NFT Craze Wanders Into The Legal Realm
As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, the new digital artform has started to bump up against bedrock legal concepts. Creators and companies plotting legal strategies in the NFT space have begun to adapt these old concepts to new uses by registering various NFT related trademarks and instituting intellectual property litigation to protect their brands in the metaverse. An NFT is a unit of data stored on a digital ledger which is associated with either a digital fil
The Attorney and the Entrepreneur: Divergent Paths to a Common Goal
Guest post from Adele Falco When working well together, entrepreneurs and lawyers are aligned to a common goal: building a growing, sustainable, and secure organization. In a successful partnership, each of these parties contributes its skills, resources, and talents to this task. Yet our understanding of what drives either party might be unclear to us or perhaps based on stereotypical assumptions that may or may not apply. What might lawyers not know about the entrepreneurs
Legalization of Cannabis Has Impacts on Commercial Real Estate
As New York begins to sort out the regulatory framework for the Marijuana Regulation & Taxation Act (MRTA), the statute that legalized the adult-use/recreational marijuana, legal guidance for establishing physical cannabis business locations under the new law is also beginning to take shape. MRTA, itself, provides some real estate parameters. Under the statute, a cannabis retail licensee cannot locate a storefront within five hundred feet of a school or within two hundred fee
Yes The Office Market Is Coming Back But The Devil Is In The Details
The days of working in your pajamas may be fading. The office rental market is rebounding. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that, for instance, in New York City there were a record number of office leases signed at $100-plus per square foot starting rents in 2021. Annual office leasing activity totaled 20.42 million sq. ft. and was up 63 percent compared to the same period last year. CBRE summed up the movement in the office market as follows: “the office market rebo
