Most sampling disputes are settled, but today there are enough legal guidelines to constructively analyze potential or actual sampling claims. This article examines several 2026 court decisions involving music sampling disputes.
A recent First Department case explores the breadth of the Uniform Heirs Property Act (RPAPL 993) which significantly modifies the partition process for property determined to be “heirs property.”
It is one of the more common questions a trademark practitioner fields at the start of a brand launch: “We found the name we want to use, but somebody else is already using it — and they never registered it. Are we blocked?” Surprisingly, the answer is oftentimes “not necessarily.”
Most attorney business plans fail before they’re written. They fail in the design of the exercise: a blank template, a submission deadline, and an instruction to describe goals for the coming year. Nine months later, the plan is a forgotten file on a shared drive, and marketing is drafting the same template for next year’s cycle. AEIOU (Audit, Embed Experience, Act Intentionally, Originate, Utilize) is a five-part alternative built around that sequencing. It replaces the blank page with five decisions an attorney can make in a single working session.
Why advanced AI will change legal practice without making lawyers obsolete.The future value of lawyers will come less from generating first drafts and more from knowing how to choose, feed, test and deploy professional systems in a way that serves the client’s strategy.
The legal industry is going through the same leadership reckoning playing out across the Fortune 1000. The pioneers are already on the far side of the river. The settlers are crossing. And the stragglers are still deciding whether to go. Which camp are you in? And more importantly, who are you learning from right now?
Part One of a Two-Part ArticleThis is the first installment in a two-part series examining the implications of using generative artificial intelligence in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications. In this part, we address privilege and discovery risks that could arise when GAI tools are used in the patent-drafting process, and we identify targeted discovery strategies that patent litigators should consider when challenging patents that may have been drafted with GAI assistance.
Two recent cases raised a recurring real property issue: When can a party burdened by a restrictive covenant obtain judicial removal of the covenant pursuant to RPAPL 1951? The cases shed modest light on this muddy issue.
It’s been an active season for the federal appeals courts on the copyright law front. This article summarizes three of these recent circuit court decisions.
AI-assisted discovery isn’t displacing relationships, referrals or reputation. What it is doing is becoming the context in which all of those things get their first airing. Increasingly, the question a prospective client asks an AI tool is the question your reputation has to answer before you ever enter the room.
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