By Lindsay Wuller Aggarwal | November 27, 2024
In May 2024 I launched the parental leave coaching program at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, a confidential coaching program for U.S. lawyers before, during and after parental leave.
By Rob Maier | November 26, 2024
This article discusses the classification of "patent trolls" within the United States patent system.
By Francis Curran | November 22, 2024
For nearly 60 years after the FAA was enacted, the U.S. Supreme Court left the enforceability of arbitration agreements largely undisturbed. However, beginning in the 1980s, the Supreme Court began a shift toward an expansive interpretation of the FAA and stricter enforceability of arbitration agreements.
By Robert J. Jossen | November 22, 2024
An important part of the mediator’s role is that she or he is not an advocate and does not hold a dispositive view about the dispute. As a neutral I often say during a mediation, “I have no stake in who wins or loses and no view of the ultimate merits. All I care about is helping the parties reach an agreement.”
By David Lenefsky | November 21, 2024
St. Ivo was a one-stop, one-person combination of Legal Aid Society and JAMS, providing legal services to the disadvantaged, and mediation and arbitration to antagonistic litigants.
By Martin S. Krezalek | November 20, 2024
Two recent decisions holding that stand-alone websites are not places of public accommodation subject to the protections of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act have reopened a legal issue that many considered settled in the Southern District of New York. This potential trend provides hope for e-commerce businesses facing nuisance website accessibility lawsuits.
By Sondra Mendelson-Toscano | November 18, 2024
“When I ponder whether people truly understand my role in the court system, even those who come in contact with me every day, I realize that the answer is they do not.”
By Evan A. Davis | November 14, 2024
Among the positive far reaching consequences of the Equal Rights Amendment is a fix that makes New York's Bill of Rights self-executing, writes a former counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo who was involved in talks to esatablish the terms of the amendment.
By Rich Harper | November 14, 2024
While perhaps not as attention grabbing as those copyright cases, trade secret law—developed over decades through common law decisions and state and federal statutes—will likely be one of the key areas of law where stakeholders work to protect, or in some cases protect against, evolving AI technology.
By Aaron Solomon and Alisha Talati | November 13, 2024
Guthrie not only increases the threshold for establishing “concrete harm” for standing purposes, it also notes that the mere fact that a person’s ability to pursue enforcement of a statutorily guaranteed right does not automatically confer standing in other matters.
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