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Commercial Law

  • Dividing retirement assets in equitable distribution is well known among matrimonial practitioners as one of the most confounding, and potentially complex, areas of our practice. Do you need outside counsel?

    April 28, 2012Laurence J. Cutler and Robert A. Epstein
  • Famous clients' net worth, income and the details of their investments are never publicly revealed. Custody is not disclosed. It is all kept private. How?

    April 28, 2012Lynne Strober, David S Carton and Michael J. Diamond
  • According to the press reports, the Florida-based company that bought the .xxx domain last year and reaped millions in registration fees from companies, universities, organizations and individuals seeking to protect their trademarks and names from being associated with pornography (with no intent of ever using the sites) has applied to own three more ' sex, .porn and .adult.

    April 27, 2012Douglas Wood
  • Appellate courts in both the United States and Australia recently addressed whether Google, Inc. violated the country's respective trademark laws through the use of third-party trademarks as keywords in Google's AdWords advertising program. Google suffered legal losses in both countries.

    April 27, 2012Catherine Malia Ting
  • Viacom International got a second shot at proving that Google's YouTube massively infringed its copyrights by hosting clips from shows like The Daily Show and Family Guy without its permission. And whether Viacom and its lawyers succeed or not, they've already managed to shape the developing case law over copyrighted content that users illegally upload to the Internet.

    April 27, 2012Nate Raymond and Mark Hamblett
  • Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.

    April 27, 2012ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
  • The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the statute of frauds barred a counterclaim alleging breach of an oral agency agreement by songwriter/performer Akon to pay the agency commissions and reimbursement of the musician's travel expenses.

    April 27, 2012Stan Soocher
  • Viacom International got a second shot at proving that Google's YouTube massively infringed its copyrights by hosting clips from shows like The Daily Show and Family Guy without its permission. And whether Viacom and its lawyers succeed or not, they've already managed to shape the developing case law over copyrighted content that users illegally upload to the Internet.

    April 27, 2012Nate Raymond and Mark Hamblett
  • Besides the many people in commercial sectors whose business model was decimated ' music sellers and travel agents, at the dawn of e-commerce, and, more recently, publishers of books and music ' sometimes that change can hurt any business and its people, and for no good reason.

    April 27, 2012Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
  • Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.

    April 26, 2012ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |