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Prospective Partners Ask Small and Midsized Firms Tough Questions About Succession

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NIL Regulation: Can the NCAA Recover and Advance Its Own Fumble?

Howard Mulligan

With a view toward injecting some modicum of clarity into the volatile arena of NIL, a plethora of legislation has been enacted at the state level and proposed at the federal level.

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Emerging Legal Terrain: IP Risks from AI's Role In Drug Discovery

Fredrick Tsang, Antonia Sequeira & Carl Morales

This article explores the benefits and risks of AI-driven drug discovery from the legal perspective. Since the law governing IP rights in AI-driven drug discovery is still in its infant state, any future legal development is likely to have significant implications in many areas.

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Using Collaborative Content Development Highlights Lawyers Expertise

Meg Pritchard

The goal of a collaborative content approach is to fill resource gaps in the content process, from concept through creation to publication or release, so that more and better content gets to the right audiences.

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LLM Customization With A Path to Human Inventorship and Patent Rights

Jim Soong

A statutory predicate to the contractual outcome regarding ownership of patent rights is the requirement of a sufficient contribution by a natural person in the effort that yielded the output. The issues implicated by this requirement are one development among more to come as patent law and policy try to catch up to proliferating AI technology.

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Court of Appeals Addresses Pretext By Municipalities As A Bar to Land Use Approvals?

Steven M. Silverberg

Recently, there have been several instances in which municipalities have been challenged by property owners claiming that the municipal boards have utilized delaying tactics and other actions as a pretext to prevent development of their properties.

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Co-Ops and Condominiums

New York Real Estate Law Reporter Staff

Housing Discrimination Claim Dismissed Co-Op Did Not Breach Shareholder's Guaranty Agreement Co-Op Not Exempt from Lead Paint Mandate

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Navigating the SEC's New Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules

Olivia J. Greer, Catherine Kim & Jeeyoon Chung

With the first cybersecurity rule for public companies, and the landscape of ongoing scrutiny and enforcement, SEC registrants should not lose time in reviewing their cybersecurity postures and policies to ensure compliance and, even ahead of formal adoption of certain still-pending rules, align with best practices.

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What We Should Have Learned from COVID, Part 1: When In Doubt, Communicate

J. Mark Santiago

First In a Series First COVID Lesson: Leaders should communicate regularly to their firms in a more personal way, let their personality shine through, show some vulnerability and maybe reveal that they own a dog.

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Determining Ownership Rights of Social Media Accounts

Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme, Felicity Kohn & Abla Belhachmi

Whether in the context of artist/entertainment company, employer/employee, franchisor/franchisee or influencer/brand relationships, who owns and controls the social media accounts and associated goodwill sometimes comes into dispute. This article provides guidance on the standards courts apply in determining ownership rights over social media accounts, as well as best practices to head off such disputes before they occur.

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