Digital assets have created a jurisdictional tug of war between the SEC and the CFTC over whether cryptocurrencies should be regulated as commodities or securities. Also tugging on that rope sit those who say cryptocurrencies are neither, and need new bespoke rules.
Mortgagee's Action to Vacate Tax Sale Should Not Have Been Dismissed Even Though Redemption Period Had Expired Landowner Has Right of Access Across State Lands Part Performance Exception to Statute of Frauds Inapplicable Emails Insufficient to Satisfy Statute of Frauds Statute of Limitations Does Not Bar Claim to Remove Cloud on Title Purchase Option Not Assignable Buyer Recovers Down Payment When Seller Failed to Deliver Certificate of Occupancy Nassau County's Recording Fees Held Excessive and Improper Section 265-a Authorizes Rescission of Termination Agreement Prescriptive Easement Claim Fails for Failure to Establish Hostile Use
Proxies in voting and support agreements, secured debt instruments, and other corporate documents should be drafted in a manner that fully reflects the intended scope of the parties' proxy relationship.
Tenant's Failure to Restore Premises At End of Lease Constitutes Breach Fraud Exception to Four-Year Lookback Period Inapplicable Guaranty Clause Did Not Bind Tenant's Principal
For over a decade, starting when the first millennials graduated law school, efforts to seamlessly integrate — or, perhaps in some cases, strong-arm — new hires into the law firm business model have been a source of focus; and, for many, consternation. Distinct contrasts in ways of working, personal motivators and prevailing attitudes have left many leaders frustrated and disillusioned.
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
Unlike burnout or "quiet quitting," which arguably stemmed from mostly short-term dynamics, observers point to a collision of current and long-term trends, such as post-pandemic work and generational shifts, that have led lawyers today to be less committed to or fulfilled in the profession as they were a decade ago.
Since the 1980s, the country has been through numerous recessions and real estate crashes. Whenever these downturns or crashes occur, the distressed side of the industry, which is usually dormant until the crash occurs, rises to the challenge and mobilizes its resources to acquire, renovate, release, and sell these foreclosed and vacant properties.
Messaging company Slack Technologies scored a unanimous victory in the U.S. Supreme Court last month, which held that an investor suing over a company stock offering must show he held "registered" securities in the company.
Federal Circuit Examines the Analogous Art Test Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB's Finding of Prior Invention
