Transactional attorneys involved in negotiating commercial leases, construction contracts, or any contract in which one party requires the other party to provide insurance against personal injury or property damage should have a good understanding of the new "additional insured" form endorsement to a Commercial General Liability (CGL) insurance policy.
- July 01, 2016Jason L. Shaw
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.
July 01, 2016Sharon KasachkoffFederal Circuit Remands PTAB Decision Due to Claim Construction Change
Supreme Court Restricts Challenges to PTAB's Institution Decisions and Upholds Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard in IPR ProceedingsJuly 01, 2016Jeffrey S. Ginsberg and David CooperbergHere'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.
July 01, 2016Alvin TedjamuliaEven 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.
July 01, 2016Robert M. JasonA 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.
July 01, 2016Joel A. RoseOn 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.
July 01, 2016Ricci DipshanRecently, 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?
July 01, 2016David KupetzA 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.
July 01, 2016Zoe Tillman and C. Ryan BarberThe 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.
July 01, 2016Matthew Siegal and Mord M. Lewis

