LJN Newsletters

  • Vendor Risk Management for Law Firms: 7 Steps to Success

    Most firms have extensive cybersecurity measures in place, but emerging or unclear regulatory requirements embroil them in a never-ending cycle of evaluation, best-practices review, and implementation. Firms don't just need to have their own systems secured; a responsible firm must also reduce the risk of breach at their third-party vendors. As cloud service providers become commonplace, so too does a firm's responsibility to ensure their vendors are managing risk appropriately.

    May 01, 2018Ishan Girdhar

  • Challenging Disproportionate Forfeitures

    Part One of a Two-Part Article

    In Honeycutt v. United States, the Supreme Court rejected the argument that a federal criminal forfeiture statute permits joint and several liability for criminal asset forfeiture judgments, thereby protecting defendants who were only marginally culpable for a larger offense.

    May 01, 2018Harry Sandick, Daniel Ruzumna and Jacqueline Bonneau

  • How Law Firms Can Prepare for FinTech Wave

    The Innovations and Industry Disruption Should Have Law Firms Snapping to Attention

    The world of financial services is being upended by new technologies — from virtual currencies and blockchain to peer-to-peer lending and enhanced mobile banking — that are capturing customers, as well as the attention of Wall Street investors and industry regulators.

    May 01, 2018Keith Fall and Taylor Miller 

  • Co-Writer Files Royalties Suit Against Iglesias

    The title of Julio Iglesias's hit song “Me Olvide de Vivir” translates to “I Had Forgotten to Live.” But a Miami songwriter's copyright infringement lawsuit suggests the only thing the famed crooner “forgot” was to pay his collaborator.

    May 01, 2018Samantha Joseph

  • Real Property Law

    Broker Agreed to Commission Based on Rent for First Five Years of Lease
    Statements in Earlier Action Did Not Accelerate Mortgage and Trigger Statute of Limitations
    Death Does Not Extend Foreclosure Limitations Period
    Neighbor Granted Statutory Licence to Paint Fence
    Record Did Not Establish Conveyance of Easement
    Co-Tenant Entitled to Partition

    May 01, 2018ssalkin

  • Supreme Court Eyes Relaxing Rule on Foreign Patent Damages

    Despite Possibility of 'Chaos,' Presumption Against Extraterritorial Application May Give Way to Simple Proximate Cause Test, Justices Suggest

    The U.S. Supreme Court seemed to be mulling a flexible test for foreign patent damages last month, with the categorical presumption against extraterritoriality taking a back seat.

    May 01, 2018Scott Graham

  • You're Going to Need a Bigger Boat

    Small Law Firms Face Large Regulatory Requirements

    Unlike large firms with comparable resources with which to protect client non-public information, small firms can find themselves trapped between cyberattacks, like ransomware, that don't prejudice based on the size of firm, and regulators who are indifferent to your size, when investigating a potential violation.

    May 01, 2018Mark Sangster

  • The Growing Risk of Providing Oral Summaries

    Preserving Privilege in the Wake of SEC v. Herrera and the Government's Increasing Leverage to Obtain Such Disclosures

    A Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida held that an “oral download” of outside counsel's interview notes to the SEC resulted in a limited waiver of protection under the attorney work-product doctrine over the underlying interview notes and memoranda. The decision is a significant one, and underscores one of the core challenges facing companies seeking to cooperate with the government during the course of its investigations.

    May 01, 2018Marjorie J. Peerce and Brad Gershel