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Ninth Circuit Issues Decision on Trade Secret Injunctive Relief
April 01, 2022
Earlier this year, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision affirming a district court's denial of an injunction following a finding of trade secret misappropriation. While the opinion is designated as unpublished — and therefore not precedential — the panel's reasoning sheds light on an important issue in trade secrets remedies.
Law Firms Are Using Clawback Provisions to Stop Lateral Departures
April 01, 2022
As law firms face mounting pressure from the talent wars, many are attaching strings to their partnership agreements in order to protect their partnerships and forestall lateral departures in a high-demand market.
Second Circuit 'Connolly' Ruling Shows Limits of Mail and Wire Fraud Statutes
April 01, 2022
The Connolly decision draws attention to the limits of the mail/wire fraud statutes — laws that are quite expansive but can also be stretched too far when applied to conduct in financial markets, especially markets tied to opaque rules and practices.
7 Concerns for Commercial Real Estate Investors In a Volatile Market
April 01, 2022
It appears that the CRE industry is entering a period of high volatility with the Fed promising to raise interest rates, soaring inflation, the war in…
Players on the Move
April 01, 2022
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
SEC Proposed Rules Include Disclosure of Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Strategy
April 01, 2022
Cybersecurity compliance, already an anxiety-inducing topic for many in-house counsel, is about to get even trickier. The SEC rolled out a host of proposed new cybersecurity rules for public companies.
Wrestling With the Meaning of 'Ordinary' Under the Bankruptcy Code
April 01, 2022
The Bankruptcy Code protects regular, ordinary commercial transactions between distressed companies and vendors willing to continue the relationship. But what is ordinary?
Comic Legends' Estates Say Pandora Streamed Routines Without License
April 01, 2022
In dual lawsuits, the estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin accuse Pandora Media of willfully infringing the legendary comedians' registered copyrights in their "spoken word compositions" — their standup routines — by streaming the sound recordings that embody those routines without a license to use these works.
What Can the Legal Industry Learn from Baseball's Labor Dispute?
April 01, 2022
Major League Baseball just resolved a contentious dispute between owners and the players union over revenue; both parties had been at odds about how to split up the pie. The challenge of splitting up the pie in law firms is going to become an increasing issue in coming years and perhaps even later in 2022 — particularly if the pie doesn't keep growing.
While Associate Salaries Rise to Fight Talent War, Counsel Are Asking, 'Where's Mine?'
April 01, 2022
Uncertainty at most firms has led some Big Law counsel to become unhappy or disgruntled. They may be working the same long hours as their firms' associates, but, in some cases, they're now making less than lawyers with less experience. As a result, many counsel have been reaching out to recruiters.

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