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Obama Calls for Industry's Cooperation On Cybersecurity

David Ruiz

President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Feb. 13 promoting information-sharing between the private sector and the government in an effort to combat the rising number of security hacks and data breaches.

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In the Spotlight: Credit Tenant Lease Financing

R. Robinson Plowden & Virginia Worthy

While credit tenant loans represent a relatively small scope of overall financing transactions, they are a noteworthy addition to the finance realm due to their creative structures and strong performance. As various financial sources predict that the commercial real estate finance sector is expected to continue on its upward swing, there is a sense that a wider breath of financing structures will be attractive to lenders.

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Castle Defense

Rudy Kim & Michelle Yang

The battle over expert testimony on patent damages harkens back to the middle ages when would-be attackers developed new strategies for laying siege to a castle, defensive counter-measures were developed to thwart those siege tactics. As plaintiffs have introduced expert testimony based on novel patent damages theories, defendants have asked courts to fulfill their gatekeeping role by preventing certain types of expert testimony from reaching the jury.

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Franchisor Wins IP Dispute

Craig R. Tractenberg

In bankruptcy, the debtor is entitled to reject (not perform) burdensome contracts. For franchise agreements that contain trademark licenses, the effects of rejection are decided on a case-by-case basis. Sometimes the licensees of the trademarks can continue to use the trademarks over the objection of the franchisor and sometimes not. This issue arose in the Crumbs Bake Shop case in connection with the sale of its assets.

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Rapid Developments In Turtles' Pre-1972 Recordings Suits

David Bario, Lisa Shuchman & Ross Todd

A California federal judge rejected dueling, Hail-Mary motions by both sides in a key battle over copyrights to pre-1972 recordings.

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Pricing It Right: Restructuring Billing

Tam Harbert

As pressure on pricing continues, Big Law firms are buying (or building) analytics technology and hiring pricing specialists ' people who use market data, internal firm data and economics/pricing experience to ensure that firms are smart about bidding on work.

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With Highly Anticipated Copyright Decision, The AutoHop Litigation Is Coming to a Close Image

With Highly Anticipated Copyright Decision, The AutoHop Litigation Is Coming to a Close

J. Alexander Lawrence

In 2012, DISH Network announced two novel product offerings that would result in considerable backlash from the four major broadcast television networks and set in motion a three-year, wide-ranging, multi-front battle with the networks. As the dust now begins to settle, the copyright litigation has resulted in important precedents that will help define the boundaries under the Copyright Act for the multi-channel programming distribution industry.

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How to Obtain Social Media Data For Defending Lawsuits

Emily T. Acosta & Eric P. Conn

Obtaining social media user content under most circumstances is extremely difficult ' unless you use the correct strategy. Simply sending discovery requests without a basic understanding of the information available is a fool's errand. It is pivotal that a practitioner who wants to conduct formal discovery of social media user content understand how each site stores and communicates its data.

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New York's Insurance Notice Statute and Contractual Choice of Law

Michael T. Sharkey

Two recent decisions have held that despite an express choice-of-law clause selecting New York law to apply to an insurance policy, a policyholder is not entitled to the protection of New York's statute requiring an insurance company to show prejudice before coverage is forfeited on the grounds of late notice, unless the policy was also issued or delivered in New York. This article provides an analysis.

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Alimony Reform in 2014: A Review

Jennifer Presti

After almost three years of legislative debate over proposed versions of the law, alimony reform has now come to New Jersey. This article reviews the reform of the New Jersey Alimony Statute, and discusses how those changes compare with the reform of alimony laws in other states.

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