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Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I was looking through disciplinary reports from 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago and there does not seem to have been nearly as much professional discipline for attorneys as there is now. Were lawyers just better behaved? What is the reason?
11 minute read

International Edition

Cutting Cookies: France's Fight Against Google and Amazon

France is a battlefield for the question: are cookie-walls allowed under EU data protection law or not?
4 minute read

International Edition

Disaster Averted, Questions Remain: A Greenberg Traurig Partner On the LIBOR Transition

Greenberg shareholder Oscar Stephens discusses the likely impact of LIBOR cessation.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Dram Shop Act: Boats, Motorcycles, ATVs and Snowmobiles

New York's Dram Shop Act makes it illegal for commercial vendors to serve alcohol to persons, who are "visibly intoxicated" or under the age of 21. The majority of cases arise when an intoxicated patron leaves the establishment in a car and causes an accident. Liability is not limited, however, to accidents involving cars but has been extended to include boats, motorcycles, ATVs, and snowmobiles.
6 minute read

International Edition

Expanding Your Law Firm Globally? How to Make it a Success

All growth opportunities come with risks and expanding abroad is a particularly complex move for law firms.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Looking Forward—Regulatory Enforcement Expectations in a Biden Administration

As companies prepare for potential changes to the regulatory enforcement landscape in a Biden administration and assess the risks and challenges ahead, it is important to evaluate how enforcement is likely to change—and how it might remain the same.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses the landlord-tenant case 'Avignone v. Valigorski.'
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

COVID-19 Defenses: Case Law Update

In their last column, Warren A. Estis and Alexander Lycoyannis discussed the COVID defenses of impossibility and frustration of purpose and analyzed two of the first known decisions applying them in commercial landlord-tenant disputes during the pandemic. Here, they summarize four recent lower court rulings applying the COVID defenses in commercial landlord-tenant cases.
7 minute read

International Edition

Legal Networks as Global Service Providers: Lessons Learned and a Look Ahead

The value of global legal networks was tested by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly a year later, lawyers say the network model for providing global legal services is stronger than ever.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses "Avail Holding LLC v. Ramos," where the court awarded attorney fees based on quality of work product and extensive experience, and "G Family Holdings LLC v. Washington-West 11th St. Owners Corp.," where defendants were denied reargument on the issue regarding a surviving private nuisance claim.
13 minute read

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