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 09, 2025

Construction Risk Management and Allocation Essentials

Risk allocation and management are crucial for the success and sustainability of construction projects. Effective risk management involves careful contract drafting and adequate insurance coverage. State laws often limit the scope of contractual indemnities, making...
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 24, 2025

How to Surface all the Documents from a Source

There is an easy way to retrieve all the articles or documents from a single source on Lexis ® /Lexis+ ® . Simply pull up the desired source: Then click on the three dots next to the sources name, selecting “Get all documents for this source.”...
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...
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 08, 2025

The Art of Mediation: How to Pick the Right Mediator for Your Case

Enhance your mediation strategy with our expert’s practice note, designed to help you avoid the pitfalls of selecting the wrong mediator for your case. This insightful guide delves into the critical factors to consider when evaluating potential mediators...
April 08, 2025

Cybersecurity Insurance: Practical Steps Businesses Can Take to Become More Insurable

It is more important than ever for businesses to have a clear understanding of whether their current policies cover cyber incidents and, if so, to what extent. Find out what your organization can do to make it more attractive to insurers. Read now » Related...
April 08, 2025

FDA Regulation of Medical Devices

This practice note includes an overview of FDA medical device regulatory requirements including premarket notification and approval, investigational device exemptions, and quality system regulations. Read now » Related Content FDA Medical Devices...
April 08, 2025

Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching You? Keep Up with New Federal Privacy Legislation

Do you need to stay up to date with privacy-related federal legislation proposed after January 1, 2025, including workplace privacy? Review and set an alert on the Federal Privacy Legislation Tracker . Read now » Related Content Employee Privacy State...
April 08, 2025

Patent Claim Drafting: Navigating Printed Matter and Game Claims

Unlock the secrets to successfully drafting printed matter and game patent claims. Learn how to establish crucial functional or structural relationships between printed matter and other elements to ensure your claims hold patentable weight. Discover strategies...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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 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 08, 2025

HIPAA Hooray! Business Associate Agreement Review

Check out this practice note from Practical Guidance – Healthcare to better understand how to review a Business Associate Agreement mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The note outlines key provisions, potential...
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 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 08, 2025

Money, Money, Money, Money: Insurer Investments State Law Survey

Review provisions across the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories regulating insurers’ real estate, stock, and foreign investments plus derivative distributions. Read now » Related Content Credit Agreements in the...
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,...