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Risks in Online Collection of Children's Data Image

Risks in Online Collection of Children's Data

Jeffrey Higel, Michael Bahar & Mike Nelson

As convenient, useful and cool mobile technology and interconnected devices are, they come with risks that remain largely unseen or, worse, ignored. Some pose security risks and privacy risk, like those present in voice-activated devices — especially for children. For manufacturers, they also pose regulatory litigation and insurance risks, especially when children end up using their “smart” products.

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Use of Arbitration In Place of Inter Partes Review Proceedings

David L. Newman

An IPR might be more efficiently accomplished through arbitration than through a PTAB proceeding, so it should be considered by practitioners.

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Media & Communications: Advising a Client on Crisis Communications — The Three Rs and Three Fs Image

Media & Communications: Advising a Client on Crisis Communications — The Three Rs and Three Fs

Janet Falk

If you have not already encouraged your partners to advise their clients of the need to develop a crisis communication plan in advance, and provided some guidance on best practices, do so immediately. As a complement to a well-developed plan, here are two mnemonic approaches to managing communications in a crisis: the three Rs and the three Fs.

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Big Law's Trojan Horse: Are the Big Four Preparing an Invasion?

Dan Packel

<b><i>Law Firms Partner With the Big Four to Serve Their Clients, But the Accountants Pose an Existential Threat. What Will Happen If — or When — They Turn Competitive?</b></i><p>For law firm leaders, rank-and-file partners and everyone else in the law firm ecosystem, the Big Four shouldn't be a laughing matter. They are serious about selling legal services, and clients are listening.

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In the Courts

Colleen Snow

Sentencing for Two Bankers in Zürcher Kantonalbank of Switzerland Case

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Case Notes

ssalkin

Without Contractual Consent to Inspection, Lack of Protest Doesn't Excuse Landlord's Trespass<br>Resulting Trust Found Where Commercial Property Held in Just One Partner's Name

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The Confounding Paradox of Marketing Investment for Struggling Law Firms

Bill Josten

“You have to spend money to make money.” Or, so holds the well-worn cliché. Nevertheless, for those firms struggling to find meaningful growth in today's market, where do they find the funds they need to spend in order to spur growth?

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Eighth Circuit Rejects Ponzi Scheme Presumption to Protect Legitimate Loan Repayments Image

Eighth Circuit Rejects Ponzi Scheme Presumption to Protect Legitimate Loan Repayments

Michael L. Cook

The Eighth Circuit affirmed the lower courts' dismissal of a bankruptcy trustee's $250 million fraudulent transfer suit against two banks (the Banks), rejecting the so called “Ponzi scheme presumption” that “allows a creditor to by-pass the proof requirements of a fraudulent-transfer claim by showing that the debtor operated a Ponzi scheme and transferred assets 'in furtherance of the scheme.'”

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Complaints to Amazon by TV Show Host and His Attorney Didn't Constitute DMCA Notices<br>No Actual Malice by Defendants in Libel Suit over Composite Character in Film

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IP News

Jeff Ginsberg & Hui Li

Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Does Not Invalidate Section 156 Patent Term Extension <br>Federal Circuit Holds Assignor Estoppel Does Not Apply in IPR Context<br>Federal Circuit Reverses District Court Holding of Patent Ineligibility of Computer Security Patent

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