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Fate of FTC's Noncompete Ban Unclear After Texas Federal Court Ruling

Maydeen Merino

A Texas federal court's overturning of the Federal Trade Commission's ban on noncompete clauses for most workers is far from the final word on the legality of the controversial rule.

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IP News

Matthew Weiss

Federal Circuit: Affirms Preliminary Injunction on Cancer Assays Federal Circuit: Affirms Judgment of Unpatentability on the Pleadings for Claims Directed to Method of Assisting an Investigator in Conducting a Background Investigation

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The Case for Building a Documentation Plan On Business Owner Compensation

Jeffrey A. Galant

Business owners, among their numerous tasks, should seek to minimize income taxes as they would any other expense, of course accommodating to the extent necessary the needs of their business. In this regard, building a documentary record to support the various tax positions being taken may preserve an income tax deduction that otherwise would be lost

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Landlord & Tenant Law

New York Real Estate Law Reporter Staff

Liquidated Damages Clause Might Constitute Unenforceable Penalty

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Players On the Move

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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The Top Rated Bull and Bear CRE Markets

Erik Sherman

Trepp named its top choices for bull and bear CRE metro markets and did the same for the single most property type and metro combination, during July 2024. The firm is trying to identify what drives positive and negative investor sentiment.

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Legal Remedies Against Revenge Porn

Elisa Reiter & Daniel Pollack

Instant access to the internet has made sharing photographs online easy. Unfortunately, this has opened the door to revenge porn. Revenge porn is a serious violation of privacy that can have devastating consequences for victims. How might a victim of revenge porn counteract posts of compromising photographs to social media?

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Why High-Quality AI Data Is Crucial to Fighting Financial Crime 

Tom Bock, Paul Connolly, Fernanda Barroso & Maria Evstropova

Integrating AI is more than just picking an AI solution. Counsels need to ensure they take a strategic approach to integrating this technology and understand the business and financial crime risk exposures they may face.

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Security Awareness Training: It's Time to Elevate Its Importance In Your Information Security Program

Corey Dean

With the threat landscape changing quickly, security awareness training should include more than just a click-through video. There needs to be a focus from leadership on protecting firm assets and a near constant diligence on ensuring users know and understand the risks and how they might be compromised.

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How SMB Law Firms Can Leverage AI In E-Discovery to Generate New Business

Alaa Jebbari

The scale and scope of e-discovery today leaves legal professionals scouring the vendor world for help, which often subjects them to complexity and, frankly, smoke and mirrors. Yet the introduction of AI and other automation-based technologies may now be cutting through some of that mystery.

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