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Tax, Real Estate/Development

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

Mar. 19, 2020
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

Mar. 19, 2020
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

Mar. 19, 2020
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

On Feb. 26, the SEC disapproved a proposal by the NYSE Arca exchange to list and trade the United States Bitcoin and Treasury ...


Law Practice

The lag is real

Mar. 18, 2020
By Jacqueline Goodman

We are in the throes of a deadly worldwide pandemic. Make no mistake, COVID-19 is already here. It has a substantial incubatio...


Law Practice

End jury service now

Mar. 18, 2020
By Erwin Chemerinsky

Our state courts are needlessly endangering lives and risking spreading the coronavirus by continuing to require prospective j...


Law Practice

How trial lawyers can manage the coronavirus

Mar. 18, 2020
By Mike Arias

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

Mar. 18, 2020
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?

Mar. 18, 2020
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

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

Mar. 18, 2020
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

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

Mar. 18, 2020
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

Mar. 18, 2020
By Josepher Li

Copyright claimants beware, accused infringers be aware.


Intellectual Property, Health Care & Hospital Law

AI’s growing impact in health science

Mar. 18, 2020
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

Mar. 18, 2020
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

Mar. 18, 2020
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

Mar. 18, 2020
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?

Mar. 18, 2020
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

Mar. 18, 2020
By Sarah S. Brooks, Adam W. Kwon

Proper patent venue remains uncertain in 2020.


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation

Earlier this month, the federal district court in Vermont denied Netflix’s motion to dismiss a trademark infringement case aga...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation

The PTAB downturn

Mar. 18, 2020
By Brenton R. Babcock

Recalibration in an evolving IP environment.


Corporate

California’s groundbreaking gender parity law for public company boards has now been in effect for its first full year. While ...


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

Mar. 17, 2020
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

Mar. 17, 2020
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’?

Mar. 17, 2020
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

Mar. 16, 2020
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 ...


Insurance

The virus has infected several hundred thousand people worldwide. As a result of the outbreak, there have been suspensions of ...