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Individual Liability of Condominium Sponsor's Principals
When are the principals of a condominium sponsor individually liable for harms suffered by purchasers? In Board of Managers of 570 Broome Condominium, the First Department declined to dismiss a condominium board's fraud and breach of fiduciary claims against individual defendants.
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Why Brand Awareness Matters
Building brand awareness takes time, effort and consistency. You won't see immediate results, and that can be disheartening. But there's a silver lining: every interaction, every engagement, every mention contributes to your brand awareness.
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Untangling the Costs of Cyber Breach Recovery (and Strategies to Avoid Overbilling)
As cyber threats (and their price tags) evolve, so must the strategies companies use to navigate breach recovery. The future of breach recovery lies in smarter, faster solutions — particularly AI-driven approaches that streamline data mining and ensure breach notification compliance without compromising security or inflating costs.
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Unlocking Your Lawyers' Rainmaking Potential
With law firms continuing to face heightened market and industry pressures, business development is essential for both law firm growth and individual lawyer success. However, coaching lawyers to become effective rainmakers presents unique challenges.
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Second Circuit Reinforces Bankruptcy Code Settlement Payment Safe Harbor
The Second Circuit affirmed the lower courts' judgment that a "transfer made … in connection with a securities contract … by a qualifying financial institution" was entitled "to the protection of ... §546 (e)'s safe harbor ...."
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Compliance and Third-Party Risk Management
To gauge the level of risk and uncover potential gaps, compliance and privacy leaders should collaborate to consider how often they are monitoring third parties, what intelligence they are gathering with and about their partners and vendors, and whether their risk management practices have been diminished due to cost and resource constraints.
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Slight Decrease In Commercial Foreclosures Hints at Market Stabilization
While the commercial real estate market faced significant headwinds in 2024, recent data suggests that the tide may be turning. The combination of lower interest rates, a decline in foreclosures, and improving market conditions offers a glimmer of hope for property owners and investors alike.
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The State of Cost Recovery — Post COVID
Law firm operations are different now. Obviously, the biggest impact of COVID has been the inception and continuation of the hybrid work environment. This has been a kick in the pants for law firms to migrate to a digital working environment
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The Federal Circuit Clarifies Who Can Be an Expert In Patent Cases
In September 2024, the Federal Circuit clarified the necessary qualifications for a technical expert to testify in a patent lawsuit, holding that while an expert must possess ordinary skill in the art, they need not have possessed such skill "at the time of the alleged invention."
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Artist Challenges Copyright Office Refusal to Register AI-Assisted Work
While the Copyright Office has previously cited the "bedrock requirement of copyright" that that a work must have a human author to be eligible for copyright protection to reject registrations, recent decisions have focused on the role of human authorship in the context of AI.
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