Tax, Real Estate/Development
Qualified opportunity zone projects have ‘up to’ 24 more months due to COVID-19
By Andrew Gradman
On March 13, President Donald Trump declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a nationwide emergency. This declaration has importan...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation in the time of coronavirus
By Howard B. Miller
With the growing reluctance for in person meetings there has been a demand for mediation done remotely with online video. Seen...
Corporate, Contracts
Surviving a pandemic: Dust off the force majeure clause
By Alyssa Shauer, Whitney Roy
A global outbreak of COVID-19 or the novel coronavirus has hit the United States and is wreaking even greater havoc on many of...
Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law
Workers compensation and COVID-19
By Keith P. More, Matthew W. Clark
COVID-19, as a widespread infectious disease, is likely to be considered a nonoccupational disease — one that is normally not ...
Securities
SEC’s current leadership rejects yet another Bitcoin ETF with strong dissent for change
By W. Hardy Callcott, Lilya Tessler
On Feb. 26, the SEC disapproved a proposal by the NYSE Arca exchange to list and trade the United States Bitcoin and Treasury ...
We are in the throes of a deadly worldwide pandemic. Make no mistake, COVID-19 is already here. It has a substantial incubatio...
Our state courts are needlessly endangering lives and risking spreading the coronavirus by continuing to require prospective j...
From 9/11 to the Great Recession, our nation and our legal system have faced multiple "nightmare" situations over the last 20 ...
Coping with the coronavirus in the workplace
By Eli M. Kantor, Jonathan D. Kantor
With the global pandemic of the Corona Virus, President Trump has declared a national state of emergency. Employers may have t...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
Gaga for PAGA? Maybe not so fast?
By Steven B. Katz, Naveen Kabir
The California Supreme Court recently held that an employee could settle and release all of his or her Labor Code claims, and ...
Intellectual Property, Alternative Dispute Resolution
The unique advantages of early mediation in IP disputes
By Frank Busch
We live in a world where intellectual property is often a company’s most valuable asset, where keeping that property secret i...
U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
Oracle v Google: APIs are copyrightable
By Marc Lewis
After nearly 10 years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court will finally address the landmark copyright questions posed in Ora...
Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
Arthrex v Smith & Nephew: Is the sky falling, or is it business as usual at the PTAB?
By Pilar Stillwater, Molly A. Jones
A three-judge panel of the Federal Circuit held that the process by which the secretary of Commerce appoints administrative pa...
Intellectual Property, Criminal
Recent criminal enforcement of trade secret protection
By Katherine D. Prescott
Trade secret theft has long been a crime. The Economic Espionage Act prohibits trade secret misappropriation for the benefit o...
U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
Inaccuracies in copyright registration
By Josepher Li
Copyright claimants beware, accused infringers be aware.
Intellectual Property, Health Care & Hospital Law
AI’s growing impact in health science
By Paul S. Hunter
Artificial intelligence applied to the health sciences refers to the use of complex algorithms to emulate human cognition in t...
Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
2019 patent litigation year in review
By Richard S.J. Hung, Bita Rahebi
Last year struck many as a quiet year in patent law.
U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
High court to rule on Lanham Act remedies
By Daniel C. DeCarlo
A vexing problem for trademark litigants has been evaluating when the profits of an infringer are an available remedy. There h...
Intellectual Property
IP issues with emerging automotive and mobility technology
By Brent A. Hawkins, James J. Kritsas
When you unpack a connected vehicle, you will find an astonishing convergence of technologies.
Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
Data privacy: Which laws should I comply with?
By Vito Costanzo
While the European Union has had the benefit of an expansive data protection regulatory framework for four years, the United S...
Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
Serving server farms
By Sarah S. Brooks, Adam W. Kwon
Proper patent venue remains uncertain in 2020.
Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation
Netflix battle levels up in ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ case
By Dana Brody-Brown
Earlier this month, the federal district court in Vermont denied Netflix’s motion to dismiss a trademark infringement case aga...
Recalibration in an evolving IP environment.
California’s groundbreaking gender parity law for public company boards has now been in effect for its first full year. While ...
Corporate
Does a non-managing member of an LLC owe a fiduciary duty to the other members?
By Bruce Isaacs
Whether or not fiduciary duties arise at all depends upon the structure of the LLC and who, in particular, is designated as th...
Labor/Employment, Alternative Dispute Resolution
New statutes and decisions impact L&E mediations
By Louis M. Marlin
The purpose of this article is not to concentrate on the meaning of new statues and significant wage and hour decisions made i...
Tax, Corporate
The safest income tax plan for a closely held business
By Bruce Givner, Owen Kaye
Income tax planning can be controversial. The most recent IRS “Dirty Dozen” list includes structures designed to reduce your o...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Constitutional Law
Are our faithless electors ‘free agents’?
By David G. Post
Who are those “electors,” anyway? And what, exactly, do they do?
U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Constitutional Law
Arguments shed light on justices’ thinking in Seila v. CFPB
By Blaine H. Evanson, Lochlan F. Shelfer
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in one of the most highly anticipated separation-of-powers cases in ...
The virus has infected several hundred thousand people worldwide. As a result of the outbreak, there have been suspensions of ...