The notion of client teams has been around for two decades. Now we are becoming more intentional about the diversity of teams for both business development and service delivery.
Women's initiatives have been delivering value for some time but still have not realized their potential. Networks that succeed in moving the agenda ahead may be the answer.
For the eleventh consecutive year, Altman Weil has conducted a Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Survey on issues of importance in managing corporate law departments.This article discusses selected results of the recent survey.
There has been much criticism of the new temporary maintenance awards (DRL ' 236B(5-a)) and their shortcomings. For the moment, we need to live with the statute in its current form. To that end, following is a user guide to the new statute.
DRL ' 170 was amended in 2010 to add "irretrievable breakdown" in subdivision 7, a "no-fault ground" for divorce. Many thought that the new ground would make it possible for one party to the marriage to unilaterally end it. Not so fast.
When emotional issues manifest themselves during the life of a divorce, keeping the case in line with the law and presenting the evidence properly become highly important.
The Ninth Circuit recently reversed a district court's adverse $6.7 million fraudulent transfer judgment against a corporate insider, a director of the debtor, in a remarkably sensible opinion.
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
Cloud computing may be here to stay, but is it truly safer than the solutions that it's outmoding? The Legal Cloud Computing Association (LCCA) thinks there's a path to greater security, publishing for law firms its first "Cloud Security Doctrine."
Copyright law has long struggled to keep pace with advances in technology, and the debate around the copyrightability of AI-assisted works is no exception. At issue is the human authorship requirement: the principle that a work must have a human author to be eligible for copyright protection. While the Copyright Office has previously cited this "bedrock requirement of copyright" to reject registrations, recent decisions have focused on the role of human authorship in the context of AI.
Federal Circuit: PTAB Did Not Err In Finding That It Retained Authority to Issue Final Written Decision After Deadline Passed
Federal Circuit: District Court Did Not Err In Finding That an Abbreviated New Drug Application Is Limited to the Uses Described Therein
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
