For years, various government authorities and security experts warned the legal industry about the proverbial cyber target painted on their chest. Given nebulous reporting legislations, the data breaches at law firms remained below the press horizon. But you can only dodge so many bullets until one hits the industry square in the chest.
After years of discussion, Congress recently enacted federal legislation establishing a private right of action for misappropriation of trade secrets, vesting the federal courts with original jurisdiction over the litigation of such claims. After signaling his support for some time, the President signed the bill into law May 11.
Florida's Governor Rick Scott has vetoed a contentious bill that would have created a legal presumption in nearly all child custody cases in favor of equal time sharing between parents.
This article discusses a more equal road to succession in New York's regulated apartments after Obergefell v. Hodgesand the Marriage Equality Act.
Ticketing policies for sporting and other events have been receiving increased attention in both the media and legal spheres.
In the wake of recent insider trading decisions issued by the Second and Ninth Circuits, the Supreme Court has granted certiorari to determine if proof of a close family relationship is enough to satisfy the personal benefit requirement laid out in previous decisions addressing tipper-tippee liability.
Compared with the rest of the world, the United States has historically been a more open framework when dealing with information. Social media has made even the most mundane and possibly personal pieces of data available to many with a press of a finger. Such an open relinquishment of private information is almost assumed and has become part of the American culture. Those who think about how easy it is to access data understand how their own data has become part of the searchable cyberspace.
This two-part article constitutes an overall review of ACC clauses in first-party property policies and their application across the United States. Most courts have found ACC clauses to be enforceable, although a handful of states have held that insurers may not contractually opt out of the state's causation doctrines, i.e. , efficient proximate cause or concurrent causation. We conclude the article herein.
The "one-percenters" that we are hearing so much about in this year's primary election campaigns also have an analogous place in current law firm economics. The rich are getting richer, and most others are struggling to hold their own.
