The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which works under the umbrella of the Librarian of Congress, sets statutory-license royalty terms and rates. The U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently issued two notable decisions about the CRB.
As quantum machines become more powerful, today’s uncrackable encryption schemes may become trivial to break. Opinions vary as to how soon that moment, so-called “Q Day,” will arrive, but the threat is real.
How do you communicate when you know the harm before you know its cause? For law firms, it comes up both when advising a client and when explaining an incident of their own.
The gap between what a firm bills and what it collects is not a collections failure. It is a design flaw in how the whole revenue cycle is wired, and clients armed with AI are now exploiting it faster than firms can respond.
Two companion decisions issued by the Appellate Division, Second Department, on July 29, 2026, provide the clearest appellate guidance to date on the boundary between New York’s statewide cannabis licensing framework and local land-use authority to regulate cannabis dispensaries.
The Goldman Sachs decision may offer a path through the longstanding conflict: beyond asking whether a dispute is core, future courts may use the Supreme Court’s analysis in Stern to assess whether the dispute lies within the bankruptcy court’s constitutionally protected sphere of authority.
This article surveys the contours of puffery across federal and state advertising law, examines where courts and the National Advertising Division (a unit of BBB National Programs, which provides a self-regulatory forum for advertising disputes) have drawn the line, and identifies practical takeaways for practitioners whose clients want to puff — but not too much.
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.
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