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Law Firms Are Using Clawback Provisions to Stop Lateral Departures

Jessie Yount

As law firms face mounting pressure from the talent wars, many are attaching strings to their partnership agreements in order to protect their partnerships and forestall lateral departures in a high-demand market.

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Second Circuit 'Connolly' Ruling Shows Limits of Mail and Wire Fraud Statutes Image

Second Circuit 'Connolly' Ruling Shows Limits of Mail and Wire Fraud Statutes

Elkan Abramowitz & Jonathan Sack

The Connolly decision draws attention to the limits of the mail/wire fraud statutes — laws that are quite expansive but can also be stretched too far when applied to conduct in financial markets, especially markets tied to opaque rules and practices.

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7 Concerns for Commercial Real Estate Investors In a Volatile Market Image

7 Concerns for Commercial Real Estate Investors In a Volatile Market

Joseph J. Ori

It appears that the CRE industry is entering a period of high volatility with the Fed promising to raise interest rates, soaring inflation, the war in…

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Players on the Move

ELF Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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SEC Proposed Rules Include Disclosure of Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Strategy

Greg Andrews

Cybersecurity compliance, already an anxiety-inducing topic for many in-house counsel, is about to get even trickier. The SEC rolled out a host of proposed new cybersecurity rules for public companies.

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Wrestling With the Meaning of 'Ordinary' Under the Bankruptcy Code

Andrew C. Kassner & Joseph N. Argentina Jr.

The Bankruptcy Code protects regular, ordinary commercial transactions between distressed companies and vendors willing to continue the relationship. But what is ordinary?

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Comic Legends' Estates Say Pandora Streamed Routines Without License Image

Comic Legends' Estates Say Pandora Streamed Routines Without License

Thomas Kjellberg & Robert W. Clarida

In dual lawsuits, the estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin accuse Pandora Media of willfully infringing the legendary comedians' registered copyrights in their "spoken word compositions" — their standup routines — by streaming the sound recordings that embody those routines without a license to use these works.

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What Can the Legal Industry Learn from Baseball's Labor Dispute?

Dan Packel

Major League Baseball just resolved a contentious dispute between owners and the players union over revenue; both parties had been at odds about how to split up the pie. The challenge of splitting up the pie in law firms is going to become an increasing issue in coming years and perhaps even later in 2022 — particularly if the pie doesn't keep growing.

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While Associate Salaries Rise to Fight Talent War, Counsel Are Asking, 'Where's Mine?' Image

While Associate Salaries Rise to Fight Talent War, Counsel Are Asking, 'Where's Mine?'

Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

Uncertainty at most firms has led some Big Law counsel to become unhappy or disgruntled. They may be working the same long hours as their firms' associates, but, in some cases, they're now making less than lawyers with less experience. As a result, many counsel have been reaching out to recruiters.

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Inside Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Schemes

Jonathan Bick

Cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes (CPDs) are becoming increasingly prevalent. As in the case of traditional "pump and dump" schemes, CPDs lead to short-term trading perturbations — exaggerated increases and/or decreases in prices, volume, or volatility.

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