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The Recorder

An M&A Lawyer's Insight Into Earth's Challenges From Outer Space

The business of space tourism is on the rise, and plans for expanding this novel form of escape are underway.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Digital Right To Repair Expands to Influential State of California

On Oct. 10, California's governor approved California's Right to Repair Act with is broader than New York's similar one. This article provides an overview and analysis.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

Force Majeure Clauses Taking Center Stage in Uncertain Times

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.
8 minute read

The Recorder

A Pair Beats Four of a Kind: Take-Home COVID and the 'Rowland' Duty Factors

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.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Real Diversity = Providing the Opportunity to Lead

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.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Big Law Litigator Scoffs at the Chambers Guides That Honor Him

"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."
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Biggest Racial Gap in Prison Is Among Violent Offenders

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.
8 minute read

The Recorder

What Recent Rulings in 'hiQ v. LinkedIn' and Other Cases Say About the Legality of Data Scraping

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.
5 minute read

The Recorder

'Show Me Your Texts': Discovery Challenges for Cellphone Data

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.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Gray v. Hudson' Rules on Copyrightability of Musical Elements

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.
9 minute read

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