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April 22, 2025

Faux Real: Deepfakes Meet IP Law

Read this practice note explaining key IP issues associated with deepfakes, including potential claims under copyright, trademark, right of publicity, and tort law. Understand the current legislative and regulatory landscape as well as jurisdictional differences...

March 19, 2025

$12B in LA Wildfire Insurer Payouts & State Farm’s 22% Emergency Rate Hike in CA

Insurer Payouts for LA Wildfires Top $12B California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (D) announced that insurers have now paid out over $12 billion in claims from the largest of the Los Angeles wildfires. That sum is almost twice the $6.9 billion that insurers...

April 15, 2025

MFN Clauses in Credit Agreements: What’s Trending?

Read this practice note discussing how a borrower may exercise its additional permitted debt capacity under a credit agreement. This practice note also looks at market trends in most favored nation (MFN) clauses in publicly file credit agreements through 2024....

April 15, 2025

Courtroom Confidence: The Ultimate Flowchart for Exhibit Success

Enhance your courtroom strategy with our comprehensive flowchart for navigating federal court proceedings. This indispensable resource meticulously maps out the entire process of introducing trial exhibits into evidence, ensuring you are well-prepared at every...

April 22, 2025

Market Trends H2 2024: Fraud Carve-Outs in Private Target Deals

When drafting and negotiating an acquisition agreement, counsel should address potential issues arising from allegations of fraud to avoid potentially complex, time-consuming, and costly disputes after an acquisition agreement is signed. This new market trends...

April 22, 2025

Employees Shouldn’t Be Bot-thered: States Seek to Protect Them from AI Discrimination

Do you need to understand how states are trying to protect employees from algorithmic and artificial intelligence (AI) discrimination? Read our newly published article, States Passing Laws to Prevent AI Discrimination in Workplace , by Brian Joseph, StateNet Correspondent...

May 08, 2025

LexisNexis® InfoPro Weekly Update, May 8, 2025

KRC Insights: Did You Know? International Coverage on Lexis+ and Lexis What’s New: Product Updates, Thought Leadership, & Practice Area Resources Secondary Materials Added to Lexis+ ® and Lexis ® in April LexisNexis ® Announces Enhanced...

April 15, 2025

A Primer on Pass-Through FDIC Insurance Coverage

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) recently proposed changes to custodial deposit accounts with transactional features, aiming to ensure the prompt payment of deposit insurance to depositors. The proposed rule seeks to define FDIC pass-through insurance...

April 22, 2025

Navigating Data Broker Laws: A Comparative Guide to Key State Laws

This chart provides a comprehensive comparison of the data broker laws in California, Oregon, Texas, and Vermont. It outlines key provisions, including entities and data covered, registration fees, registration disclosure requirements, data security obligations...

April 15, 2025

Key Negotiating Points in Private M&A: What You Need to Know

In today's fast-paced deal-making environment, clients rely on their counsel to possess extensive knowledge of transactional negotiations, encompassing the full range of typical buyer and seller positions. They anticipate this expertise will be harnessed to...

March 11, 2025

Bill to Provide Unemployment Benefits to Striking Workers in OR & Wage Theft Protection Bill in NY

OR Looks to Allow Striking Workers to Collect Unemployment A hotly debated bill ( SB 916 ) passed out of committee in Oregon’s Senate last week would allow striking workers in both the public and private sector to collect unemployment benefits. Although...

April 22, 2025

New Hotel and Hospitality Property Resource Kit

Hotel and hospitality acquisitions generally include additional operational concerns such as employee transitions, food and beverage operations, inventory, and guest baggage turnover, as well as franchise relationships. Check out our new resource kit for more information...

April 22, 2025

SEC Drops Defense of Biden-Era Climate Disclosure Rules

On March 27, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it would no longer defend regulations that it had originally adopted in March 2024, requiring some of the world's largest corporations to publicly disclose the effects climate change could have on their...

April 22, 2025

Federal 340B Prescription Drug Discount Program

Understand the prescription drug discount program established under Public Health Service Act Section 340B. Read now » Related Content Life Sciences Post-Closing Price Reporting Covenant Clause Use this template clause to comply with price reporting...

March 14, 2025

What’s New in Practical Guidance – February 2025

February 2025 brings a host of exciting new features and updates to the Practical Guidance product, enhancing its utility across various legal practice areas. This month's updates focus on executive actions, cross-practice resources, corporate and M&A,...

April 22, 2025

May the Force (Majeure Clause) Be with You!

Explore this guidance for invoking a force majeure clause in a commercial contract. This checklist addresses how to assess whether the event qualifies as a force majeure event, satisfying notice and mitigation requirements, and alternative remedies that may be...

April 15, 2025

Keeping it Current: Essential Updates and Renewals for Franchise Disclosure Documents

Discover crucial steps to ensure your franchise disclosure documents remain compliant and effective. Learn about the latest amendments and renewal strategies to keep your franchise thriving in a competitive market. Read now » Related Content A Guide...

April 15, 2025

When Should In-House Counsel Hire Outside Counsel

Outside lawyers are also known as outside counsel, working in law firms and hired by in-house counsel who work in corporate legal departments. The in-house legal team is directed by the general counsel, who indirectly manages external counsels. These external counsel...

March 06, 2025

What Is Agentic AI?

One of the most frequent questions, “What is agentic AI,” provides an opportunity to explore advancement in artificial intelligence. How better to do that than with the assistance of a generative AI Large Language Model (LLM) that did a fantastic job...

April 29, 2025

Institutional Review Boards

This practice note discusses Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) within the United States, including their purpose, history, and regulatory framework. The note is a valuable resource for advising life sciences and healthcare clients on IRB-related matters and ensuring...

April 22, 2025

Going Somewhere? Navigating Employee Relocation Programs and Their Tax Ramifications

Employers often relocate employees to meet their business needs, respond to trends, and remain competitive. Many employers have corporate mobility programs and policies that allow them to identify top talent, place them strategically throughout the organization...

April 15, 2025

Hatch-Waxman Safe Harbor Checklist

This checklist covers how the Hatch-Waxman safe harbor provision applies to the drug development process. Read now » Related Content Hatch-Waxman Act Fundamentals Get an overview of the approval process for prescription drugs under the Hatch-Waxman...

April 29, 2025

Harvard's Tax-Exempt Tango: When Academia Meets the IRS Two-Step

Harvard University’s tax-exempt status has been questioned by the Trump Administration—with Harvard responding that there is no legal basis for a revocation. The Administration’s action impacting Harvard flows from its letter on policy changes...

April 30, 2025

Easily Find Segments for Searching Specific Content Types

While Lexis+/Lexis regular users typically know their preferred segments to use for more specific searches in their most frequent content types, what about requests that come through to search something less familiar? Our Advanced Search templates can provide...

April 15, 2025

A Roth is Really Special—But Know the Rules

For plan years beginning in 2026, higher-compensated participants (not highly compensated employees under Section 414(q)) in 401(k) plans and salary reduction 403(b) plans will not be allowed to make catch-up contributions on a pre-tax basis. But they will be permitted...

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