It is a new year. We have a new President and Congress who will present us with challenges to meet and opportunities to assess. We are heading in a direction where mutual sacrifice is in and greed is out. Despite the fact that personal responsibility also is in, I suspect that lawsuits and bankruptcy filings will not be out. Accordingly, the next several months will be anything but dull. My subsequent posts will focus on positive uses for the law such as leasing, asset purc