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New York Law Journal

Customer Agreements at the Intersection of Data and AI: Managing Risk and Preserving Value

Whether a provider or a consumer of data and AI services, companies must think through intellectual property and related contractual risks—both retrospectively, in terms of legacy customer agreements and prospectively, in terms of reworking them.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Court Revives Contract Claims Against 2 Lawyers Accused of Providing Ineffective Counsel

"The agreement is for you to do the job at a professional standard. I don't think that's a surprise," Ellen Brotman said. "It sounds like the attorneys here had a creative argument about why that isn't so or wasn't so in this case, and the court didn't accept it."
3 minute read

Law.com

Clemson University, Atlantic Coast Conference Battle Over $140M Exit Penalty, Media Rights

The university also asked the court to declare the ACC's $140 million penalty to any university leaving the conference void by public policy and legally unenforceable. Clemson said the penalty imposes a nonexistent fiduciary duty on not only the university, but all conference members.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Key Delaware Decision in 'Activision' Upends Standard Board Practices for Approving Mergers

This article lays out practice points in response to the Delaware Court of Chancery's recent decision in In Ap-Fonden v. Activision, which opens a new frontier for challenging a board's process in approving mergers. It discusses the significance the decision has on the merger agreement processes as well as what practitioners should consider moving forward as they navigate this decision.
18 minute read

New York Law Journal

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You!

In their Law Firm Partnership Law column, Arthur Ciampi and Maria Ciampi ring some warning bells regarding potentially harmful law firm partnership agreement provisions in the hope of keeping our readers out of harm's way.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Blank Rome Files Trade Secrets Suit Against Former J&J Employee for Departing to Pfizer

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide. Sign up today and be among the first to know about new suits in your region, practice area or client sector.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Delaware Court Invalidates Portions of Stockholder Agreement

A Delaware Court of Chancery decision to invalidate significant portions of a stockholder agreement could have a marked impact on public companies, impacting M&A activities such as joint ventures, settlements with activist investors and minority venture capital investments.
7 minute read

Law.com

Sui Generis: Draft Leases Like You Mean It

The automatic acceptance of various boilerplate clauses in commercial leases in the face of jurisprudential modernity and evolving legal approaches is dangerous. The evolutionary exploits of a commercial lease aren't done yet, nor should they be.
8 minute read

Law.com

CuraLinc Sues Former Employee Over Negative Glassdoor Review

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

'You Can't Do That': Florida Court Sets Precedent in Condo Litigation

"Developers better be darn careful because this is going to cost them millions and millions of dollars," said Glen Waldman, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale.
4 minute read

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