LJN Newsletters

The number of jobs in the legal sector remained flat in November compared with the previous month, even as the total number of jobs in the U.S. increased by 321,000, according to seasonally adjusted preliminary data released last month by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Updated information about a key case involving contaminated medication.

These days, all firms must provide more value-added services. In the short run, the more you know the better chance you have at winning the business. In the long run, close client knowledge and an understanding of the marketplace will augment client retention.

This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect during the last quarter. It also examines some recent decisions of interest, including three from Delaware.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, dismissed a lawsuit brought by hip-hop dancer Ereina "Honey Rockwell" Valencia over Universal's Honey and Honey 2 movies, released respectively in 2003 and 2011.

A copyright infringement lawsuit centered on the Telemundo network's popular Spanish-language telenovela El Rostro de Analia has some melodrama of its own.

In recent weeks, the entertainment industry has been rattled by the hacking and public release beginning in November of a massive amount of internal documents and e-mails from Sony Pictures Entertainment. By mid-December, the incident had already generated several class action lawsuits, alleging negligence and violation of state statutes. But the frequent hacking of consumer information is a liability issue that entertainment companies must be prepared for, too.

In Till v. SCS Credit Corp., theU.S. Supreme Court applied a formula to determine the appropriate cramdown interest rate with respect to the treatment of secured claims in a Chapter 13 case. However, Till left an unanswered question about how to determine an applicable cramdown interest rate for allowed secured claims in Chapter 11 cases.