Alex Brown

August 08, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

To shield against—or outright avoid—liability for ads featuring endorsements, shrewd in-house counsel should follow these five compliance best practices below, gleaned from the Endorsement Guides, the proposed reviews rule and the recent enforcement efforts.

By Alex Brown, Kathleen Benway, and Andrew Mueller

6 minute read

September 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Courts have generally found that make-whole provisions do not provide for the payment of unmatured interest, nor are they unenforceable liquidated damages provisions. It would behoove the court in 'Ultra Petroleum' to continue the precedent on these issues, because failure to do so would call into question the ever-important principle that when evaluating documents governed by New York law, courts will generally defer to the mutual intent of the parties as manifested within the four corners of the document.

By Ed Christian, Mark Sherrill and Alex Brown

7 minute read

April 04, 2015 | Daily Business Review

Copyright decisions aren't big on protecting costumes, so Orlando figurine maker Fernando Sosa maybe able to beat back Katy Perry's legal team at Greenberg Traurig.

By Alex Brown and Scott Smiley

5 minute read

April 03, 2015 | Daily Business Review

Copyright decisions aren't big on protecting costumes, so Orlando figurine maker Fernando Sosa maybe able to beat back Katy Perry's legal team at Greenberg Traurig.

By Alex Brown and Scott Smiley

5 minute read

March 31, 2015 | Daily Business Review

In one of the highest profile music-related copyright infringement lawsuits, recording stars Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were slammed with a $7.4 million jury verdict after being accused of plagiarizing their chart topping hit song "Blurred Lines" from Marvin Gaye's 1977 Motown hit "Got to Give it Up."

By Alex Brown and Scott Smiley

4 minute read

March 31, 2015 | Daily Business Review

In one of the highest profile music-related copyright infringement lawsuits, recording stars Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were slammed with a $7.4 million jury verdict after being accused of plagiarizing their chart topping hit song "Blurred Lines" from Marvin Gaye's 1977 Motown hit "Got to Give it Up."

By Alex Brown and Scott Smiley

4 minute read

May 13, 2014 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. Supreme Court's drastic change in the fee-shifting standard is likely to increase the number of instances in which trial courts award a prevailing party the recovery of its attorneys' fees and deter abusive litigation, writes Alex Brown of Tripp Scott.

By Alex Brown

4 minute read