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Tips for Complying with ABA and State Rules On Attorney Advertising
If legal marketing professionals are looking for the absolutely clear and consistent rules about attorney advertising that every firm can or should follow, know that the search is futile because the states not only modified the rules but called them by other names including codes, guidelines, standards, oaths, principles, pillars or tenets.
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Three Questions Regarding Zoning and EV Charging Stations
Owners of office and multi-family developments that install new charging stations are likely to see an increase in property values because their buildings will attract or retain EV owners. In order to facilitate and encourage more EV charging stations, municipalities need to update their zoning ordinances to regulate and manage this new land use.
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Playing Field Grows for Sports Law Practices
More law firms are betting on growing their sports practices amid recent changes in amateur and professional sports, finding it hard to ignore the multi-practice work that teams and leagues can bring to lawyers.
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Real Property Law
Tenants In Common Failed to Establish Claim of Right Element of Adverse Possession Claim Questions of Fact About Adverse Possession Claim
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Big Law In NYC Looking for Smaller, New Class A Spaces
Overall this year, law firms have been more likely to leave their current spaces and relocate, but they continue opting for smaller spaces.
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Do Post-Bankruptcy Petition Lease Claims Automatically Result In An Administrative Expense Claim for Unpaid Rent?
In In re Jughandle Brewing, a NJ Bankruptcy Court concluded allowance of an administrative expense claim is not automatic and also may not be the sole remedy for a debtor or trustee's failure to perform its post-petition obligations under a commercial lease.
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SEC Whistleblower Short Sellers
The position that short sellers should be denied the benefits of their critically important whistleblowing efforts is short-sighted and contrary to the notions of our capitalistic markets. Moreover, it will serve only to disincentive a vital constituency of the SEC Whistleblower Program, which, in turn, will degrade the effectiveness of the SEC's enforcement program.
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ABA Issues New Ethics Opinion On Billing for AI-Supported Work
A new American Bar Association ethics opinion touches on what has been a risky business area for Big Law in the emergence of generative AI: billing and fees related to AI-supported legal work.
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Fresh Filings
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
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IOC and Paris Attorneys Combatting Trademark Abuse at the Olympics
As the Paris Olympic Games get underway, trademark attorneys for the International Olympic Committee and Paris organizing committee will be working to protect the Olympic brand.
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