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On Aug. 20, 2014, summary judgment was granted to the plaintiff insurance company, upholding its denial of coverage to indemnify judgments in two trademark counterfeiting cases. United States Fidelity & Guarantee v. Ashley Reed Trading. The opinion provides insight to trademark practitioners about insurance coverage and provides information about strategies for trademark owners' enforcement efforts.

When a client seeks representation on an equity joint venture, there are eight primary structural considerations that provide the framework for documenting the venture: 1) initial capital contributions; 2) future capital needs; 3) cash distribution waterfall; 4) governance; 5) transfers; 6) exit rights; 7) restrictive covenants; and 8) affiliate transactions.

While numerous companies now maintain an active presence on Twitter, the extent to which brands can lawfully interact with other Twitter users for advertising and similar commercial purposes is still not yet clearly defined and, consequently, the legal risk associated with each tweet is not always properly weighed before a promotional social media campaign is launched.

Strategic contract management and the deployment of the right supporting technology can mitigate issues and help organizations extract maximum value from their contracts.

There are both tactical and ethical reasons to refrain from having litigants prepared for evaluations by forensic mental health consultants. Here's why.

For five years, a team at international law firm Hogan Lovells tracked the wild financial peregrinations of a Kazakh oligarch suspected of running a $10 billion fraud. But this is more than a cloak-and-dagger story.

ALM research indicates that 52% of surveyed corporate counsel and small, medium and large firms are either already using an electronic signature solution or plan to implement one in the next 12 months.

While there are not currently any laws in the United States forbidding employers from gleaning information from social media ' whether during the hiring process or at any point in the employment relationship ' improper use can get them into trouble.