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Imitation Is Not Sincerest Form of Flattery for Legal Services Company

By Michelle Onibokun & Julia Milewski on October 17, 2019

Legal services company CBX Law, LLC doing business as Latitude (“Latitude”) brought a lawsuit against alleged copycat company Lexikon Services, LLC in Tennessee state court. Latitude is seeking damages and injunctive relief based on allegations of trade secret misappropriation under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act and Tennessee’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act, breach of contract, intentional interference, and unjust enrichment. Latitude alleged that it identified Austin, Texas as a primary target for expanding its operations…

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Real Lawyers To Stage Road Show at Clio Cloud Conference

By Kevin O'Keefe on October 17, 2019

Real Lawyers will be staging a road show at the Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego next Monday and Tuesday. Real Lawyers has staged road shows in close to 100 cities across the United States, Canada and Europe over the last fifteen years. We’ll be there live video interviewing legal tech entrepreneurs, legal bloggers who are connecting with people and advancing the law, speakers (the likes of whom are not seen at other legal conferences),…

Bob Ambrogi of LawSites and Kevin O’Keefe of Real Lawyers to Provide Complete Coverage of #ClioCloud9

By Melissa Lin on October 17, 2019

The seventh-annual #ClioCloud9 conference, presented by the cloud practice management company Clio, takes place Oct. 21-22 in San Diego, and Real Lawyers and LawSites will be there in full force to conduct live updates and interviews. Now in its 15th year, Real Lawyers, run by LexBlog CEO Kevin O’Keefe, has staged nearly 100 shows in cities across the US, Canada, and Europe highlighting entrepreneurs, Legal Tech founders, and other legal role models.…

Financial services: Regulation tomorrow

The European Commission and the UK Government agree the text of a new Brexit deal

By Simon Lovegrove (UK) & Matthew Gregory (UK) on October 17, 2019

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On 17 October 2019, the European Commission reached an agreement at negotiator level with the UK on a revised Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland and a revised Political Declaration on the framework of the future EU-UK relationship. The revised Protocol is no longer an insurance policy that applies unless and until the EU and the UK conclude a subsequent agreement that replaces it in part or in full. It is a fully legally operative…

Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog

UPDATE: New York Student-Athlete Name, Image, and Likeness Bill Amended (Again)

By Gregg E. Clifton on October 17, 2019

New York State Senator Kevin S. Parker recently introduced his bill, the New York Collegiate Athletic Participation Compensation Act, to provide New York college student-athletes an opportunity to market their name, image, and likeness for economic benefit without affecting either their scholarship benefits or amateur status. Now, he has amended the bill a second time. Initially introduced to mirror the recently passed California Senate Bill 206 (formerly known as the Fair Pay to Play Act),…

Broadcast Law Blog

Facebook Criticized for Not Censoring Candidate Ads – Even Though Congress Requires No Censorship from Broadcasters

By David Oxenford on October 17, 2019

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In recent weeks, Facebook has been criticized for adopting a policy of not censoring advertising and other content posted on its platforms by political candidates. While Facebook apparently will review content whose veracity is challenged when posted by anyone else, it made an exception for posts by political candidates – and has received much heat from many of those candidates, including some who are currently in Congress. In some cases, these criticisms have suggested that…

LawSites

Ahead of #ClioCloud9, Freelance Lawyer Platform LAWCLERK Announces New Features

By Bob Ambrogi on October 17, 2019

Monday brings the kick-off of the seventh annual Clio Cloud Conference, and among the companies that will be exhibiting there is LAWCLERK, a legal services marketplace where solo and small-firm attorneys can hire freelance lawyers for short-term projects. In advance of the conference, LAWCLERK is today announcing new duplication and notification features designed to make it easier for attorneys to post duplicate or recurring projects. It also announced new dashboard notifications to provide…

Drug & Device Law

Eleventh Circuit Allows Trial by Ambush and Bad Science

By Michelle Yeary on October 17, 2019

We aren’t pulling any punches. We think Taylor v. Mentor Worldwide LLC, — F.3d –, 2019 WL 4941936 (11th Cir. Oct. 8, 2019) is a candidate to be one of this year’s DDL Blog bottom ten cases. Not only was plaintiff’s expert allowed to change his opinion at trial, plaintiff was allowed to prevail without demonstrating a threshold level of exposure. Both issues should have sent this case back for a new trial. Instead, we…

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To Bill Allen: A Final Tribute

By Jack B. Jacobs on October 16, 2019

Last weekend the corporate legal community lost one of its finest: former Delaware Chancellor and Professor at New York University School of Law, William T. Allen. For 12 years Bill Allen and I served together as judicial colleagues on the Delaware Court of Chancery. For the two decades thereafter, in his reincarnation as law professor and lawyer, he and I continued our relationship as good personal and professional friends. As a judge and scholar, Bill…

Canadian Labour and Employment Law

Cannabis Edibles, Extracts and Topicals Become Legal in Canada Today

By Ajanthana Anandarajah, Andrew Shaw & Susan MacMillan on October 16, 2019

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On October 18, 2018, Canada legalized the production, distribution and sale of recreational cannabis. Several classes of cannabis became legal including fresh and dried flowers, seeds, plants and oils for recreational purposes. At the time, the federal government set a staggered date for legalizing cannabis derived products, such as edible cannabis, to allow for public consultation. On October 17, 2019, almost a year later, three new classes of cannabis become legal (with amendments to the…