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Government Looking Into Insider Trading By Tipping Block Trades
How the government might frame insider trading cases based on allegations of tipping before the execution of block trades in securities.
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Commentary: What the Music Industry Can Learn from Cable When It Comes to ISPs and Infringement
In the last two decades, the music industry and, more specifically, songwriters, producers and recording artists have been losing the value of their efforts to online piracy. Perhaps a business-to-business solution can be found between the music industry and cable providers.
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Why Subchapter V Is More Appealing Than Chapter 11 for Small Businesses
The Small Business Reorganization Act created a new pathway for small businesses to remain in control of running their businesses, which is the usual reason for choosing to seek relief under Chapter 11, while eliminating many of the reasons that typical Chapter 11 proceedings exhausted the patience, and wallets, of both debtors and creditors.
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Individual Liability and Criminalizing Cybersecurity Response
To date, cybersecurity has generally been viewed as an organizational responsibility, and data breaches similarly have been treated as organizational weaknesses or failures. Against this backdrop of organizational responsibility, the Department of Justice has brought a noteworthy criminal case against an individual for his personal response to a corporate data breach.
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Landlord & Tenant Law Case Update
COVID-19 Does Not Trigger Frustration of Purpose or Impossibility Defenses Tenant Entitled to Actual Damages for Landlord Breach, But Not to Suspension Payment COVID-19 Does Not Excuse Failure to Pay Rent
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Upcoming Event
30th Cutting Edge Entertainment Law Seminar. New Orleans, July 7-9, 2022
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Rising Expenses and M&A Slowdown Could Sink Profit Growth This Year
Stifling expenses and a slowdown in transactional work during the first quarter could sink profit growth for the rest of the year, according to a new analysis of legal industry performance.
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IP News
Federal Circuit: Agreement Between Patent Owner and Third Party Was Not Insulated from The On-Sale Bar
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The Slack Explosion: Convenient Yet Complicated, Part 2
Best Practices to Simplify Future E-discovery Part Two of a Two-Part Series Just as the legal industry had to scramble to figure out how to handle email and other electronic documents a couple decades ago, e-discovery practices must once again shift to account for the realities of business being conducted via chat and the massive amounts of new types of data that chat platforms generate.
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The Importance of ISO Certification for Law Firms
ISO certification is not just a critical way to ensure your firm's security; it's increasingly important for any firm that wants to maintain a competitive advantage in today's legal market.
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