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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.

Delaware recently became the sixth state to enact the Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Act, with minor modifications (the Delaware Act). This two-part article describes the innovations, certainty and paradigm provided by the Uniform Act and Delaware’s revisions to the Uniform Act. Part One includes background regarding assignments for the benefit of creditors, including historical shortcomings that the Uniform Act is intended to address.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly embedding itself into legal workflows, but much of the conversation treats all use cases as if they carry the same level of risk, even if they do not. The more useful question is not whether AI works, but where it can be safely applied and where it cannot.

The legal industry continues to treat business development as though it is primarily an attorney behavior issue. It is not. The firm absolutely has the expertise, but what it lacks is retrieval speed and accuracy.

The next real divide in the legal market is unlikely to be intelligence. The divide will be between institutions that can reliably retrieve and deploy what they already know and those that cannot. The firms that win will be the ones that can surface the right knowledge, in the right hands, before anyone else does.

In a closely followed venue dispute, the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey recently held that venue in the District was proper in the Chapter 11 cases of Multi-Color Corporation and its affiliates. The decision is significant because it offers an analytical framework for determining a debtor’s “principal assets” under section 1408 of the Bankruptcy Code.