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A New York Supreme Court judge has thrown out a suit by Sony Music Entertainment against a competitor record company and one of the competitor's top executives, who allegedly breached a $3 million employment contract with Sony.
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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a securities suit brought by several investing financial institutions against Paramount Pictures.
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Fashion and apparel goods are an important source of branding opportunities for artists and celebrities. One of the most vexing economic issues in fashion and apparel licensing deals is the task of allocating the long-term value of a branded product launch.
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Many articles have been written about the enforcement of non-compete agreements in franchise cases. The "textbook" law is clear, and we address that law in this article. However, the message that we in the franchise bar have been sending our clients about the law may not be so clear: Nobody really "wins" these cases ' except the lawyers who take them to court.
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A recent decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in <i>405341 Ontario Limited v. Midas Canada Inc.</i>, calls into question the some common practices of franchisors in Canada.
To stay competitive in the rapidly evolving legal industry, more and more firms are turning to technology to dramatically cut costs and time associated with traditionally human tasks. Couple the need for better, more efficient technology with the recession, and the need for law firms to implement e-discovery software platforms for more efficient business becomes crucial.
With recent economic issues, growing complexity of electronic discovery and continuing incline of data volumes, project management has become an indispensable tool. Terms like "workflow" or "stakeholders" are being spoken by litigation support professionals who are utilizing project management principals as a long sought solution to tame the electronic discovery "monster."
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IT had never really been viewed as a profit center, only as necessary overhead. In the many years that IT has been fulfilling that role, we've seen an explosion of software and hardware choices to meet all of our daily needs. Now, you name the need and chances are good that there is an application out there to meet that need. With this comes a lot of investment: research, trial periods for testing, hardware, software, added personnel, training and consultants to name just a few.
While legal departments establish hold policies and procedures, IT managers must support and streamline the implementation of the hold process. This article discusses some considerations for litigation hold teams.
A family court order requiring a divorce litigant to pay the law firm Budd Larner $50,000 in legal fees, even though he had a malpractice case pending against the firm, has been upheld on appeal.
