Let's Do Lunch!
March 01, 2024
Is the lunch meeting still a thing? Is it a lost art? A lost opportunity?
Landmines In Bankruptcy Appellate Practice, Part III
March 01, 2024
When courts have made important exceptions in the past year, they have either added a gloss on the Judicial Code, corrected lawyers' errors, filled in statutory gaps, or clarified the relevant statutory language.
Guarantor Liability for Post-Window-Period Rent
March 01, 2024
In a case of first impression, the Appellate Division, First Department recently addressed a split in the decisions of the lower courts as to the scope of the New York City Guaranty Law.
Development
March 01, 2024
Boathouse Not an Impermissible Second Dwelling
Reduction In Size Did Not Alter Nonconforming Use Status
Local Ordinance Did Not Prohibit Short-Term Rentals
All the News That's Fit to Pinch: 'NYT v. OpenAI'
February 01, 2024
The emerging cases by authors and copyright owners challenging various generative AI programs for using copyrighted materials are certain to create new troubles for the courts being asked to apply the fair use doctrine to this important new technology.
Content-Licensing Payment Dispute Involves Whether Fiduciary Relationship Was Created
February 01, 2024
A recent New York federal court decision in a dispute between a broker that sublicenses program content and a broadcaster that sublicensed content from the broker considered the interaction of contract language and extra-contractual elements of the parties' relationship to determine whether a fiduciary relationship existed.
All the News That's Fit to Pinch
February 01, 2024
The emerging cases by authors and copyright owners challenging various generative AI programs for using copyrighted materials are certain to create new troubles for the courts being asked to apply the fair use doctrine to this important new technology.
The Stranger to the Deed Rule
February 01, 2024
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.
How AI Has Affected PR
February 01, 2024
When we consider how the use of AI affects legal PR and communications, we have to look at it as an industrywide global phenomenon. A recent online conference provided an overview of the latest AI trends in public relations, and specifically, the impact of AI on communications. Here are some of the key points and takeaways from several of the speakers, who provided current best practices, tips, concerns and case studies.
