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Quarterly State Compliance Review

Sandra Feldman

This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect between May 1 and July 1, 2014 as well as some recent cases of note.

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IP Due Diligence

Michael McGurk & W. Caroline Chen

Despite some significant hurdles, outside counsel can conduct a comprehensive due diligence analysis and deliver a sufficient result-driven analysis without disclosing any confidential information from the disclosing party.

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Big Data and Regulation

John. H. Walsh

Big data has taken the world by storm. From its origins as a technical solution for Internet search engines and online retail sales, it has spread across business, science and now government. Big data tools have shown extraordinary power to quickly sort and analyze data, both structured and unstructured. Ultimately, the power of big data resides in its ability to identify signals or patterns in vast data sets.

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Ninth Circuit's Novel Ruling that Copyrights In Masters Can Be Sold to Satisfy Legal Fees

Stan Soocher

Chasing clients for legal fees can be a complex matter, and the Clinton recording masters dispute has as many twists and turns as the polyrhythms on a funk track.

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Employee Departures and Data Loss

Scott Giordano

Recent litigation involving former-employee data loss--and discussion on what to do to avoid this litigation.

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Book Digitization Ruling Shifts Transformative Use Analysis

Robert J. Bernstein & Robert W. Clarida

Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that use of the HathiTrust Digital Library for the purpose of search and accessibility each constitutes fair use.

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Lawyers, Law Firms and Innovation

Terri Mottershead

The important thing to note here is that decline need not mean extinction ' provided the industry changes. And changing it is.

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Landlord & Tenant

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Analysis of several major rulings.

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Eighth Circuit Revives NFL Players' Pay Cap Lawsuit

Jan Wolfe

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has given the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) an opening to revive its $3 billion lawsuit accusing league owners of colluding to place a secret salary cap on the 2010 season.

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<i>Twombly</i> and <i>Iqbal</i> As Applied to Non-Fraud No-Injury Claims

James Rotondo & Kaitlin Canty

This article explores the application by a number of courts of the <I>Twombly</I> and <I>Iqbal</I> standards to no-injury cases involving breach of warranty claims.

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