Legal developments concerning blockchain and digital assets are not limited to the English-speaking world or to common-law jurisdictions. Earlier this year brought some thought-provoking developments on digital assets and related technologies from Spanish-speaking civil law jurisdictions. These include a ruling from a Barcelona court on the intersection of intellectual property…

Florida Supreme Court Enters New Rules of Civil Procedure | Daily Business Review Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2024/05/24/litigator-workloads-could-spike-under-amended-civil-procedure-rules/ Florida Supreme Court Justices. From left: Carlos Muñiz, Charles Canady, Jorge Labarga, John Couriel, Jamie Grosshans, Renatha Francis. (Courtesy photos) “Attorneys have to be very attentive to these changes because they will impact…

You’ll see it in news stories that are sometimes fleeting—“OpenAI reveals emails showing Elon Musk backed its plans to become a for-profit business and insisted it raise billions”—and sometimes indicting, such as Elizabeth Holmes’s emailed notes-to-self that included, “Really smart people picked off mado Not you.” The common thread? Email.…

As the two component parts of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling do the hard work of integrating their businesses, some across the African continent have asked what the merger would mean for A&O’s Africa business—one of the most prominent among international law firms. A&O Shearman office managing partner…

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Nicole Boeckmann, a longtime leader in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, joined Bracewell on Wednesday as a partner in the firm’s government enforcement and investigations practice. Boeckmann most recently served as chief of the EDNY’s Long Island Division, and she previously served as acting…