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Let's Do Lunch!
Is the lunch meeting still a thing? Is it a lost art? A lost opportunity?
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Beyond Language: How Multimodal AI Sees the Bigger Picture
The possibilities for patenting innovative applications of multimodal models across industries are endless.
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Landmines In Bankruptcy Appellate Practice, Part III
When courts have made important exceptions in the past year, they have either added a gloss on the Judicial Code, corrected lawyers' errors, filled in statutory gaps, or clarified the relevant statutory language.
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Guarantor Liability for Post-Window-Period Rent
In a case of first impression, the Appellate Division, First Department recently addressed a split in the decisions of the lower courts as to the scope of the New York City Guaranty Law.
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All the News That's Fit to Pinch: 'NYT v. OpenAI'
The emerging cases by authors and copyright owners challenging various generative AI programs for using copyrighted materials are certain to create new troubles for the courts being asked to apply the fair use doctrine to this important new technology.
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Content-Licensing Payment Dispute Involves Whether Fiduciary Relationship Was Created
A recent New York federal court decision in a dispute between a broker that sublicenses program content and a broadcaster that sublicensed content from the broker considered the interaction of contract language and extra-contractual elements of the parties' relationship to determine whether a fiduciary relationship existed.
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All the News That's Fit to Pinch
The emerging cases by authors and copyright owners challenging various generative AI programs for using copyrighted materials are certain to create new troubles for the courts being asked to apply the fair use doctrine to this important new technology.

The Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.
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How AI Has Affected PR
When we consider how the use of AI affects legal PR and communications, we have to look at it as an industrywide global phenomenon. A recent online conference provided an overview of the latest AI trends in public relations, and specifically, the impact of AI on communications. Here are some of the key points and takeaways from several of the speakers, who provided current best practices, tips, concerns and case studies.
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AI and Hospitality: Transforming Law Firm Workplaces for the Future
As the world ushers in a new era post-pandemic of hybrid operations, it's really no surprise that workplace experience is a top, strategic lever law firm leaders are driving in conjunction with re-envisioning the space their professionals are occupying.
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