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Disney-OpenAI’s Sora Deal: What it Signals for Licensing and Responsible AI

January 01, 2026

The Walt Disney Co.’s newly announced, three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI to bring more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars to Sora marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of intellectual property and generative AI. For rights holders, platforms, and brands, the deal illustrates an emerging blueprint for commercializing iconic IP in AI-native formats while attempting to manage legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.

The Go-to-Market Plan Is a Powerful Tool to Add to 2026 Bus Dev Plans

January 01, 2026

Forward-looking firms have added a powerful tool to their strategic planning: the go-to-market (GTM) plan. For law firms, a GTM plan helps align lawyers, marketing and business development professionals, and firm leaders around clear objectives, research-informed opportunities and measurable outcomes.

What’s Behind All the Recent Law Firm Mergers?

January 01, 2026

After decades of relatively muted activity, the legal industry has witnessed three major law firm mergers in the space of a single month. So what is going on?

NYC Landlords Can’t Serve Commercial Tenants Using ‘More Relaxed Service Methods,’ Court Rules

January 01, 2026

A New York City court ruled that landlords don’t have a process under the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law to serve certain commercial tenants with the 14-day rent demands needed to begin repossessing a property.

When Courts Push Back: The New e-Discovery Proportionality Standard for Mobile Data

January 01, 2026

Mobile discovery has reached an inflection point. Courts spent 2024 handing out sanctions for two opposite failures: failing to preserve mobile data and collecting far too much of it. Litigants now face a genuine discovery double bind, including being punished for being careless and being punished again for being overly aggressive. That push-pull (collect more vs. collect less) is shaping the 2025 e-discovery landscape more than any technical development or new tool.

Fresh Filings

January 01, 2026

Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.

Landlord & Tenant Law

January 01, 2026

Constructive Eviction Defense Precludes Summary Judgment on Ejectment Claim

Federal Circuit Reasserts Limits On USPTO Authority In 'KAHWA' Ruling

January 01, 2026

The decision reasserts important limits on the USPTO’s authority, particularly its reliance on unverified foreign-language translations, hypothetical assumptions about what businesses “might” offer in the future, and tenuous connections between a word and a service category.

Time Limits Subject to Equitable Defenses, Fifth Circuit Rules

January 01, 2026

Langston serves as a reminder that the expiration of a deadline in the Rules may not be the final word on the matter. While not often the case, there may be an equitable defense to an expired deadline.

Despite Slowing In Q3, 2025 Is On Track to Be One of the ‘Strongest Years Ever’ for Law Firm Leasing

January 01, 2026

Law firm leasing activity slowed in the third quarter of 2025, but boosted by continuing activity in non-major markets, year-to-date leasing in the sector was up 12% when compared with the same period in 2024, a signal that 2025 may come in as “one of the strongest years ever,” a new Cushman & Wakefield report finds.

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