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December 10, 2019

There are only a few weeks left in the year, and although conferences are winding down, you may be planning your 2020 calendar already (or getting in a few last networking opportunities!). Even when you’re an old hand at attending events, we can always use a refresher on tips for attending events and how to make the most of the networking opportunities they present. Here are some quick tips for making the most out of…

Trading Secrets

Supreme Court of Kentucky Rules That Firms May Require Lawyers to Sign Non-Solicitation Agreements That Exempt Legal Work

By Erik Weibust & Andrew Stark

December 10, 2019

A law firm can terminate an at-will lawyer who refuses to sign an agreement prohibiting them from soliciting the firm’s customers or clients following cessation of employment, according to the Supreme Court of Kentucky. In Greissman v. Rawlings and Associates, PLLC, the court held that where a non-solicitation agreement included a savings clause which excepted the solicitation of legal work from where “to the extent necessary to comply with the rules of professional responsibility…

Briefing: Governance

What Risk Trends in 2020 Should Be on Directors and Officers’ Radar Screens?

By Betty Moy Huber & Paula H. Simpkins

December 10, 2019

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Last week, a global insurance company identified what it believes are the risk trends in 2020 that “have significant implications” to directors and officers (D&Os). The firm’s perspective provides a window into the types of trends insurers and underwriters are watching. 1. “Bad news” events resulting in more litigation The insurer notes that there has been a rise in nonfinancial-based claims against D&Os stemming from what the firm calls “bad news” events, such as cybersecurity…

TechLaw Crossroads

The Elon Musk Verdict: Some Cases Have to Be Tried

By Stephen Embry

December 10, 2019

As has been widely reported, it’s no secret that the number of actual jury trials have declined precipitously in recent years. Too much risk. Discovery costs–particularly those associated with electronic discovery–have made the pretrial process simply too expensive. And there is a reluctance by some to trust juries with what they believe are complicated issues. The result: more cases are settled, typically in mediation. But here is the rub. Without trials-and enough trials…

Global Policy Watch

The global business and human rights landscape: a “smart mix” of state measures and the challenges for multinational businesses

By Hannah Edmonds-Camara & Daniel Feldman

December 10, 2019

In Part One of our blog series to honour the UN’s World Human Rights Day, we consider the evolving business and human rights landscape and some of the challenges this presents for multinations. This piece was first published in the U.K.’s Law Society Gazette on 10 December 2019. The theme of this year’s UN Forum on Business and Human Rights was ‘Time to act: Governments as catalysts for business respect for human rights.’ This annual…

Global Policy Watch

New Challenges for European Defense

By Jean De Ruyt

December 10, 2019

Two days before NATO celebrated its seventieth anniversary in Watford, close to London on December 3–4, Ursula Von Der Leyen started her 5 years as president of the European Commission. She had announced that her Commission would be ‘geopolitical’, and appointed a commissioner, the French Thierry Breton, to deal with ‘Defense Industry and Space’, among other responsibilities. A month before the NATO summit, France’s president Emmanuel Macron, in a now-famous interview with the Economist, had…

Michael Geist

Taking Value out of the Copyright Tariff Process: The Copyright Board’s Access Copyright Post-Secondary Tariff Decision

By Michael Geist

December 10, 2019

In March 2010, Access Copyright filed a tariff proposal with the Copyright Board to cover copying at post-secondary institutions in Canada. The proposed rate was $45 per year per university student and $35 per year per college student. The proposal represented a dramatic increase in the fees paid under the Access Copyright licence, which, when combined with Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence on fair dealing in the 2004 CCH decision and the growing investment in…

Food Safety News

Company recalls fresh fruit from hospitals, schools, etc., amid Salmonella Javiana outbreak

By News Desk

December 9, 2019

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As promised, a New Jersey company is recalling pre-cut fresh fruit from hospitals, schools and other institutions because of a link to a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 30. Tailor Cut Produce is recalling its Fruit luau, cut honeydew, cut cantaloupe and cut pineapple products, according to a company notice posted by the Food and Drug Administration. Pennsylvania officials announced on Saturday, Dec. 7, that the company’s fruit had been linked to an…

LawSites

Breaking: Fastcase and Casemaker Settle Copyright Litigation over Georgia Regs

By Bob Ambrogi

December 9, 2019

The two legal research companies Fastcase and Casemaker have settled their three-year legal battle over Casemaker’s claims of copyright in Georgia administrative regulations. In federal court in Atlanta, the two companies jointly filed a stipulated dismissal of the matter. The request did not not reveal the terms of the settlement, but the dismissal was “with prejudice,” meaning the matter cannot be refiled at a later date. I have reached out to both companies for comment…

Steptoe Cyberblog

Episode 292: Debating FISA 215 after Pensacola

By Stewart Baker

December 9, 2019

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The apparent terror attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola spurs a debate among our panelists about whether the FISA Section 215 metadata program deserves to be killed, as Congress has increasingly signaled it intends to do. If the Pensacola attack involved multiple parties acting across US borders, still a live possibility as we talked, then it would be just about the first such attacks since 9/11 – and exactly the kind of attack the…

Featured Posts

13 Best Practices for Attending Conferences

Supreme Court of Kentucky Rules That Firms May Require Lawyers to Sign Non-Solicitation Agreements That Exempt Legal Work

What Risk Trends in 2020 Should Be on Directors and Officers’ Radar Screens?

The Elon Musk Verdict: Some Cases Have to Be Tried

The global business and human rights landscape: a “smart mix” of state measures and the challenges for multinational businesses

New Challenges for European Defense

Taking Value out of the Copyright Tariff Process: The Copyright Board’s Access Copyright Post-Secondary Tariff Decision

Company recalls fresh fruit from hospitals, schools, etc., amid Salmonella Javiana outbreak

Breaking: Fastcase and Casemaker Settle Copyright Litigation over Georgia Regs

Episode 292: Debating FISA 215 after Pensacola

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