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Loft Tenant Subject to Rent Stabilization<br>Video Surveillance a Substitute for Part-Time Lobby Attendants

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Fighting Biometric Fraud on the Blockchain

Alastair Johnson

The use of SMS verification codes as a security measure has recently been exposed as a mere stop-gap solution because of the ability of hackers to fraudulently take over phone numbers. Biometrics meanwhile is proving to be one of the best new technologies to combat fraud and identity theft.

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10 Common Mistakes When Dealing With DOJ Antitrust Criminal Prosecutors

Eric M. Meiring

Corporate counsel should be aware of the following 10 common mistakes that practitioners make when representing clients in criminal antitrust matters.

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What to Consider When Drafting Renewal and/or Expansion Terms in Arbitration Clauses Image

What to Consider When Drafting Renewal and/or Expansion Terms in Arbitration Clauses

Elizabeth Kluger Cooper & Kimberly C. Jones

Navigating through a murky arbitration clause is no easy feat. Assuming familiarity with the basics, the following is a list of considerations that should prove valuable whether representing the tenant or the landlord.

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Patent Eligibility Remains Uncertain — Especially for the Life Sciences — Even After Recent Federal Circuit Decisions and Efforts By the USPTO to Bring Clarity Image

Patent Eligibility Remains Uncertain — Especially for the Life Sciences — Even After Recent Federal Circuit Decisions and Efforts By the USPTO to Bring Clarity

Susan M. Gerber & A. Patricia Campbell

Part One of a Two-Part Article Congress is empowered to create a patent system to promote the useful arts, and it has enacted laws to create a patent system that encourages innovation. Balancing that power, however, the courts in recent years have tried to rein in the scope of the patent right by limiting the scope of patent-eligible subject matter.

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Confronting the Company: Corporate Guilty Pleas as Evidence in Criminal Trials Image

Confronting the Company: Corporate Guilty Pleas as Evidence in Criminal Trials

William F. Johnson

This article reviews the history of the admission of individual co-conspirator plea allocutions in criminal cases and discuss why the admission of a corporate guilty plea, despite the opportunity to cross-examine a corporate employee who signed the plea agreement, does not provide the type of cross-examination guaranteed by the Confrontation Clause.

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Making Sense of YouTube's Monetization Policies

Gwendolyn Seale

This article delves into YouTube's policies for channel monetization, explores the different streams of revenue an artist or creator may be entitled to receive for their works, and offer suggestions to indie creators and more established creators, so they can meet these new thresholds.

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Reports of the Demise of 'Gifting' Chapter 11 Plans Are An Exaggeration Image

Reports of the Demise of 'Gifting' Chapter 11 Plans Are An Exaggeration

Timothy W. Hoffmann & Mark G. Douglas

In Nuverra Environmental Solutions,, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware affirmed a bankruptcy court order confirming a non-consensual Chapter 11 plan that included "gifted" consideration from a senior secured creditor to fund unequal distributions to two separate classes of unsecured creditors.

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Business Crimes Hotline

Colleen Snow

Changes to Yates Memo Announced

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The Bankruptcy Code's Inherent Limitations for Struggling Golf Courses Image

The Bankruptcy Code's Inherent Limitations for Struggling Golf Courses

Daniel A. Lev

<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p>This article describes conflicts with zoning boards and neighbors as it relates to distressed golf course properties and the methods sometimes available in the bankruptcy realm for working around the problem of restrictive covenants that run with the land.

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