By: Lindsay Burke and Moriah Daugherty Covington & Burling LLP Today, among the most critical risks a company can face are the cyber risks associated with its own employees or contractors. Companies are confronting an increasingly complex series...

By: David J. Goldschmidt and Michael J. Schwartz SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP The planning and preparation that each public company must undertake in connection with periodic and current reporting is substantial in terms of time, effort...

By: Arthur D. Robinson and Jonathan Ozner SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP SENIOR EXECUTIVES AND OWNERS OF PRIVATE COMPANIES considering an initial public offering (IPO), or of public companies considering a spin-off or carve-out IPO of a subsidiary...

By: Annemargaret Connolly and Matthew D. Morton , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Why should real estate lenders and other secured creditors concern themselves with known and potential environmental liabilities and requirements associated with their...

One-E-Way filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) accusing, among others, Respondents Sony Corporation; Sony Corporation of America; Sony Electronics, Inc.; BlueAnt Wireless Pty, Ltd.; BlueAnt Wireless, Inc.; Creative...

While a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1969, Paul Soglin attended the first Mifflin Street Block Party, whose theme (according to Soglin) was "taking a sharp stick and poking it in the eye of authority." Now in his seventh term as...

Dennis Morris is a photographer and artist. Morris has published two books: Never Mind the B*ll*cks: A Photographic Record of the Sex Pistols Tour (United Kingdom, 1991), published with copyright notice; and Destroy: Sex Pistols 1977 (United Kingdom,...

Plaintiffs Helene Smollett and her husband, Leonard Smollet, attended a fundraising event at a skating rink operated by defendant Skayting Development Corporation ("Skayting"). Mrs. Smollett was an experienced skater. The skating area, which...

In 1923, petitioner Farid-Es-Sultaneh, an unmarried American woman, executed a pre-nuptial agreement with her fiance, Sebastian Kresge, the owner of the S.S. Kresge Company. The pre-nuptial agreement stipulated that petitioner was to receive a certain...

Prior to their marriage, petitioner, Gregory W. Woodrum (“Greg”), and respondent, Jennifer L. Woodrum, executed a prenuptial agreement. After eight years of marriage, Greg filed a petition for dissolution of marriage. During the pendency of...