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Fresh Filings
August 31, 2025
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
Fresh Filings
June 30, 2025
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
Service Provider Management, Not Selection, Determines Success
June 30, 2025
Many law firms are fixated on insuring they choose the right service provider. Granted the right partner is important, however it’s not the service provider you select; it’s how that service provider is managed that determines success.
The Importance of Change Management In Law Firms: Winning Lawyers' Support for Behavioral Change
May 01, 2025
Law firms, based on precedent, steeped in tradition, and historically resistant to disruption, often struggle with change management. Yet, in today’s rapidly evolving legal landscape, adapting to new technologies, processes and client expectations is no longer optional — it’s essential for survival.
How AI Complicates Trademark Protection In the Digital Age
April 30, 2025
While AI has many proven beneficial applications, there is a concerning trend emerging: an increasing number of disputes that are based on mimicry of distinctive brand identities without permission.
Back to the Future: How Data Privacy Laws Can Teach Us What to Expect With AI Regulation
April 30, 2025
While the amount of AI legislation introduced in various states is relatively limited, the scope of issues being legislated is quite broad. Despite the many uncertainties that remain to be clarified, there are actually many parallels between how data privacy laws took shape five years ago, and how AI legislation is developing today.
The Curious Persistence of the Six-Factor Trade Secret Test
April 30, 2025
This two-part article discusses the proof required for information to be considered a trade secret under U.S. statutory law, and includes detailed insight into the six-factor test outlined in the Restatement of Torts. Part One includes the evolving tests for determining a trade secret.
Beyond the Logo: How AI Complicates Trademark Protection In the Digital Age 
April 30, 2025
Today, building brands solely on the promise of a different product or service has become unsustainable. Any “new and improved” feature or benefit is quickly eclipsed by competitors. Consequently, brands signal category superiority not through rational claims, but by reinforcing a distinct persona — a “ness” comprised of distinguishing traits and behaviors that form an ownable brand essence difficult for competitors to replicate.
From Good to Great: How Law Firms Achieve Best-in-Class Profitability
April 30, 2025
What makes a law firm a best-in-class financial performer — and how to make my own practice more successful and enjoyable? This article provides simple principles any small to midsize law firm can use to improve performance.
AI Emerging As Critical Tool for Commercial Real Estate
April 30, 2025
In the fast paced world of commercial real estate, AI is emerging as a critical tool to increase efficiency, reduce costs and provide new opportunities. The infusion of AI into the real estate industry has the potential to change how properties are valued, managed and marketed.

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  • Private Equity Valuation: A Significant Decision
    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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