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The Slack Explosion: Convenient Yet Complicated  Image

The Slack Explosion: Convenient Yet Complicated 

Elizabeth Pollock-King

Part One of a Two-Part Series The informality of chat culture not only makes chat data harder to search, it also results in huge volumes of a new kind of data that must be processed in unique ways before it can be reviewed.

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Attorneys Forecast Legal Challenges In NFTs

Cedra Mayfield

As nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, continue to grow in popularity through cryptocurrency purchase, sale and trade online, opportunities for entertainment attorneys in the emerging industry also are booming. For this article, attorneys shared how they're grabbing hold of NFT-related work and the challenges they foresee.

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Fifth Circuit Ruling Gives Commercial Lessees Likely Protection In Bankruptcy Court Free and Clear Asset Sales Image

Fifth Circuit Ruling Gives Commercial Lessees Likely Protection In Bankruptcy Court Free and Clear Asset Sales

Michael L. Cook

The Fifth Circuit signaled that it would not approve in later cases a bankruptcy court asset sale of real property that summarily cuts off the rights of the debtor's lessees.

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Opportunities, Risks and Strategies In the Metaverse Image

Opportunities, Risks and Strategies In the Metaverse

Brandon Leahy and Chloe Delehanty 

While it is still unknown how the metaverse will take shape lawyers advising brands should familiarize themselves with the opportunities it presents, the risks involved, and strategies to consider for enhancing and protecting a client's brand.

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Keeping Track of Legal Claims from Fatal Shooting on 'Rust' Film Set Image

Keeping Track of Legal Claims from Fatal Shooting on 'Rust' Film Set

Marianna Wharry

Actor Alec Baldwin has detailed his account of the October 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Rust film production set in an arbitration demand in which he seeks indemnification.

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How NCAA Athletes and Brands Can Avoid Big Mistakes In NIL Influencer Agreements Image

How NCAA Athletes and Brands Can Avoid Big Mistakes In NIL Influencer Agreements

Nicole Demas, L. Andrew Tseng & Sean P. McConnell

The biggest event of the year in college sports just concluded as national champions were crowned in men's and women's basketball, and hundreds of thousands of college athletes are entering the influencer marketplace for the first time. College athletes now find themselves attractive candidates in the fast growing influencer marketing arena. With the FTC Commissioner taking a closer look at the use of influencers for marketing, student athletes and brands should take care when entering into the influencer marketing arena.

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Fifth Circuit Resolves 'Clash' Between FERC and Bankruptcy Courts Image

Fifth Circuit Resolves 'Clash' Between FERC and Bankruptcy Courts

Douglas S. Mintz & Michael L. Cook

A Chapter 11 debtor's "rejection [(under Code §365(a)] of a filed-rate [natural gas] contract … relieve[d] it of the obligation to continue performance absent the approval of FERC [(the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission]," held the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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The Culture Code for Law Firms Image

The Culture Code for Law Firms

Marci Taylor

Many firms have made a valiant attempt to maintain firm culture in the brave new world in which we find ourselves. Culture is not something that is pre-destined or accidental. Rather, it is something that exists and evolves in organizations where particular skill sets are present and cultivated.

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Investing In Real Estate In the Metaverse: What You Need to Know Image

Investing In Real Estate In the Metaverse: What You Need to Know

Melea VanOstrand

For law firms, real estate companies and corporations, buying property in the metaverse so early on could go one of two ways: giving them a crucial advantage in an increasingly digital economy, or becoming a decision they'll regret if the concept fails to take off.

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The FTC Gets Into the College Athlete NIL Game Image

The FTC Gets Into the College Athlete NIL Game

Nicole Demas, L. Andrew Tseng & Sean P. McConnell

As national champions are crowned in men's and women's basketball, hundreds of thousands of college athletes are entering the influencer marketplace for the first time and now find themselves attractive candidates in the fast growing influencer marketing arena. With influencer marketing potentially providing a 5x return on investment, many brands are eager to get into the industry, but it doesn't come without risks as the FTC Commissioner is taking a closer look at the use of influencers for marketing.

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