The New York Convention for the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
Cross-border equipment lessors and their financiers often prefer binding arbitration clauses in their lease agreements on the assumption that, under the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, an arbitral award granted, for example, in the United States would be simple and quick to enforce in the foreign jurisdiction of the lessee. This, however, is not necessarily the case.
Digital Copiers Don't Forget
Risk mitigation requires a good understanding of where the vulnerabilities are, and one that many companies have missed is the sensitive data that likely reside in the hard drive memories of printers, copiers, and fax machines.
Digital Copiers Don't Forget
The measures discussed in this article can help organizations to manage the risks associated with operating in the digital environment. This is important because, in 2012, ignorance of what your copier remembers is no longer a defense.
Random House Suit Brings Renewed Push For 'E-Book' Rights in Older Contracts
The e-book format continues to be a growing force in book publishing. Worldwide sales are predicted to reach nearly $10 billion by 2016 ' compared to $3.2 billion in 2011. Current publishing agreements offered by book publishers unambiguously transfer electronic rights as well as print rights. But whether licenses granted by authors in older book publishing agreements can be construed to embrace this new technology is a major question for the industry. The answer will determine whether traditional publishers, or authors and the digital startups that some of them now choose to license to, will control e-book publishing of lucrative classic titles. This
Content Marketing and Web Analytics
The information generated by web analytics is a valuable tool to help lawyers and law firms plan ' and continuously improve ' their content and their online content distribution campaigns.
Proposed COPPA Amendments Address Geolocation, Behavioral Ads
This article discusses COPPA generally, recent enforcement actions, and the issues surrounding the proposed amendments to the COPPA regulations, including whether COPPA's definition of "personal information" should be expanded to cover geolocation and behavioral advertising data, and what new methods of parental notice should be adopted.
Contingent Fee Intake Guidelines
In deciding whether to accept a contingent fee case, your firm should approach this issue as it would any other decision regarding an investment of the firm's resources.
