Most municipalities use tax foreclosures to pay for schools, parks, police, fire protection, and a host of other public services and need enforcement measures both to collect the taxes and to incentivize others to continue paying on time, although many also sell their tax liens to obtain quicker payment of tax obligations.
Law firms are racing for position in the new world of answer engine optimization (AEO) and AI-generated search. One of the most important tools in that race is something many law firm marketers may not have heard of: schema. Schema is standardized code added to a website to help search engines and AI systems understand what the information on a page means and how it relates to information elsewhere on the site.
Aldi’s shoppers know exactly what they are buying. Mondelez v. Aldi will test whether trademark law can see, and price, what a package borrows.
Interpreting entertainment-industry contract clauses or even whether there is an enforceable agreement often can be tricky. This article summarizes three recent court decisions dealing with these concerns.
In a recent decision in the bankruptcy case of Del Monte Foods, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey interpreted a liability management exercise that was challenged through the prepetition term loan agreement’s ratable sharing provision in the context of a debtor-in-possession financing and related roll-up, thereby providing the first actual market guidance on this issue.
As global law practices and flexible work arrangements expand, lawyers are increasingly working outside their home jurisdictions. Whether driven by client needs, secondments, or remote work flexibility, these arrangements can quietly create tax residency and permanent establishment risks, often sooner than expected and without formal firm approval.
Quantum computing has the potential to crack today’s encryption standards, which means that companies that rely on the encryption of stolen data cannot assume that the data will remain impervious to decryption.
Agentic AI introduces risks that are novel and complex, but the most effective response is a familiar one. Zero Trust answers the problem of when an AI agent misfires on its own by constraining what an agent can do rather than betting on how it will behave.
The outsourcing of office and administrative services is expected to grow 50%-60% in the next five years. Contrary to what decision-makers think, and what the service providers hope you think, the biggest risk in outsourcing isn't choosing the wrong provider. It's outsourcing the wrong process, under the wrong model, with the wrong performance measures and contract terms.
When a debtor that is a landlord rejects a real property lease in bankruptcy, the tenant has a choice. Either the tenant can treat the lease as terminated or retain its rights under the lease. These rights include the use, possession, quiet enjoyment, subletting and hypothecation of the property. In a recent case, the parties and the court grappled with this question: when does the tenant need to make that decision? When the lease is rejected, or by some other date?
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