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<b><i>Legal Tech: Case Study</b></i> Jackson Walker Forges Ahead in an Ambitious Quest to Permanently Replace the Paper File Image

<b><i>Legal Tech: Case Study</b></i> Jackson Walker Forges Ahead in an Ambitious Quest to Permanently Replace the Paper File

Sharon Kasachkoff

It was just five years ago when our managing partner, Wade Cooper, shared his long-term vision for Jackson Walker's file management strategy. He challenged us to stop talking about going paperless and actually do something about it.

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IP News

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg & David Cooperberg

Federal Circuit Remands PTAB Decision Due to Claim Construction Change <br>Supreme Court Restricts Challenges to PTAB's Institution Decisions and Upholds Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard in IPR Proceedings

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What Do Law Firms Need to Know About Cloud Cybersecurity? Image

What Do Law Firms Need to Know About Cloud Cybersecurity?

Alvin Tedjamulia

Here's the premise: The cloud is a fundamental technology solution option that truly solves all kinds of law firm business and legal IT challenges including innovation, security, governance, global availability, etc. Modern law firms want the efficiency, the security and the global access of the cloud, while satisfying the security demands of their clients.

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Fundamental Issues in U.S. Taxation of Foreign Entertainers and Athletes Image

Fundamental Issues in U.S. Taxation of Foreign Entertainers and Athletes

Robert M. Jason

Even if a foreign athlete or entertainer has spent "too many" days in the United States and satisfies the "substantial presence test" (i.e., the individual's weighted sum of days over a three-year period is at least 183 days), there are two important ways in which the individual might nevertheless be treated as a nonresident, rather than a resident, alien.

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Admitting New Partners and Classes of Partners As the Demand for Legal Services Continues to Lag Image

Admitting New Partners and Classes of Partners As the Demand for Legal Services Continues to Lag

Joel A. Rose

A new survey of law firm leaders reveals that partners at a majority of the firms don't have enough work, and that demand for legal services is lagging behind pre-recession levels. Yet, despite this gloomy assessment, law firm leaders report that their partners are resistant to change.

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European Data Protection Supervisor Suggests Path After Parliament Dismisses Privacy Shield Draft Image

European Data Protection Supervisor Suggests Path After Parliament Dismisses Privacy Shield Draft

Ricci Dipshan

On May 26, coming less than two months after the Article 29 Working Party rebuke of the Privacy Shield, the EU parliament voted 501 to 119 on a resolution calling for negotiations on the agreement to continue. Its criticisms of the text echoed that of the Working Party, namely the Privacy Shield's insufficiency in dealing with U.S. mass surveillance, protecting EU individual data rights and protections, and effectively enforcing its regulations.

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Lender Beware: Ignore Suspicious Activity at Your Own Peril Image

Lender Beware: Ignore Suspicious Activity at Your Own Peril

David Kupetz

Recently, the Seventh Circuit held that a lender who should have discovered that its borrower lacked authority to pledge assets is not protected by a good-faith defense to a fraudulent transfer action. Without this defense, the lender lost its security. Should the priority of the lender's claim should be further reduced through equitable subordination?

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DC Circuit Upholds FCC Net Neutrality Rules Image

DC Circuit Upholds FCC Net Neutrality Rules

Zoe Tillman & C. Ryan Barber

A federal appeals court in Washington on June 14 upheld expansive federal regulations that require broadband internet providers to treat Internet traffic equally regardless of its source.

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Federal Circuit Applies a Reasonableness Standard to the Knowledge of Infringement Prong Image

Federal Circuit Applies a Reasonableness Standard to the Knowledge of Infringement Prong

Matthew Siegal & Mord M. Lewis

The Federal Circuit decision in Medtronic highlights the tension faced by alleged patent infringers, who must balance invalidity issues where a broad construction is desirable, against non-infringement issues, where narrow constructions are desired.

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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Page and Plant's Win in 'Stairway to Heaven' Case Seen as Bolstering Songwriters' Creative Rights Image

<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Page and Plant's Win in 'Stairway to Heaven' Case Seen as Bolstering Songwriters' Creative Rights

Amanda Bronstad

June 23's verdict for Led Zeppelin in the copyright trial over the 1971 hit song 'Stairway to Heaven' reaffirms the creative rights of songwriters while demonstrating the difficulties in pursuing infringement over sheet music, according to legal experts following the case.

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