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California Privacy Protection Agency Roster Set
April 01, 2021
California named five members to the inaugural board of the California Privacy Protection Agency, a new entity created by voters in 2020 that will enforce the state's sweeping consumer privacy laws.
Landlords Could See Courts Sympathetic to Tenants In Eviction Lawsuits
April 01, 2021
While residential cases will grab the headlines, commercial property owners, managers and their attorneys should know that financially troubled tenants will be making news of their own. Armed with the hope of keeping their business afloat, they will unveil, or expand on, defenses to mitigate the pandemic's financial impact and to save their leases.
Congress Leaves SEC Subject to Litigation Over Disgorgement
April 01, 2021
Buried in the massive National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 is §6501, a provision authorizing the SEC to seek disgorgement of unjust enrichment within 10 years for certain securities law violations, and five years for others.
Synergizing Patents to Drive Innovation and Growth
April 01, 2021
As intellectual property continues to influence business operations, more companies are considering defensive patent pools as a strategic measure to guard against threats that can stifle innovation and growth for both businesses and industries.
Asserting the Common Interest Doctrine In Plan-Related Discovery
April 01, 2021
The common interest doctrine can be a powerful tool when used to block discovery of relevant and sometimes critical evidence. However, a determination of when it can be invoked requires a highly fact-intensive analysis.
Landlord & Tenant Law
April 01, 2021
Tenant Entitled to Terminate Lease When Premises Were Not Broom Clean Provision Ending Discounted Rate If Tenant Pays Late Is Unenforceable
11th Circuit Rules for Stephen King In Suit Over Dark Tower Series
April 01, 2021
Vincent Cox of Ballard Spahr in Los Angeles and Scott Ponce of Holland & Knight in Miami prevailed recently in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh…
Law Firms Taking Advantage of Tenant's Market In Office Space
April 01, 2021
Law firms are waiting to see how new trends like working remotely play out for office space post-pandemic, but that wait-and-see approach has created a tenant's market with opportunities for proactive firms in the short term.
Business Development: How & Why Law Firms Should Invest In Associates' Business Development Efforts
April 01, 2021
Many attorneys don't actually know how to scale business and require guidance in order to develop and exercise that muscle. This is precisely why law firms should invest in their associates' business development efforts from the start.
Law Firms Try to Hold On to 2020 Savings
April 01, 2021
A once-in-a-lifetime pandemic caused once-in-a-lifetime expense reductions that could forever alter the business of law. After those cost savings fueled double-digit profit growth for many firms in 2020, don't be surprised if Big Law leaders try to make some of those gains stick.

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