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Law Firms and the Rise of Hospitality
Anthony Davies
The law firm office cannot remain unchanged, as if frozen in time set to some date prior to the onset of pandemic, when the terms and meaning have all changed. In fact, the office must now provide benefits or an experience the lawyers and staff cannot get at home.
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Enforcement of Obligations Imposed In SEQRA Findings Statements
Stewart E. Sterk
When, at the culmination of environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), a municipality resolves to require a developer to ameliorate environmental impacts, can anyone other than the municipality itself enforce the requirement?
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Challenges In Being a Pro Sports General Counsel
Phillip Bantz
Being a general counsel for a professional sports team is a coveted gig, but it's also a job with unique challenges, potential ethical minefields and scandals lurking around the front office, field, stadium and elsewhere.
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NYRE Staff
Encroachment By Party Wall Will Not Support a Notice of Pendency Questions of Fact Remain In Party Wall Dispute Easement Was Only for Access Seller's Failure to Provide Estoppel Certificates Excuses Purchaser from Performing Equitable Title Claim Upheld
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Bringing 5-Star Hospitality to Law Firms
Anthony Davies
The law firm office cannot remain unchanged, therefore, as if frozen in time set to some date prior to the onset of pandemic, when all the terms and meaning have all changed. In fact, the office must now provide benefits or an experience the lawyers and staff cannot get at home.
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With 'Great Resignation', Corporations Need to Prepare for the Great Investigation
Veeral Gosalia
Major crisis events, such as political uprisings or financial downturns, are typically followed by an increase in fraud in the business sector and heightened risk to corporate IP and other sensitive information. Anecdotally, this seems to be proving out again in the recent and ongoing fallout from the pandemic. Even before this Great Resignation movement, corporations across the globe were reporting increases in suspicious activity, data leakage, IP theft and other data risks stemming from departing employees and remote workers.
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Cybersecurity and Corporate Privacy Enforcement Is Focus of Feds
David Saunders
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Julian L. André
It started as a hushed rumor in the beltway, then became a known fact by those going to join the administration. And now we all know: The Biden administration has brought with it a renewed focus on data privacy and cybersecurity.
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'Never Trust, Always Verify': Zero Trust Security
Rebecca L. Warren
Recognizing the ever-increasing cyber threats to businesses, government entities, and individuals, the White House announced that Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must migrate toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Architecture by September 2024. Under Zero Trust, trust is the ultimate vulnerability of any system and, therefore, trust has to be eliminated from a business' cybersecurity approach.
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Enforcement of Obligations Imposed In SEQRA Findings Statements
Stewart E. Sterk
When, at the culmination of environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), a municipality resolves to require a developer to ameliorate environmental impacts, can anyone other than the municipality itself enforce the requirement?
Features
Using Section 365(n) to Minimize Loss of Use of IP In Licensor Bankruptcy
By Richard Assmus, Matthew Wargin, Monique Mulcare
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Danielle Corn
This article provides an overview of Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code, a key provision within the Code that allows a debtor to assume, assume and assign, or reject certain executory contracts and unexpired leases.
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