by RG | Aug 13, 2026 | legal matters
Frederick Shelton and Ayven Dodd: When negotiating with legal MSOs, sophisticated buyers know the first number on the page is only the beginning. Sophisticated sellers should think the same way. The post Evaluating Legal MSOs: Apply the ‘Rule of 2 to 5’ appeared first...
by RG | Aug 12, 2026 | Law.com
It is one of the more common questions a trademark practitioner fields at the start of a brand launch: “We found the name we want to use, but somebody else is already using it — and they never registered it. Are we blocked? Surprisingly, the answer is oftentimes “not...
by RG | Aug 12, 2026 | Law.com
The U.S. Department of Justice filed for a supplemental brief for an emergency stay Wednesday morning in a suit attorney generals from 23 states and the District of Columbia brought in April captioned California v. Trump. The U.S. Department of Justice filed for...
by RG | Aug 12, 2026 | Law.com
Taylor Farms and Taco Bell now face more than a dozen lawsuits over a cyclospora outbreak involving shredded iceberg lettuce. Taylor Farms recently announced another recall of products containing jalapenos with possible salmonella contamination. Taylor Farms and...
by RG | Aug 12, 2026 | above the law
Alabama ran a primary yesterday. It supposedly ran one in May — and many people voted in it! — but it never counted. If that sounds confusing… it was! So much so that turnout bottomed out around 5 percent. To put that in context, almost 23 percent turned out to vote...