Challenges In Being a Pro Sports General Counsel
January 01, 2022
Being a general counsel for a professional sports team is a coveted gig, but it's also a job with unique challenges, potential ethical minefields and scandals lurking around the front office, field, stadium and elsewhere.
Real Property Law
January 01, 2022
Encroachment By Party Wall Will Not Support a Notice of Pendency
Questions of Fact Remain In Party Wall Dispute
Easement Was Only for Access
Seller's Failure to Provide Estoppel Certificates Excuses Purchaser from Performing
Equitable Title Claim Upheld
Bringing 5-Star Hospitality to Law Firms
January 01, 2022
The law firm office cannot remain unchanged, therefore, as if frozen in time set to some date prior to the onset of pandemic, when all the terms and meaning have all changed. In fact, the office must now provide benefits or an experience the lawyers and staff cannot get at home.
With 'Great Resignation', Corporations Need to Prepare for the Great Investigation
January 01, 2022
Major crisis events, such as political uprisings or financial downturns, are typically followed by an increase in fraud in the business sector and heightened risk to corporate IP and other sensitive information. Anecdotally, this seems to be proving out again in the recent and ongoing fallout from the pandemic. Even before this Great Resignation movement, corporations across the globe were reporting increases in suspicious activity, data leakage, IP theft and other data risks stemming from departing employees and remote workers.
'Never Trust, Always Verify': Zero Trust Security
January 01, 2022
Recognizing the ever-increasing cyber threats to businesses, government entities, and individuals, the White House announced that Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must migrate toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Architecture by September 2024. Under Zero Trust, trust is the ultimate vulnerability of any system and, therefore, trust has to be eliminated from a business' cybersecurity approach.
Enforcement of Obligations Imposed In SEQRA Findings Statements
January 01, 2022
When, at the culmination of environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), a municipality resolves to require a developer to ameliorate environmental impacts, can anyone other than the municipality itself enforce the requirement?
Fresh Filings
January 01, 2022
Notable court filings in entertainment law.
Landlord & Tenant Law
January 01, 2022
Nonpayment Proceeding Not Available for Use and Occupancy
Questions of Fact About Whether Landlord Accepted Surrender
Improper Withholding of Consent Does Not Excuse Guarantor
Loft Board's Rejection of Abandonment Petition Upheld
