A timely and properly drafted “pre-negotiation agreement” should ensure that all discussions or draft agreements exchanged between the parties are neither enforceable prior to final execution of a settlement agreement nor admissible in any court proceeding.
Generative AI is not an extinction-level event for patent prosecutors. It’s a force multiplier — an amplifier of legal analysis, not a replacement for it. If anything, it will allow practitioners to spend more time doing what clients value the most.
The written information security plan (WISP) is not just another compliance document, it's a practical roadmap that turns abstract data protection duties into concrete business practices.
The difference between technology investments that succeed and those that fail may have less to do with the tools themselves than the operational foundation beneath them.
The firms investing in administrative strategy — and in the people who embody it — continue to be the ones turning innovation into true competitive advantage.
In 2019, the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act/RPAPL §993 (the UPHPA) reshaped the rights of co-owners of inherited property in New York, replacing the traditional, sale-favoring partition system with a multi-layered process designed to limit the right to seek partition and to prioritize family ownership. The Second Department’s sweeping decision confirms that the partition landscape has drastically changed.
In a decision of first impression, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois imposed sanctions on a debtor’s counsel and his law firm for filing a brief that included fabricated citations to case law and nonexistent quotations that were generated by AI.
Can a sale that does not actually expose the to-be-patented invention to the public destroy the novelty of that invention? The answer to this question, which is often somewhat surprising to inventors and business owners, is “yes” — there are certain circumstances in which even a nonpublic, secret sale can trigger the novelty bar.
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission decision to halt substantive review of public company requests to exclude certain shareholder proposals has investor groups concerned their voices will be diminished in U.S. corporate governance.
This article surveys the emerging regulatory and legal AI landscape and consider steps the hospitality industry stakeholders can take to safeguard against potential exposure as they consider adopting AI tools to drive improved performance.
