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Implications of Transfer of Attorney-Client Privilege In Bankruptcy Cases
January 01, 2021
One of the most misunderstood areas of law for non-bankruptcy and bankruptcy attorneys alike is the attorney-client privilege, including the scope of the privilege, who holds it, and when and by whom it can be waived. As is often the case, in bankruptcy, additional complexities arise.
Second Circuit Ruling on Personal Benefit Test Widens Scope of Criminal Insider Trading
January 01, 2021
The holding in Blaszczak significantly widens the scope of criminal insider trading. It also creates the anomaly of extending the criminal law beyond the SEC's civil enforcement authority.
COVID-19 Forcing Firms to Keep Work In-House
January 01, 2021
Legal departments have been reducing outside counsel spending amid the COVID-19 pandemic and keeping more work in-house, where the demand for specialists and legal operations managers continues to grow, according to a new report.
IP News
January 01, 2021
Federal Circuit: Post-Employment Assignment Clause Void Under California Law Federal Circuit No New Trial for Improper "Pennies on the Dollar" Rhetoric
Bankruptcy Court Responses to COVID-19 Relief Orders
January 01, 2021
The economic impact of COVID-19-related shutdown orders, and the governmental directives, raise questions of how bankruptcy courts will respond.
Fair Use Applied to Embedded Photograph
January 01, 2021
The extremely flexible character of social media has required equal flexibility in courts' intellectual property analysis. Happily, under U.S. copyright law, that kind of flexibility is possible.
'Frustration' and 'Impossibility': Viable Defenses Amid the Pandemic?
January 01, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying economic fallout continue to unfold, commercial tenants have increasingly come to rely on the common law doctrines of impossibility of performance and frustration of purpose as defenses to the nonpayment of rent.
Equal Justice Should Apply to All, Including the President's Friends
January 01, 2021
This article considers certain positions taken by DOJ in cases involving Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and the subpoenas duces tecum issued by the New York District Attorney's Office in connection with its investigation into the Trump Organization.
The Open Window to Your World: Smartphone Security in the Age of COVID
December 01, 2020
Industry developments this year add concern over connected devices and information tracking. New Smartphones include an app for COVID exposures, which can lead to privacy issues.
How U.S. Court Ruled Whether France's Right of Publicity Law Is Descendible
December 01, 2020
Battles over celebrities' estates often end up in litigation, but a recent court ruling involving the estate of French oceanic explorer, environmentalist and documentary filmmaker Jacques Cousteau included a not-often-seen right of publicity consideration: how a U.S. court determines whether right-of-publicity protection in another nation is descendible.

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