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• 3 Attorney Ethics Considerations For Litigation Funding

  

  The growth of the litigation finance industry has generated questions on the obligations of counsel when their clients are seeking outside capital to fund litigation, which litigators must understand when providing information to a third-party funder and discussing legal strategy with a client, says Matthew Oxman at LexShares.

• How ABA Opinion Shifts Alternative Biz Structure Landscape

  

  A recent American Bar Association opinion approving lawyers' passive investment in nonlawyer-owned firms eliminates a hurdle for law firms wishing to scale their practice through alternative business structures, but aspiring investors should follow a few best practices, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Deepika Ravi at Harris Wiltshire.

• Vaccine Passport Efforts Need To Stay Mindful Of ADA Title III

  

  As questions about vaccine passports' viability under Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act prevail, companies should carefully explore whether requiring them of customers and patrons creates legitimate impediments to the full and equal access of public accommodations, say Charles Thompson and Anthony Guzman at Greenberg Traurig.

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  Embracing ESG: HPE Counsel Talk Effective Board Oversight

  

  Governance teams can more effectively shape board oversight of environmental, social and governance issues by ensuring organizationwide agreement on the most relevant issues, building a materiality framework that reflects stakeholder input, and monitoring the integration of ESG into operations, say Rishi Varma and Derek Windham at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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  Justice Gap Demands Look At New Legal Service Models

  

  Current restrictions on how lawyers structure their businesses stand in the way of meaningful access to justice for many Americans, so states should follow the lead of Utah and Florida and test out innovative law firm business models through regulatory sandboxes, says Zachariah DeMeola at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System.

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  Embracing ESG: Leidos GC Talks Social Responsibility

  

  Recent criticisms of corporate commitments to stakeholders such as employees and communities — implicitly opposing environmental, social and governance initiatives — are fundamentally flawed and display a serious misunderstanding of contemporary investor priorities and dynamics, says Jerald Howe at Leidos.

• Lessons In Crisis Lawyering 20 Years After 9/11

  

  Dianne Phillips at Holland & Knight recounts her experiences as in-house counsel at a liquefied natural gas company in the tumultuous aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, and details the lessons she learned about lawyering in a crisis, including the importance of careful forethought and having trusted advisers on speed dial.

• Why Structured Data Is Increasingly Important To Your Case

  

  During discovery, legal teams often overlook structured data — the rows of information found in financial ledgers and similar corporate systems — and consider it secondary to emails and other anecdotal evidence, but this common mistake could mean litigators are missing key elements of a dispute, say consultants at Alvarez & Marsal.

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  Embracing ESG: AIG Counsel Talks SEC Risk Alert

  

  As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission responds to the changing landscape on environmental, social and corporate governance investing, including with its recent risk alert, it is imperative that the regulator take a measured approach, says Kate Fuentes at AIG.

• What The Nondebtor Release Bill Means For Chapter 11 Filings

  

  Proposed legislation prohibiting nonconsensual third-party releases in Chapter 11 plans would likely eliminate the use of bankruptcy restructurings as vehicles for large tort settlements, among other impacts on case administration and exculpation rights, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

• What The Judiciary's Font Recommendations Can Teach Us

  

  The D.C. Circuit's recent soft prohibition on Garamond and the ensuing debates about courts' font preferences should serve as a helpful reminder of a larger point — every departure from convention in legal writing carries some level of risk, says Spencer Short at Stradley Ronon.

• How Court Ruling, DOE Guidance Change DeVos' Title IX Rule

  

  A Massachusetts federal court's recent ruling in Victim Rights Law Center v. Miguel Cardona, striking down a controversial provision of the Trump administration's Title IX regulations, and subsequent Department of Education guidance will have a significant, immediate impact on Title IX investigations at higher education institutions nationwide, say attorneys at Hunton.

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  Admission Of Error In Caster Semenya Case Is Long Overdue

  

  Because the scientific underpinning of a causal relationship between testosterone and athletic performance has now disappeared, Olympic gold medal-winning intersex runner Caster Semenya should be allowed to compete in international meets immediately and should be compensated for the losses she sustained while banned, says retired attorney Ronald Katz.

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  NFL Concussion Settlement Still Underestimated 5 Years Later

  

  Since the Third Circuit affirmed the NFL concussion class action settlement in 2016, claimants have received awards two to 10 times higher than many recent plaintiff-favorable multidistrict litigations, in contrast to early criticisms that few would qualify for compensation and awards would be minuscule, says attorney Brad Sohn.

• How The 'Rocket Docket' Continues To Roar Through COVID

  

  While the Eastern District of Virginia rocket docket is no longer the nation's fastest civil trial court, it continues to keep litigation moving efficiently, with pandemic protocols resulting in new benefits for litigants, says Robert Tata at Hunton.