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• Insurance For Green Building And Design

  The Cooperator's Erik D. Nevala-Lee reports in Green Building Insurance Practices on new insurance for building green and designing green. The principal focus:Professional errors and omission insurance for architects and engineers whose designs don't meet…

• Chicago Bar Association Presentation On Real Estate Loan Workouts and D'Oench, Duhme

  If you're looking for a great way to roll into Thanksgiving this year, forget preparing turkey and stuffing a day early! Instead, drop by the Chicago Bar Association where I'll be speaking about the FDIC's…

• BidForMaterials.com: Internet Website Where Contractors Can Request And Sort Electronic Bids For Construction Materials

  Internet site BidForMaterials.com is a place where contractors can electronically request bids from material suppliers, sort them, and pick which to buy from. Here's how it works:RegisterUpload and post your material listSuppliers respond with bidsPick…

• FDIC Closes Three More Banks Yesterday

  According to Credit Unions Online, The FDIC closed 3 banks yesterday (November 13, 2009):Pacific Coast National Bank in San Clemente, CaliforniaOrion Bank in Naples, FloridaCentury Bank, FSB in Sarasota, Florida Want news of FDIC bank…

• Pepsi Succeeds In Vacating $1.26 Billion Default Judgment

  A couple of weeks ago we talked about how Pepsi mishandled a Complaint suing the company for allegedly stealing trade secrets resulting in a $1.26 Billion default judgment. In Judge Scraps $1.26 Billion Judgment Against…

• FDIC Loans Sales: It's Good To Be A Holder In Due Course

  To paraphrase Mel Brooks: "It's good to be a holder in due course!" In the last bank insolvency post, we talked about how the buyers and assignees of loans from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation…

• U.S. Supreme Court Gets It Right All The Time?

  The late Justice Robert H. Jackson suggested that often, the justices don't:There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed.…

• I-35 Bridge Collapse Contractor Settles Lawsuits With State and Survivors

  The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune's Jim Foti reports in I-35 Bridge Firm Settles Suits on Friday's settlement between Progressive Contractors, Inc. (the "contractor") on one side and State of Minnesota and the disaster survivors on…

• Construction Checkup: The Legacy at Millennium Park

  YoChicago's Joseph Askins reports in Construction Checkup: Legacy at Millennium Park on construction progress at Mesa Development's Chicago residential condominium project known The Legacy at Millennium Park. I confess I'm biased. I worked on contracts…

• American Resort Development Assication Fall Conference In Washington, DC

  Starting this morning, I'm attending the Fall Conference of the American Resort Development Association ("ARDA") in Washington, D.C. ARDA is the principal trade association for the timeshare and fractional ownership industry. We'll be: Writing new…