BLT: December 2011

Business & Corporate

Our Mini-Theme: Topics in Cyberspace Law

Jonathan T. Rubens

This issue’s mini-theme looks at recent proposed legislation, regulation, regulatory guidance, and caselaw, both within the United States and globally, that could dramatically affect the way business is conducted online and in connection with online communications.

Business & Corporate

New Legislation Renews Conflict Between Content Creators and Content Distributors

Jon M. Garon

This article provides an overview of the two most wide-reaching efforts to regulate the Internet to have been introduced to Congress in recent years. The two acts are the Pro-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Business & Corporate

Business Interests Under Attack in Cyberspace: Is International Regulation the Right Response?

The authors consider some of the pressures on a fully free and open global network from some of the non-U.S. sources pushing for more international Internet regulation and control.

Business & Corporate

The SEC Staff's "Cybersecurity Disclosure" Guidance: Will It Help Investors or Cyber-thieves More?

This piece provides a picture of some of the potentially damaging unintended consequences of the SEC's recently-issued guidance concerning corporate data security practice.

Business & Corporate

Going Mobile: Are Your Company's Electronic Communications Policies Ready to Travel?

Kathleen M. Porter

The author considers how employers can incorporate employee use of mobile communications devices into their employee electronic communications or Internet-usage policies, along with an updated analysis of how some courts have treated employer efforts to access data stored or created on employee devices.

Real Estate

KEEPING CURRENT: Setting the UCC Record Straight on Mortgage Notes

Steven O. Weise

The Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code issued a report that describes the application of selected provisions of UCC Articles 3 and 9 to several key issues that may come up in connection with mortgage notes.

Business & Corporate

DELAWARE INSIDER: In re OPENLANE Bolsters Omnicare and Sheds New Light on Revlon

This article explains the recent OPENLANE decision in the Delaware Court of Chancery and how it interacts with Omnicare and Revlon.

Business & Corporate

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Kathleen Hopkins: Thoughts on Keys to the Courthouse

An interview with Kathleen Hopkins.

Business & Corporate

Inside Business Law

This issue’s Inside Business Law focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions Committee; the Legal Opinions Committee; Cyberspace Law: Disruptive Innovation; and on materials dealing with hedge funds from 2011 ABA Annual Meeting.