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Bitcoin NFTs: Making the Case to Be Sole Digital Asset Protocol
NFTs are unique identifiers stored on a blockchain which represent ownership of a particular asset in the digital or physical world. They are typically created and transferred on a smart contract platform such as Ethereum or Solana. However, NFTs have recently come to the Bitcoin blockchain, which is an exciting development for several reasons.
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Legal Travel Is Back: Post-Pandemic Tips for Lawyers Traveling for Trials
Many courts across the country have resumed in-person trial operations. Law firms now face new challenges when it comes to planning for out-of-town trials, as the return to in-person proceedings requires coordinating travel logistics such as airfare, hotel reservations and technological needs.
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The Cost of Failing to Collaborate On Cybersecurity
Data security discussed at the C-Suite level usually involves CIOs, CISOs, CCOs, and often the company board. However, with an increasing volume of cybersecurity threats and the rising cost associated with each breach, collaboration between cybersecurity leadership and in-house counsel has never been more important.
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Securing License for Internet Artificial Intelligence
The licensing of internet AI intellectual property is stymied because legal difficulties such as the proper assessment of the jurisdiction for the licensing agreement and the proper identification of the parties for the licensing agreement. However, the primary issue is that normally the licensor is a computer program, hence not a legal person.
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Legal Tech: How Linguistics Can Help With Modern E-discovery
Perhaps the effort to get lawyers comfortable with emerging AI technologies needs to start with the fact that they use models constructed by another group of professionals with a different type of mastery of language — linguists.
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Three Takeaways from 'Casey v. Whitehouse Estates' Rent Regulation Decision
On March 16, 2023, the Court of Appeals decided Casey v. Whitehouse Estates, Inc., the first Court of Appeals ruling to address rent regulation since its landmark decision in Matter of Regina Metro. Co., LLC v. New York State Div. of Hous. & Community Renewal, the Court of Appeals unanimously reversed the First Department's finding that the landlord's purported fraud mandated use of DHCR's so-called default rent formula.
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Wrongful Eviction Claim Raises Questions of Fact Yellowstone Injunction Cure Period
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Mapping Your Content for Potential Clients' Planning Stage
At the "unawareness" stage of the buyer's journey, potential clients may not have (or don't know they have) a legal problem that requires a lawyer. They may not be "on the road." Yet it's important to consider prospects at this stage in your content planning, in part because clients can go from "not really looking" to "considering options" very quickly when the need for legal services arises.
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