The Federal Home Loan banks have never run adrift of their mission. The only ones asking for trouble are those who suggest we get rid of these vital institutions, suggests Michael Horn. Continue Reading
Disclosing Risk Factors in Municipal Securities Offerings
Tax-exempt bonds are a common financing tool for state and local government issuers and nonprofit organizations, such as colleges, universities, and healthcare systems. Although municipal securities generally are exempt from federal securities laws, borrowers that benefit from these municipal Continue Reading
Challenging Government Use of Nontraditional White Collar Tools
The government prosecutes countless white collar cases with an ever-increasing reliance on nontraditional techniques, so defense attorneys must be aware of these tools and challenge them vigorously, advise Glenn MacKinlay and Dean Elwell. Continue Reading
New NJ Law Creates Flexibility for Corporate Conversion
Veronica Montagna, Alan Kornstein, and Matthew Windman discuss New Jersey's new law S.B. 142. The bill amends and supplements the New Jersey Business Corporation Act to provide procedures for (1) conversions, or the process of converting one type of entity to another type of entity, and (2) Continue Reading
The Southern District’s ‘Limited Exception’ for Finder’s Fee Contracts
In their latest New York Law Journal article, Curtis Leitner and Peter Gennuso discuss a recent SDNY decision on the distinction between a finder and a broker under the securities laws, and what the decision means for finder’s fee contracts. Continue Reading
Does Your Invention Need a Passport?
Your patent is finally filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (or the office of your local country). Then you remember your attorney saying something about patents being jurisdictional, whatever that means.... Once you have filed your initial patent application, which is Continue Reading
High Time for Change: Criminal Justice Considerations for Future Cannabis Markets
In this article, Guillermo Artiles and Ryan Magee identify several criminal justice policy issues resulting from New Jersey’s legalization of cannabis and explore ways neighboring states, like Pennsylvania, can address those issues in the context of a broader cannabis legalization policy discussion. Continue Reading
Who’s the Boss? Fiduciary Liability and Directed Trusts
“Directed Trusts”—trusts in which someone other than a trustee has a role in the administration—are becoming more and more commonplace. However, many states impose differing fiduciary standards on trustees and those third parties (so-called “trust directors”). This lack of uniformity leads to Continue Reading
Who Is the Author — You or AI? Tensions Rise over Copyright Protection
Does an inventor need to be human? Vadim Cherkasov and Jeffrey Safran discuss a recent decision in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit involving artificial intelligence (AI) and ideas conceived by AI can be patent protected. For Bloomberg Insights, Cherkasov and Saffran talk about how this Continue Reading
Fake Nursing Degree Liability Is a Hot Potato — Will Hospitals Get Stuck with It?
Kay Klele spoke with Becker’s Hospital Review to discuss the potential liability hospitals could face as fallout from Operation Nightingale, which uncovered a scheme to provide fraudulent nursing school transcript an diplomas from three school in Florida. Continue Reading