instalment settlements
- Strikes, lockouts and picketing
- Stormwater regulation
- When a limitation period starts
- Limitations periods, and when the clock starts
- The statute of frauds
- Standing
- Standing, ripeness and mootness
- Standards of review: the concept that decides appeals
- Abuse of discretion review
- Spoliation of evidence
- Specific performance
- Specific performance in merger and purchase agreements
- Special masters and discovery referees
- Special litigation committees
- Special land use approvals
- Special event permitting
- Special assessments
- Suing a foreign state or its entities
- State sovereign immunity and the officer suit
- Software and service agreements
- Official social media accounts
- Social media in litigation
- Snow and ice on commercial property
- Subordination, non-disturbance and attornment
- Site selection legal diligence
- Site plan review
- Enforcing conditions of approval
- Site condominiums and alternatives to platting
- Single purpose entities and separateness
- Single-member LLCs
- Sign ordinances after content neutrality
- Side letters and most favoured nation provisions
- Regulating short-term rentals
- Shareholder proposals
- Meetings, quorum and written consents
- Litigating an inspection demand
- Severance as a benefit plan
- Negotiating a severance agreement
- Severance agreements: what the release actually buys
- When cases settle, and why
- Settlement agreements: the clauses that cause the next dispute
- Drafting a settlement agreement
- Serving a foreign defendant
- Service of process
- Holding company and series structures
- How organisations are sentenced
- Securities fraud: the elements
- Raising capital privately
- Remedies in civil rights litigation
- Section 1983 claims against public officials
- Secondary sales of private company shares
- Second Amendment analysis
- When agents arrive with a search warrant
- Special-purpose boards
- The scheduling order
- Executive compensation governance
- Whistleblower protections for public company employees
- Sandbagging and anti-sandbagging clauses
- Operating a sanctions screening programme
- Sanctions for frivolous filings
- Sanctions for discovery abuse
- Sale-leaseback transactions
- Notice and comment rulemaking
- Rollover equity
- Public and private roads
- Land use and religious institutions
- Recording public officials
- Right of publicity
- Rights of first refusal and first offer
- Rezoning and spot zoning
- Revenue sharing and cooperative development
- Retroactive effect of a decision
- Monitoring for retaliation after a complaint
- Retaliation: the claim that outlives the original one
- Proving and defending retaliation claims
- Restrictive covenants and CC&Rs
- Non-competes given by sellers
- What makes a restrictive covenant enforceable
- Financial restatements
- Responsible bidder determinations
- Responding to suspected employee theft
- What to do when the company is sued
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