Image of an unrelated dog. This is how one should use pictures, by getting a proper license, not steal them: "Chihuahua" by Ghost-Monkey is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 REPUBLISHED TO UPDATE TO VP-ELECT STATUS This week we decided to throwback to the infamous “Taco...
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“The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge” Sues New York Magazine
Harvard Law Professor, Bruce Hay, is unhappy after New York magazine released an unflattering story titled "The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge". The story featured an escalating legal conflict between Hay and two women that “he had loved” – the Shumans: Maria-Pia (a...
Oreo Cookies Dunk Opposition to Escape Class Action
The maker of America’s world-famous “sandwich cookie,” Mondelez Global LLC, has dodged a class action accusing it of misleading consumers with packaging slogan “Always Made with Real Cocoa.” On July 28, 2020, a New York District Court judge dismissed the suit, holding...
“High Plains Drifter” Sues CBD Companies
Hollywood actor-director and all-around celebrity, the 90-year-old Clint Eastwood sued several CBD (cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive extract of a hemp plant) companies and marketers after discovering that they used his name and a fabricated interview to promote sales....
AMC Wins Big in “The Walking Dead” Dispute: Contract Meaning of “Shall” clarified
A California judge gave the upper hand to AMC in a huge contract battle over AMC’s hit show “The Walking Dead” – known to viewers as “TWD.” Executive Producers of TWD filed a lawsuit in 2017 claiming that AMC had shorted them profits because it acts as both the show’s...
On COVID-19
Hello, The COVID-19 outbreak took many of us by surprise. And now it has metastasized into a pandemic that most of us have not experienced in our lifetimes. The impact on our nation has deepened and changed just in the time it has taken us to draft and finalize this...
Why You Need Outside General Counsel
We want to begin 2020 explaining some of what our firm does. Let's say you have a small business that just keeps growing. You made all the right moves. Nothing seems to go wrong. Unfortunately, things can, and often do go wrong at some point. The following are...