Our committee focuses on issues arising from litigation relating to financial and business relationships, including banking, lender liability and credit disputes, securities and consumer matters, trade secret and confidentiality agreements, Uniform Commercial Code arrangements, real estate transactions, bankruptcy, and general commercial dealings.

The new file on your desk is an action to enforce a guaranty. You know that the case is important to your client because of the large amount at issue, but cannot recall what (if anything) you may have learned about a guaranty in law school. Before you read the file and log on to your computer to do research, there are 12 things to know about guaranties.

Have you ever wondered whether that email that your client, an individual, sent to you from his workplace computer is privileged? Have you ever thought about moving to compel the production of emails sent by a party opponent from his workplace computer to his attorney, with the hope of discovering a treasure trove of information? If so, then read more.