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AI Needs Its 'Come to Jesus' Moment

Brett Burney & Steve Salkin

It's time to stop the hype, stop talking up AI as if it's the next best thing since sliced bread and prove that it's a useful tool and technology that can actually be used in the actual practice of law.

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Sui Generis: Draft Like You Mean It

Lydia Pilch

The automatic acceptance of various boilerplate clauses in commercial leases in the face of jurisprudential modernity and evolving legal approaches is dangerous. The evolutionary exploits of a commercial lease aren't done yet, nor should they be.

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U.S. Regulators Lift the Curtain on Data Practices with Assessment, Reporting and Audit Requirements Image

U.S. Regulators Lift the Curtain on Data Practices with Assessment, Reporting and Audit Requirements

Alan Friel, David Manek, Sasha Kiosse, David Farber & Colleen M. Yushchak

The assessment and audit requirements of the new generation of state data protection laws will force U.S. companies to move beyond mere window dressing and instead require them to develop fulsome data protection programs.

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Revolutionizing Revenue: How 'Invoice to Cash' Innovation Rescues Firms from Billing Woes Image

Revolutionizing Revenue: How 'Invoice to Cash' Innovation Rescues Firms from Billing Woes

Milan Bobde

More and more, firms are understanding that it's the firm's ability to convert its agreed rates through billing and collections to collection realization that really counts. So why is it such a challenge for firms to solve it?

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Decoding DOJ's New 'Justice AI' Initiative

James D. Gatta, Allan J. Medina & Ian Q. Rogers

The DOJ is likely to face many practical challenges and novel issues as it begins coding its own algorithm for AI-related enforcement. This article briefly examines three areas of AI-related enforcement where such practical challenges and novel issues may arise.

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NYC Guarantor Liability for Post-Window-Period Rent

Cheryl Ginsburg

In Tamar Equities Corp. v. Signature Barbershop 33 Inc., the Appellate Division analyzed whether the Guaranty Law bars recovery from a guarantor where a commercial tenant's default initially arose during the Guaranty Law's window period, but persisted after its expiration.

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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Whether Copyright Plaintiffs Can Reach Back More Than Three Years for Infringement Damages Image

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Whether Copyright Plaintiffs Can Reach Back More Than Three Years for Infringement Damages

Stan Soocher

In a case of first impression, the Eleventh Circuit decided that a copyright plaintiff may recover damages that occur more than three years before a copyright lawsuit is filed.

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Artificial Intelligence Redefines Our Defense Against Cyber Threats

Roy Hadley

The cybersecurity landscape is on the brink of a transformative shift, with predictive analytics and behavioral analysis leading the charge for more resilient and adaptive defenses.

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Let's Do Lunch!

Steve Salkin

Is the lunch meeting still a thing? Is it a lost art? A lost opportunity?

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The FTC and DOJ's New Guidelines Promise Sharper Scrutiny of Mergers Image

The FTC and DOJ's New Guidelines Promise Sharper Scrutiny of Mergers

Karen Hoffman Lent & Kenneth Schwartz

From loosened structural presumptions to unconventional theories of harm such as "ecosystem competition" to consideration of a merger's effects on outside markets, we review some of the most noteworthy changes in the new Guidelines.

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