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Perhaps the biggest lingering effect of the coronavirus pandemic in the world of real estate, for both tenants and landlords, is the issue of unpaid rent. New York State’s eviction moratorium set forth in the Tenant Safe Harbor Act, the ...

JK Executive Strategies LLC has launched a legal services practice to help corporations, as well as law firms, secure legal talent. “Legal professionals play an integral role in the operations of nearly every industry, and therefore it’s of critical importance ...

In U.S. v. Arthrex, case number 19-1434; Smith & Nephew v. Arthrex, case number 19-1452; and Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew, case number 19-1458, the Supreme Court recently held that the law empowering Administrative Patent Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ...

I see the coming year as a time to work on relationships. As my friend Paul Richardson says: “being a lawyer is all about relationships — relationships with clients, witnesses, other lawyers, judges, and people in general.” Before the pandemic, ...

The commercial lease is one of the foundational documents in today’s business world. Each day, landlords and tenants of every size and in every sector of the economy negotiate and execute these agreements, each, presumably, with the goal of entering ...

When an insurance carrier is faced with multiple parties who may claim to have rights to a payment under a policy, a federal interpleader action can be a useful tool to decide all such claims in a single action. A ...

As we have reported on earlier this year, energy policy and climate change focus have taken a dramatic turn under the Biden administration. Hours after the oath of office the president signed an executive order declaring climate change a crisis, ...

Those patent attorneys and agents who practice in the worlds of biological sciences and computer arts have been working through the ether that is 35 U.S.C. §101 for quite some time. Based on the recent decision of the Federal Circuit ...

The Second Circuit has radically expanded the types of matters which can be litigated in the federal courts. It is now clear that individuals who suffer an injury due to another’s violation of a state statute can seek federal courts. ...

A lifetime of service and dedication to the town of Irondequoit and the city of Rochester came to an end with Judge Joseph Genier’s death on May 27. Judge Genier, 76, served as a Town Court judge for nearly 28 ...

Companies are rethinking their hiring practices post-COVID-19 and are implementing new strategies to attract top talent as job seekers shift some of their priorities moving forward. Mark Kovaleski, managing partner at Mengel Metzger Barr & Co. LLP, says the firm ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has so accelerated law firms’ adoptions of new technologies that they have jumped ahead several years, says Christopher Rodi, partner at Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP. “It has really forced us to move five years forward in six ...