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Law firms have bumped up starting salaries for associates at top firms over the past few years, prompting Big Law clients to raise a stink about outsized salaries for junior lawyers. But it turns out that this pay falls short of past peaks when inflation is taken into account.

Federal Circuit Remands for Further Proceedings to Determine Whether RPX's Petitions for IPR Were Time Barred For Failing to Identify Its Client As a 'Real Party in Interest'
Federal Circuit Holds that Common Law Tribal Sovereign Immunity Cannot Shield a Patent in IPR Proceedings,br>Federal Circuit Holds that an Unsuccessful IPR Petitioner Must Show 'Concrete Plans' for Future Potentially-Infringing Activity in Order to Demonstrate Article III Standing to Appeal PTAB's IPR Decision

Attorney and law firm moves in bankruptcy law.

On April 26, 2018, a unanimous Court of Appeals held that apartments vacated between 1997 and 2011 will be considered luxury deregulated where the legal regulated rent was $2,000 or more at the time the incoming tenant moved in. The court reversed the First Department, which had held that such apartments would not be deregulated unless the rent was $2,000 or more at the time the outgoing tenant vacated.

Unique Circumstances Require Rent Recomputation
City Human Rights Law Requires Landlord to Convert Window Into Wheelchair Accessible Entrance
“As Is” Clause Does Not Bar Claim That Landlord Intentionally Caused Defective Conditions

LPC's Denial of Hardship Application Upheld
Developer's Failure to Obtain Final Decision Deprives Federal Court of Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Spot Zoning and SEQRA Challenges Rejected

Purchaser Adequately Alleged Concealment of Defects
Space Allocation Cannot Be Changed Without Unanimous Vote; Unjust Enrichment Claim Survives

No Easement CreatedGrant Created Valid and Alienable Possibility of Reverter
Contract Vendee Entitled to Specific Performance
Questions of Fact About Scope of Mortgage