Evident partiality is a ground for vacating an arbitration award under both the Federal Arbitration Act and the Texas Arbitration Act.

The Internet is the world’s largest repository of information. To cull the Internet trove efficiently, many parties have deployed automated search tools, often referred to as crawlers or spiders, to "mine" data residing on other Web sites.

It is estimated that the legal cannabis industry could reach $30 billion in sales and employ nearly half a million full-time workers by 2023. In one year, cannabis companies raised $13.8 billion in funding.

Ever since the 7th Circuit’s decision in Precision Industries, Inc. v. Qualitech Steel SBQ, LLC, 327 F. 3rd 537(7th Cir. 2003), bankruptcy practitioners and lessees have wondered if, in the context of a debtor-in-possession or a trustee sale of real estate free and clear of any interests in the property under Section 363(f), they could protect the lessee’s Section 365(h) right to remain in possession of leased real estate when the lease is rejected.

Reports that franchisors could avoid class actions through arbitration appear to have been greatly exaggerated.

Litigation, by its very nature, is backward looking.Trial counsel act as legal archeologists, attempting to determine what went wrong and when.Thus, litigation offers a unique opportunity to examine, with 20/20 hindsight, the issues and actions that led to failure.

The D.C. Circuit's decision clarifies that an attorney-client communication is protected as long as a significant purpose of the communication is obtaining or providing legal advice.

There’s a new player seated at the financial table: hedge funds. While hedge funds "were originally designed to invest in equity securities and use leverage and short selling to ‘hedge’ the portfolio’s exposure to movements of the equity markets, hedge funds utilize a wide variety of investment strategies and techniques."

William Bogot and Donna B. More was featured in The American Lawyer article, "Pot Luck: Marijuana Legalization Drives Budding Practices."

The Seventh Circuit reverses, holding the bankruptcy court applied too narrow of a baseline payment range to the creditor's ordinary course defense in this preference action.

On May 20, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an 8-1 ruling in the case of Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC.

The bankruptcy court grants the trustee's motion to dismiss the creditors' adversary proceeding. The claims asserted by the creditors were property of the estate and thus the trustee has the exclusive right to assert the claims.

There is a high likelihood that some regulations will be imposed on hedge funds in the US. The question is not so much if there will be regulation, but when and how much. This article considers the factors driving regulation.

MoFo litigation partner Purvi G. Patel was presented with the 2019 Mentor of the Year Award during the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California's (SABA-SC)

There’s an ever-growing list of reports and studies that collect, analyze and scrutinize various deal terms and other aspects of M&A transactions – or at least it feels that way.

Recognizing in 2010 that Kaye Scholer's New York office lease would terminate in April 2015 after more than 50 years in the same building, firm members began studying whether and how to move certain firm-wide functions from its Manhattan office to an external operations center.

Omni MedSci, Inc. has filed a single Eastern District of Texas complaint against Fossil, OnePlus, Oura Health, and Samsung (2:24-cv-01070), alleging infringement of five patents...

Is the USPTO now stricter than the EPO on antibody claims? A consideration of recent developments from both sides of the pond.

With no fanfare whatsoever, the U.S. Congress has passed legislation, signed into law by President Obama on May 11, 2016, that could encourage more employees to become SEC, CFTC or false claims act whistleblowers.

You have the power to monetize directly through your audience, but with that power comes the need for financial discipline and business structure.