January 24, 2023 | Texas Lawyer
Favorable Public Policies Drive Uptick in Patent Applications for Hydrogen InnovationsThe new technologies being developed address hydrogen generation, storage, and distribution, as well as consumer products such as hydrogen-fueled vehicles and their specific components. In tandem, there has been a dramatic uptick in patent applications to protect these technologies and the considerable investments being made to create them.
By Liz Flannery and Thomas Carter
7 minute read
January 23, 2023 | Texas Lawyer
The Global Energy Transition: A Roundtable on Related DisputesBurford Capital's Christiane Deniger and Matt Lee spoke with a group of energy dispute experts in November 2022 about the effects of the energy transition on commercial disputes, the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and supply chain issues and the use of legal finance in the sector.
By Christiane Deniger and Matt Lee
12 minute read
January 23, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The NY Senate Should Have Voted on Justice LaSalleIn failing to consider and vote upon the nomination, the full senate has abrogated its duty under the state constitution, which requires advice and consent by "the senate," not one of its committees.
By Jerry H. Goldfeder
6 minute read
January 23, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
BAR REPORT - Jan. 23, 2023This week's Capitol Report ('Madden' assignment system should be abolished, says NJSBA); Dedicated to service: Get to know the NJSBA Pro Bono Award winners for 2022; Board of Trustees Awards recognize excellence in advocacy, leadership.
By New Jersey State Bar Association
12 minute read
January 23, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Ninth Circuit Limits Extraterritorial Reach of Trafficking Victims Protection ActThe TVPA has been amended several times. Two relatively recent amendments provide a private right of action for victims under 18 U.S.C. §1595, as well as extraterritorial application to offenses taking place outside the United States under 18 U.S.C. §1596. The most recent circuit court to offer its reading of these provisions is the Ninth Circuit in 'Keo Ratha v. Phatthana Seafood Co., Ltd.'
By Samuel Estreicher and Anuja Chowdhury
9 minute read
January 23, 2023 | New York Law Journal
It Is Time for States To Protect CitizensWhile the Court's decisions surely haven't caused the epidemic of firearm deaths, they make it all but impossible for the states to regulate guns in a way that would effectively reduce the number of such deaths.
By Steven Goldman
7 minute read
January 23, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
New Jersey Judicial Vacancy Affects Potential Law Clerks"We cannot ignore the impact on recent law graduates in having such a significant number of jobs foreclosed simply because a judge has not been chosen to fill a seat on the bench."
By NJLJ Young Lawyers Advisory Board
4 minute read
January 20, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle To Save AmericaThe book presents an inspiring account of how resourceful women promoted fairness and "paddled furiously to protect constitutional democracy" during the Trump years.
By Jeffrey M. Winn
8 minute read
January 20, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Getting Out of Commercial Leases Under the New Bankruptcy CodeIf a small business is a party to a lease that it wants to abandon, the Bankruptcy Code provides the company with the potential to avoid the legal obligations under this lease.
By Eric Snyder
5 minute read
January 20, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Never-Never Land Revisited: NYSBA Again Addresses Partnerships With Non-LawyersOpinion 1246 is important because, without withdrawing any of the earlier opinions that limit the ability of New York lawyers to become partners of non-lawyers, even overseas, except in narrow circumstances where the New York lawyer practices outside New York, the new opinion cautiously opens the door to some such arrangements.
By Anthony E. Davis
7 minute read