A sampling of daily headlines is apparently driven by law firms eager to attract lateral partners, to recruit young lawyers, and to please current partners. One wag also recently described this public bragging as a “sedative” to quiet troublesome partners. Does the profession want or even need this kind of publicity? The answer should be no.
An amendment to the New York Condominium Act introduces a mandatory pre-foreclosure notice that condominium boards must send defaulting unit owners before commencing a lien foreclosure action to recover unpaid common charges and assessments.
For decades, firms have invested in CRM systems with the expectation that better data and more attorney adoption would translate into better business development. In practice, that assumption has never fully held up. The question is no longer how to improve CRM adoption. It is whether the underlying model is fit for purpose.
Improper or non-conforming data rights markings can lead to objection or challenge by the U.S. government, and a failure to mark may lead to loss of certain rights in the underlying IP. Accordingly, this article provides a practical guide to data rights marking, especially for those individuals involved in, or responsible for, marking content delivered to the USG.
Trade crimes have emerged as a defining enforcement priority in white collar practice. For defense practitioners, the shift demands more than awareness; it requires retooling case strategies, developing technical fluency in complex regulatory regimes, and rethinking how to challenge the government’s theories of intent and culpability.
Jenner & Block law partners Precious Jacobs-Perry, April Atterberg and Wade Thomson recently secured a notable victory on behalf of their client, rap artist Chancelor Bennett — better known as Chance the Rapper — in a long-running breach-of-contract dispute against his former manager Patrick Corcoran.
The Federal Arbitration Act was enacted to require courts to enforce parties’ agreements to arbitrate disputes. More recently, the Supreme Court has said that “[t]he federal policy is about treating arbitration contacts like all others, not about fostering arbitration.” In bankruptcy cases, a recurring issue that litigants raise is whether a conflict exists between the FAA and the requirements of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
This article covers potential landmines for the average elected official or public employee, particularly through the lens of the always developing Open Public Records Act and will provide some tools that municipal attorneys can use to fight back against self-inflicted wounds or AI overreach.
This two-part series explores how law firms can build a smarter, more strategic client organization. Part One focuses on defining clients through two complementary lenses: Target Client Profiles and Client Segmentation.
Mass web-scraping for AI training, authorship of AI-generated works, and the scope of fair use in data-hungry systems are reshaping what “copyright risk” even means for a business. Companies that treat copyright as a mere box-checking exercise, or that assume long-standing internal practices are low-risk, increasingly find themselves out of step with how courts and regulators are thinking about AI-driven uses of content.
