A recent Ninth Circuit decision provides useful guidance regarding the risks of damages for distributors accused of copyright infringement.

The federal regulation at issue governs not only actual water bodies, but also wetlands which, based on their surface or subsurface connections, potentially impact those waters.

In December 2013, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules that would permit U.S. and Canadian companies that are not SEC reporting issuers to sell up to $50 million of their securities in any rolling 12 month period with reduced regulation and related expense.

On February 3, 2014, the Staff of the SEC issued a No-Action Letter that Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP lawyers played a key role in securing.

As most readers are aware, a statute of limitations sets a deadline after which lawsuits are prohibited.

Of course, a dealer to whom art has been consigned for sale does not own the art, having only the contractual right to transfer the owner’s title.

Today’s high school students are learning the skills needed for 3-D modeling, and copying is already being encouraged online: In a video posted at 3dprinter.net, a man takes off the sunglasses he is wearing and shows how to make a 3-D copy in a few easy steps.

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the New York Non-Profit Revitalization Act of 2013 into law on December 18, 2013

In recent years, borrowers of leveraged loans have sought to include "Disqualified Lender" provisions in their credit agreements.

In my last column, I pointed out the significant environmental risks from both Canada’s oil sands and Japan’s nuclear facilities and concluded that, after balancing their respective benefits and risks, neither represented a desirable model for either the United States or the international community to meet their future energy needs.

Non-U.S. individuals making direct investments in the United States face a bewildering U.S. tax regime.

To be enforceable, non-compete agreements, like all contracts, require adequate consideration.

Like all other contracts, restrictive covenants must be supported by adequate consideration at the time they are executed.

Over the last decade, the so-called "garden leave" clause has begun to appear with increasing frequency in employment agreements in this country.

Broker-dealers using social media for business purposes face new scrutiny from FINRA, which has issued two detailed Regulatory Notices and a new rule on electronic communications with the public.