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Co-ops and Condominiums
Amendment of Bylaws Relieves Condominiums of Obligation to Use Association for Repair Services
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Crypto Collapse Gives View of 'Property' Values In the Metaverse
Before CRE owners and operators create that experiential virtual shopping mall or virtual office on a metaverse platform for their tenants, they need to make sure the tenants won't decide that the virtual experience is so good that they no longer have any use for the built portfolio.
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Federal Circuit: Prosecution Laches Applies to Patent Claiming 1987 Priority Date Federal Circuit: Appellate Court Lacks Jurisdiction Over Interlocutory Appeal of Protective Order Dispute
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ESG 'Greenwashing' Litigation On the Rise
Increased attention paid to companies' public promotion of their environmental and sustainability programs is likely to continue in 2023, with further developments in regulation and litigation pertaining to "greenwashing" — a marketing practice which involves unsubstantiated or exaggerated claims about the environmentally friendly or socially-responsible attributes of an organization's products or services.
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How to Cut Through the Content Marketing Noise
Content marketing is not dead. But it has evolved — and it's more challenging than ever to "win" at content marketing.
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Bankruptcy Veterans See Surge In Corporate Filings
Corporate bankruptcies have been a hot topic lately, with several businesses or their parent companies declaring bankruptcy, announcing they plan to do so or saying they may to do so soon. Two veteran bankruptcy attorneys in Georgia give their take on this and other bankruptcy topics.
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Podcast: Crypto's Rocky IP Future
Listen in on a post-webinar chat on "The Crypto Landscape: Post-FTX," with Blockchain Legal LLP partner Aaron Krowne and counsel Ali Derie, along with veteran entertainment industry lawyer Eric S. Goldman, about cryptocurrency's rocky recent past (and present) as well as its still-promising, if uncertain, future.
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AI Regulation in the U.S.: What's Coming, and What Companies Need to Do In 2023
Part One of a Two-Part Article Despite the steady growth of global AI adoption, there is no comprehensive federal legislation on AI in the United States. Instead, the U.S. has a patchwork of various current and proposed AI regulatory frameworks. It is critical for organizations looking to harness this novel technology to understand these frameworks and to prepare to operate in compliance with them.
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Best Practices in Second Request Document Review: How to Execute An E-discovery-Based Plan
Part 2 of a Two-Part Article Part 1 of this article discussed approaches to managing second requests using core project management principles that allow you to control the timeliness, cost, and quality of your organization's response. This follow-up looks at the pragmatics of strategizing and executing a successful plan.
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The Increasing Challenges of Verification on Social Media
The recent flurry of online impersonators, ranging from accounts posing as President Joe Biden to the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, exposes the challenges of social media platforms' verification and authentication processes. These events show that monitoring and policing trademark infringements and right of publicity violations can be increasingly difficult in the social media context.
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