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Musings on Pay Transparency – What do Practitioners See Happening?



New York State is poised to implement the Pay Transparency Act (the “Act”), a law aimed at “address[ing] systemic pay inequity and discrimination through increased pay transparency by requiring employers...Read more

Patrick Boyd
Founding Partner, The Boyd Law Group, USA
Maxwell Popkin
Law Clerk, The Boyd Law Group, USA

Valerie Phillips
Associate Partner and Head of Americas Legal Practice, Danos Group, USA
U.S. Plays Catch-up to Close Long-Standing Gaps in Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Part Two: Focus on Real Estate Transactions

Part One of this Article focused on the U.S. Government’s anti-money laundering/contra terrorist financing (“AML”) efforts, certain deficiencies in the 2001 USA Patriot Act, which was enacted following the terrorist...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
The Use of Crowdsource Funding and Game Theory in the Decentralized Arbitration Process



The accelerated pace of digitalization has created exponential growth in the number of transactions that are being conducted online and across jurisdictional boundaries. With this surge in e-commerce comes a...Read more

Liz Maag
General Counsel, Aware, USA

Zachary Pyers
Attorney and Partner, Reminger Co., L.P.A., USA

Bella Jagielski
Legal Intern, Aware, USA

Kenton Steele
Attorney, Reminger Co., L.P.A., USA
HELP WANTED: Sensible Immigration Options for U.S. Employers

“Nobody wants to work anymore” as evidenced by the Great Resignation is a sentiment that has been widely publicized, and has seemingly become part of the American psyche following two...Read more

Colleen DiSanto
Attorney, Disanto & Disanto,, USA

Molly Machold
General Counsel, FacilitySource, LLC dba CBRE Retail & Multi-Site, USA
Creative Claiming Strategies


Innovator companies in the biopharmaceutical space are looking to their patent counsel for creative patent claiming strategies to protect their assets. In this article, using the Federal Circuit opinions in...Read more

Angela Sebor
Director Intellectual Property, Tolmar, Inc., USA

Xiaoguang Michelle Gao
Associate VP - Assistant General Patent Counsel , Eli Lilly and Company, USA
Stacy Lewis
Law Clerk, Finnegan, USA
Metaverse and Privacy
From Facebook's recent decision to rename itself "Meta" to Epic Games' billion-dollar investment in metaverse technologies, the metaverse has dominated the news and will likely continue to do so over...Read more

Gary Weingarden
Counsel, Data Protection Officer, Notarize, Inc., USA
U.S. Plays Catch-up to Close Long-Standing Gaps in Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Part One
The U.S. Government finally seems to begin focusing on closing long-standing and significant gaps in existing anti-money and contra-terrorist financing laws (together, “AML”) that have been in existence for nearly...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
Optional Arbitration Appeals: Principles and Practice
This article examines the availability of optional appellate review of a final award entered in private contractual arbitration proceedings between commercial entities in the United States. Such appellate review is...Read more

Joseph Aronds
Vice President and Chief Litigation and Trial Counsel, Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., USA
Will New York’s Indexed Payments for Tier 1 Renewable Energy Credits (“IRECs”) Hurt It’s Voluntary Corporate and Industrial (“C&I”) Renewable Energy Market?
Spurred by an imperative for durable energy offtake, long-term price certainty, improving project economics, and corporate social responsibility to combat climate change, corporate and non-utility industrial (“C&I”) buyers of renewable...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
Is a Single Bank Supervisor Inevitable throughout the European Union?
Nineteen Member States (out of 27) of the European Union have currently adopted the euro as their common currency and joined the banking union of the EU. By treaty provision...Read more

Duncan Alford
Associate Dean and Professor, University of South Carolina, USA