Commercial insurance policyholders require nuanced approaches to protect their assets both before and after suffering a loss due to catastrophic weather. With loss severity and increased frequency of catastrophic events being a stark reality, businesses must take a closer look at all the ways they can safeguard their rights.
The Walt Disney Co.’s newly announced, three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI to bring more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars to Sora marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of intellectual property and generative AI. For rights holders, platforms, and brands, the deal illustrates an emerging blueprint for commercializing iconic IP in AI-native formats while attempting to manage legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.
Forward-looking firms have added a powerful tool to their strategic planning: the go-to-market (GTM) plan. For law firms, a GTM plan helps align lawyers, marketing and business development professionals, and firm leaders around clear objectives, research-informed opportunities and measurable outcomes.
After decades of relatively muted activity, the legal industry has witnessed three major law firm mergers in the space of a single month. So what is going on?
A New York City court ruled that landlords don’t have a process under the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law to serve certain commercial tenants with the 14-day rent demands needed to begin repossessing a property.
Mobile discovery has reached an inflection point. Courts spent 2024 handing out sanctions for two opposite failures: failing to preserve mobile data and collecting far too much of it. Litigants now face a genuine discovery double bind, including being punished for being careless and being punished again for being overly aggressive. That push-pull (collect more vs. collect less) is shaping the 2025 e-discovery landscape more than any technical development or new tool.
Constructive Eviction Defense Precludes Summary Judgment on Ejectment Claim
The decision reasserts important limits on the USPTO’s authority, particularly its reliance on unverified foreign-language translations, hypothetical assumptions about what businesses “might” offer in the future, and tenuous connections between a word and a service category.
Langston serves as a reminder that the expiration of a deadline in the Rules may not be the final word on the matter. While not often the case, there may be an equitable defense to an expired deadline.
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
