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Revisiting Allocation of Basis Issues

David E. Kahen & Elliot Pisem

The courts have taken varying approaches to determining the basis of stock that is received by an insurance policyholder in exchange for the policyholder's surrender of membership rights in a mutual insurance company, in a "demutualization" transaction. While this may seem to be a narrow and abstruse question, the approaches taken by the courts may have application in other areas of the tax law affecting analogous transactions.

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Catching Counterfeiters With Page Vault

Rob Holmes

As the CEO and founder of IPCybercrime, my team and I have developed a systematic approach to investigating the online sale of fake branded goods. We work with law firms and corporate counsel to build cases against the counterfeiters. In the last decade, we've assisted in shutting down hundreds of thousands of websites offering counterfeit goods for sale. In many cases, $100s of millions were at stake.

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Preparing for a Data Breach with Cyber Insurance

Collin Hite

Data breaches continue to escalate and garner national attention. The most recent news-making incident was the hack of electronic toy maker, VTech.

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Ins and Outs of Group Registration Of Photographs

Bruce Bellingham & Peter McCall

An important part of a professional photographer's life, and that of a photographer's attorney, is protecting the intellectual property produced by that photographer. Many photographers properly compile photographs from unrelated sources and register the photographs in an effort to protect their property rights in the images. Group registration of those images has enabled a much more efficient registration process, but does registration provide the statutory damage protections one might assume should be available?

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Standing to Assert Claims for Online Privacy Breaches

Shari Claire Lewis

Many believe that we are on the precipice of a deluge of litigation ' both individual and multiparty/class action ' concerning how an individual's data is handled and the remedy, if any, if that data is misused or wrongfully disclosed. A case recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court involves the intersection of the Internet and privacy laws and may affect the future of litigation against companies that operate on the Web as well as traditional brick-and-mortar businesses.

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What's New in the Law

Robert W. Ihne

True Lease Versus Security Interest

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111010001: An Article of Commerce?

Bryan Kohm & Stefan Szpajda

In <i>ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. ITC,</i> the Federal Circuit limited the ITC's jurisdiction over digital commerce. In a 2-1 decision, the panel held that the ITC lacks authority to regulate digital imports.

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New FASB/IASB Lease Accounting Rules to Be Issued Soon

Bill Bosco

The IASB and the FASB have completed decision-making meetings and the respective staffs are drafting the final rules, which will be signed and issued this month. The IASB and FASB will issue separate rules as they have chosen two different models for lessee accounting. They both have adopted the same lessor model with a few minor differences.

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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Phishing, Attacks Top Data Concerns of Law Firm CIOs

Alan Cohen

Detection and deflection: It may seem like an old boxing adage, but what it really stands for, as our ALM sibling The American Lawyer's 20th annual technology survey finds, is law firms' re-engineered approach to security.

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Data Analytics Is Low for Corporate Investigations

Chris DiMarco

Social media has become the dominant channel of communication for a spectrum of users ranging from individual bloggers to billion-dollar corporate conglomerates. However, a recent survey indicated that the use of data analytics on social media is lacking in corporate legal investigations, despite its potential.

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