Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC – The shale boom has given rise to another, less welcome boom: the bankruptcy boom. Thirty-five exploration and production (“E&P”) companies sought bankruptcy protection between July 1, 2014, and December 31, 2015, and this appears to be only the tip of the iceberg. According to Deloitte, 35 percent of the […]
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP The U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) last week launched an investigation into United States Steel Corporation’s (“U.S. Steel”) complaint that Chinese hackers stole trade secret information—including proprietary methods for making lightweight steel—on behalf of Chinese steel producers. In its complaint filed with the ITC last month, U.S. Steel alleged
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Baker & McKenzie – In the U.S. alone, trade secret theft costs innovators an estimated $450 billion per year and constitutes a threat to U.S. security and the U.S. economy. Thanks to increasing employee mobility, data transfer capabilities, and globalization, trade secret loss is a growing threat to innovators worldwide. U.S. courts have recognized the
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Slaughter & May – The issue of whether hyperlinking falls within the scope of copyright protection is of fundamental importance to all those who use the internet. Two years after the ECJ considered the legality of hyperlinking in the case of Svensson (C-466/12), the Advocate General (AG) has delivered its opinion in GS Media BV
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP On May 10, 2016, the French Competition Authority and German Federal Cartel Office published “Competition Law and Data,” a joint report on big data and its implications for competition law. The paper identifies issues that antitrust authorities should consider when assessing the interplay among big data, market power
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Proskauer – On May 26, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that friends’ gifts of wine, steak dinners, and other luxury items can constitute the types of personal benefit needed to establish a breach of duty in connection with a prosecution for insider trading. The court’s May 26, 2016 decision in
LeClair Ryan – The mayor of San Francisco recently signed the Paid Parental Leave Ordinance, a law that gives workers in the city the most generous parental leave benefits in the country. Covered employees will have the right to take up to six weeks of paid leave to bond with a newborn child, newly adopted
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In partnership litigation, a partnership lawyer who specializes in the intricacies of partnership law is a must for partners who are at each other throats. Partnership litigation, including corporate shareholder lawsuits, limited liability member lawsuits and even family co-owner lawsuits, has both a complex legal component and a highly charged emotional component. Retaining a lawyer
Lock Lorde – On May 9, 2016 the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released a searchable database with information on almost 320,000 offshore entities from of the Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks investigations. The Mossack Fonesca leaks and subsequent publication of the database, the largest ever release of secret offshore holdings and the people
DLA Piper – Even by the standards of the exciting and ever-changing landscape of unmanned aerial system (UAS) or drone law, the month of April was eventful. In April, we observed in at least one case the Federal Aviation Administration significantly relax its commercial UAS operational restrictions, as well as an enormous step forward in
