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Why Subchapter V Is More Appealing Than Chapter 11 for Small Businesses Image

Why Subchapter V Is More Appealing Than Chapter 11 for Small Businesses

By Stuart B. Newman & Steven H. Newman

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 Image

Individual Liability and Criminalizing Cybersecurity Response

Jonathan S. Sack & Christopher M. Hurley

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

Stewart E. Sterk

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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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

Andrew Maloney

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

Howard Shire & Stephanie Remy

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 

Elizabeth Pollock-King

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

Sue Pellegrino

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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Metaverse Raises Privacy and Cybersecurity Concerns

Oriana Alexander, Wail Jihadi & Bryan Parker

The Metaverse will be the next version of the Internet that provides an immersive virtual experience. For now, the extent to which Metaverse technology will be integrated into our physical world remains unknown. This raises new concerns about data privacy, cybersecurity, new cybercrimes and constitutional issues.

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E-Commerce Sellers Should Be Preemptive to Mitigate Effects of Account Suspensions for IP Infringement Image

E-Commerce Sellers Should Be Preemptive to Mitigate Effects of Account Suspensions for IP Infringement

Jonathan Bick

E-commerce channel providers' suspension of sellers' accounts associated with alleged intellectual property infringement is fast, and suspension remediation is time-consuming and costly. Consequently, e-commerce sellers should contemplate pre-emptive legal and business arrangements to ameliorate potential e-commerce account suspensions consequences.

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