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As we reach the three-month anniversary of the COVID-19 Pause requirements in New York State, this is the time for employers to conduct an audit of their policies to ensure compliance with new requirements. These are the top five COVID-19 ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has made provisions and extended deadlines for responding to certain matters in light of the hardships created by the COVID-19 outbreak and has also created programs intended to spur innovation in the ...

As most states shift into phased re-opening plans, you’re undoubtedly thinking about the process of opening your law firm’s doors. That being said, re-opening a law firm in the midst of a worldwide pandemic is no easy feat — and ...

This is my last column as president of the MCBA. Usually, the president’s last column is a retrospective look back at the events, programs and achievements of the prior year. But we are not in ordinary times and the last ...

We’re entering a new stage now, as many states are in the process of slowly reopening. You might even be considering opening the doors of your law firm. But even if you are, you’re still likely spending significant amounts of ...

In September 2019, I wrote an article regarding the Emoluments Clauses and the three separate federal cases that had recently addressed them. For those of you who are not intimately familiar with the Emoluments Clauses, let me set them forth ...

Civil forfeiture actions present attorneys with a unique risk — the potential seizure of an innocent client’s property due to a co-owner’s wrongful use of it. Civil forfeiture allows the government to seize property that the government alleges is involved ...

In response to the COVID-19 emergency, the governor of New York issued executive orders significantly restricting the business activities that commercial tenants could conduct from leased locations in New York state. Many tenants impacted by these orders have refused to ...

Now that some states are flattening the curve, guidelines are being established to allow phased reopenings of businesses, including law firms. Of course, no one has ever attempted to reopen businesses after a worldwide pandemic, so we’re in uncharted territory. ...

For most business law practitioners, we have had little-to-no need to revisit the concepts of force majeure, frustration of purpose, impossibility, and impracticality since completing our final examination in contracts. This orthodoxy was challenged in March, when large sectors of ...

May 2020 marks the final month of the Bar year, and my final month as president of the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys (“GRAWA”). I can’t believe the year is nearly over — it has flown by! Despite the ...

The Paralegal Association of Rochester hosted Ben Woelk, RIT’S Program Manager for Information Security, on March 3 at the University of Rochester conference center. The topic was cybersecurity and in particular, digital self-defense.  Mr. Woelk shared insights about: (1) why ...