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A recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida illustrates a benefit of utilizing a written joint defense agreement properly tailored to limit future conflicts, rather than relying on the oral agreements that are common among many practitioners.

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Attorneys retiring and succession planning are critical issues are often overlooked at the management level of law firms. A key question arises: What should come first, retirement or succession planning? Although they go hand in hand, many firms avoid addressing both.

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This article covers cyber trends and tips for organizations to explore in order to be better equipped to anticipate and respond to cyber incidents before a devastating breach occurs. The outcome? Diminished chance of class action activity, compliance violations, lost business, and mounting costs.

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In today's volatile economic climate, companies need to be more creative to find ways to mitigate risk. Litigation finance is one of those out-of-the-box solutions that can provide benefits.

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Experience management is vital not only in terms of raw time savings and cost efficiencies but is pivotal in the firm's ability to win new business.

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This article describes the DOJ's new M&A safe harbor policy and also provides practical insights on how companies engaged in M&A can meet the DOJ's expectations.

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Reversing and remanding, the Ninth Circuit emphasized: "The district court's approach of reducing choreography to 'poses' is fundamentally at odds with the way we analyze copyright claims for other art forms, like musical compositions."

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, on remand from the Supreme Court, further remanded to the district court the key issue of whether the Chapter 11 debtor gave "adequate assurance of future performance of" a commercial real property shopping center lease "as required by the Bankruptcy Code after the debtor's assignment of its lease.