Daily Report Online | Best Practices|Commentary
By Michelle Davis | September 13, 2023
Force majeure is lurking in the shadows of the Hollywood strikes, offering struggling studios a potential lifeline out of debt. But the best attorneys and the strongest contracts are proactive, rather than reactive. Thus, consider the following drafting tips to strengthen your force majeure language now, in the calm before the next storm.
By William Bogdan | July 12, 2023
Because a construction worker swore the only place he could have contracted COVID-19 was at his jobsite, and his spouse two counties away swore the only place on the planet she could have contracted COVID-19 was from her husband, she sued her husband's employer for not protecting her from the virus at home.
By Bijal V. Vakil | June 21, 2023
Bijal V. Vakil, founding partner of Allen & Overy's Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices, explains how rising numbers of minority partners at leading law firms are masking a more significant challenge for the whole industry.
Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Joshua M. Peck | May 4, 2023
"It doesn't mean anything," said the attorney, who has been listed in the Chambers and Partners Guides more than 20 times over the course of his career. "I know people who've been listed for years who just aren't very good litigators any more, and some of them never were. They've lost 20 miles off their fastball, metaphorically speaking, but they're still in there."
Daily Report Online | Commentary|Expert Opinion
By Thaddeus L. Johnson and Natasha N. Johnson | March 10, 2023
With a steep decline in the drug imprisonment gap between Black and white Americans—from 15 to 1 in 2000 to just under 4 to 1 in 2019—the biggest racial disparity now exists among people incarcerated for violent felony offenses.
By Alex Reese and Raven Quesenberry | December 22, 2022
The case law is still unsettled, but some rules of thumb are starting to emerge, says Alex Reese is a partner and Raven Quesenberry of Farella Braun + Martel.
By Patrick Hammon | August 25, 2022
Just like the Secret Service text messages concerning the Jan. 6 insurrection, deleted communications may be perfectly innocuous, but the act of deletion may be more concerning than the underlying data itself.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Robert W. Clarida and Thomas Kjellberg | May 19, 2022
The decision articulates the current state of Ninth Circuit law regarding the threshold of protectable originality in music infringement cases, and because so many music cases are brought in the Ninth Circuit the ruling will likely be significant to music litigators nationwide.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Nicholas J. Pappas | August 3, 2021
In his Employment Law column, Nicholas J. Pappas discusses several statutes enacted by the California legislature in the past couple of years that employers should consider if they wish to comply with California law and avoid unexpected and often expensive employment law claims.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Shari Claire Lewis | April 19, 2021
In this edition of her Internet Issues/Social Media column, Shari Claire Lewis briefly describes the state of Communications Decency Act §230 in the Second Circuit, focusing on §230(c)(1), and explores the court's recent decision in 'Domen v. Vimeo', a rare decision involving CDA §230(c)(2), and its implications.
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