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Know Your Tech

Michael Bahar & Kristen Bertch

Technologies are often pitched as solutions, if not game-changing solutions. Indeed, many times they are, but no solution comes without the seeds of its own costs and challenges. For pragmatic and regulatory compliance reasons, it is increasingly important for boards, senior executives and general counsel to sufficiently understand technologies, not just their potential promise.

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A Survey of Proposed Federal Privacy Legislation and the Year Ahead

Jeffrey Atteberry

The social, economic, and political forces pushing for a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's privacy regime are numerous, and many see 2019 as presenting the best opportunity yet for passage of federal data privacy legislation.

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FINRA Report on Best Cybersecurity Practices Is Must-Read, Alston & Bird Lawyer Says

MP McQueen

<b><i>Cybersecurity Practices Must “Be Appropriately Tailored to the Entity. It Should Be Risk-Based, Based on Risk to Your Organization.”</b></i><p>The recently released FINRA report provides guidance for broker-dealer firms of various sizes on how they can mitigate the risks of cyberattacks and data theft by other means.

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Legal Tech: Winter 2019 E-Discovery Case Law Review

Mike Hamilton

As a practice, e-discovery involves professionals from a variety of disciplines. For this case law review, we spoke with professionals who play different roles in the e-discovery process to identify three case law rulings from 2018 that stood out in the impact they have on how e-discovery is practiced today.

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The Comprehensive Plan Requirement

Stewart E. Sterk

New York law has long required that zoning be in accordance with a comprehensive plan. Historically, the plan requirement has been toothless. Legislative efforts to invigorate the requirement have largely been ignored by the courts. Yet litigants continue to challenge zoning ordinances as inconsistent with a comprehensive plan.

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Real Property Law

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Ownership of Shifting Beaches<br>Brokerage Commission Provision Expired<br>Adverse Possession/Tennis Court<br>Deed Obtained by False Pretenses

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Development

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Negative Declaration/Time Bar<br>No Estoppel Against Village<br>Denial of Area Variance

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Landlord & Tenant

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Prior Judgment Does Not Bar Breach Claim<br>Accommodation of Disabilities

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Cooperatives and Condominiums

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Right to Rooftop Space

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25 Years After: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose and the State of Copyright Fair-Use Controversies Image

25 Years After: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose and the State of Copyright Fair-Use Controversies

Stan Soocher

On March 7, 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court decided for the first time that a parody may be a copyright fair use. In the 25 years that followed, the High Court's unanimous 9-0 ruling in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Inc., has been cited in more than 500 court decisions. But the Supreme Court's pronouncement left questions and controversies in its wake.

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