There are many simple risk management techniques that can be taken by any litigation practitioner that can significantly help prevent common legal malpractice claims.

For those who still have not used legal finance or who have not yet come to understand what it can do for them, this article explores three key challenges it can solve, and the value-add it can offer.

Although counsel may not always have a choice of forum, the amendments to New York's "anti-SLAPP" statute that took effect in November 2020 add to the factors that counsel may need to consider when they do have such a choice—and may make New York state court a more attractive forum for defendants (and a less attractive one for plaintiffs). This article explains why.

The case is significant as it not only provides the analytical framework for local governments to guide drafting and passing local ordinances in response to a crisis, but also provides private entities the pleading standard to challenge those pandemic or emergency related laws.