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Debating Nonlawyer Ownership of Law Firms
Lawyers love a debate, and it looks like a doozy is set concerning nonlawyer ownership of law firms (NLO). The president of the New York State Bar Association, David P. Miranda, has requested that New York lawyers just "Say No to Nonlawyer Ownership (NLO)."
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FinTech: The Emerging Financial Crime Compliance Minefield
The proliferation of so-called "FinTech" ' particularly by startups outside the financial sector ' raises a host of thorny FCC issues for regulators and financial institutions required to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and its anti-money laundering (AML) mandates.
Does Adoption of Cloud Computing Shift Cyber Liability Risk?
The rapid adoption of cloud computing has attracted companies that seek to lower their information technology costs. At the same time, it is reported that there has been an increase in data loss and an increase in cyber-liability claims against companies. But the biggest vendors in the cloud computing industry want to push the risk of penetration of their systems onto their customers adopting the technology.
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Federal Circuit Affirms District Court Decision Finding Claim Covering Method for Gene Detection Is Directed to Unpatentable Subject Matter <br>Federal Circuit: Estoppel Provision Does Not Apply To Any Grounds Raised in a Petition for IPR Where Such Grounds Are Denied and the IPR Has Proceeded To a Final Written Decision
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Do Panama Papers Give Opportunity to Collect Judgment From Daddy Yankee?
Puerto Rican reggaeton megastar Daddy Yankee, whose hits include "Gasolina" and "Limbo," owes a $2.2 million judgment to a concert promoter who sued him and his booking agent in 2011. Attorneys for promoter Diego Hernan de Iraola have been trying to enforce the federal district court judgment against Daddy Yankee, by garnishing the singer's accounts in Miami, FL, and Puerto Rico. Now that Daddy Yankee has come up in news reports from the document leak at the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, de Iraola's legal team has new leads on accounts with companies linked to Ayala Rodriguez.
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Non-Madoff Defendants
A bankruptcy trustee, given the responsibility to liquidate estate assets and distribute the resulting funds to creditors, frequently must pursue causes of action against non-debtors who have liability to the estate. It is not surprising that such competing claims arise frequently in bankruptcy cases involving Ponzi schemes.
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The NLRB and the Joint Employer
Recent NLRB decisions have rewritten the labor law map in a variety of ways, but nowhere more significantly than in the areas of franchising and outsourcing. This portends a vast expansion of employer liability on a joint employer theory in almost every area of law imaginable from tort to employment discrimination litigation.
Using Communication Decency Act and Promissory Estoppel to Combat Internet Defamation
Internet defamation is a regular occurrence. While the common law affords e-defamation victims a right to sue both the original speaker of the defamatory statements and the publisher, Internet anonymity of the original speaker and the publisher's use of Section 230 of the CDA often make such litigation difficult. However, the CDA also provides a basis for combating Internet defamation.
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Are Insurance Late Notice Provisions Toothless After <i>Arrowood v. King</i>?
This article examines post-2012 Connecticut case law addressing late-notice provisions in various insurance policies and attempts answer the question: Are late-notice provisions now toothless or do they still have some bite?
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