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COVID-19: A Massive Impediment to Bankruptcy Relief Image

COVID-19: A Massive Impediment to Bankruptcy Relief

Joseph H. Lemkin

With Uncertainty As to When the Pandemic Will Ease, Bankruptcy Courts Do Not Seem to Be a Panacea Leading to Successful Reorganizations or Orderly Liquidations for Troubled Companies The impact of COVID-19 on efforts of businesses to reorganize or even orderly liquidate in bankruptcy has been swift and devastating

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How a Law Firm's Comp System Affects Profitability and Partner Satisfaction Image

How a Law Firm's Comp System Affects Profitability and Partner Satisfaction

Hugh A. Simons

Compensation systems are typically a strategic afterthought, seen as the means by which to allocate the spoils of a successful strategy. They're viewed as affecting the level of grousing among partners, but not a firm's performance. The data, however, indicates the reverse is true.

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COVID-19: How to Keep Cybersecurity in Mind When Negotiating Work-From-Home Vendor Contracts Image

COVID-19: How to Keep Cybersecurity in Mind When Negotiating Work-From-Home Vendor Contracts

Steve Blickensderfer & Trish Carreiro

COVID-19 spurred an overnight surge in demand for work-from-home vendors — from videoconferencing companies to cloud service providers. This caused some companies to rush into service contracts without fully appreciating the privacy and cybersecurity risks involved.

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New FCPA Decision Limits DOJ's International Reach Image

New FCPA Decision Limits DOJ's International Reach

Harry Sandick & Devon Hercher

In recent years, we have seen the DOJ expand its international focus, as it looks to punish foreign nationals, often for conduct that occurred almost entirely outside of the territorial borders of the United States. DOJ's eagerness, however, has not been matched by judicial enthusiasm concerning the extraterritorial application of U.S. law.

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UMG Defense Lawyers Discuss Ruling in Artists' Suit Over Warehouse Fire Image

UMG Defense Lawyers Discuss Ruling in Artists' Suit Over Warehouse Fire

Jenna Greene

In April, a U.S. District Judge tossed a six-count, $100 million-complaint against Universal Music Group that was filed after a 2008 warehouse fire that reportedly destroyed master recordings. The class action was originally brought by or on behalf of recording artists. After the ruling, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partners Scott Edelman and Deborah Stein and associate Nathaniel Bach, who served as defense counsel in the litigation, discussed the case.

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Practical Tips for Securing Patent Rights for AI-Generated Inventions Image

Practical Tips for Securing Patent Rights for AI-Generated Inventions

Gunjan Agarwal 

While AI is rising as a key commercial player at the global scale with an expected market size of almost $400 billion by 2025, are patent laws around the world equipped to incentivize this revolution?

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COVID-19: Should Landlords Apply Security Deposits to Unpaid Rents? Image

COVID-19: Should Landlords Apply Security Deposits to Unpaid Rents?

Ira Fierstein

There are currently several bills in various stages of being passed into law in several states as of early April, which would restrict, on a temporary basis, the eviction of commercial tenants from their leased premises for failure to pay rent, Whether these bills get signed into law and survive judicial scrutiny remains to be seen. The question then is whether a landlord may enforce the security deposit section of its lease and take the deposit should the tenant miss a rent payment.

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Avoiding Trade Secret Losses During Corporate Collaboration Image

Avoiding Trade Secret Losses During Corporate Collaboration

Felix Eyzaguirre & Katherine D. Prescott

Effective corporate collaborations — whether close customer relationships, supplier partnerships or formal joint ventures — demand that sensitive information be shared. Without proper agreements and well-defined boundaries, however, those corporate collaborations can lead to loss of trade secret protection and entangle the parties in litigation.

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COVID-19: As Coronavirus Ravages the Economy, Bankruptcy Attorneys Prepare for the Flood Image

COVID-19: As Coronavirus Ravages the Economy, Bankruptcy Attorneys Prepare for the Flood

Samantha Stokes

Law firms have always counted on bankruptcy as a countercyclical practice in hard times. Now, those that prepared when the economy was booming may be about to get their reward.

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5 Lease and Finance Options To Help Conserve — or Even Create — Capital Image

5 Lease and Finance Options To Help Conserve — or Even Create — Capital

Barry Steel

Five options available that leasing and financing can help law firms not only to deploy their business continuity requirements in the short term, but also improving liquidity now and better position the firm for their future.

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