Paul I. Menes

Don’t Turn A Blind Eye. You Can Get Sued If The Disabled Can’t Access Your Website

Almost every business has a website to market their information, goods or services.  But, there’s one type of marketing you don’t want your site to accomplish—getting you sued. Websites have become a hotbed of litigation brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”).  Generally speaking, websites need to be as accessible to individuals with disabilities…

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That Sucks For You. But, it doesn’t have to if you’re aware of this.

The Internet Corporation of Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) is the international company that oversees what are called generic top-level domains (“TLD”). These are .com, .net, .org and the others we’re all familiar with and likely use for our businesses and brands. Recently, ICANN approved and delegated about 550 new TLDs. One of them is “.sucks”…

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Psssst.. Your Confidential Information May Not Be Safe

You probably use confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements and confidentiality clauses in various types of business agreements. (I’ll refer to all of these collectively in this blog as “NDAs”).  Their purposes are to protect your valuable confidential or trade secret information (“CI” for purposes of this blog), which are at the heart of a business’s value….

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Some Reality Show Stars Don’t Know Rights From Wrong…Or, Do They?

In an article for The Recorder, Paul I. Menes, Co-Head of the Entertainment and Media Practice at Adli Law Group, discusses the Jenners’ and Kardashians’ regular and repeated infringements of intellectual property and publicity rights of others since 2011. He asks and discusses whether they don’t know any better, or just don’t care”. To read the…

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What Do You Mean We Have A Contract?!

Contract formation is one of the oldest forms of human interaction.  It dates back to the oral contract forming Adam and Eve’s deal with God to live in the Garden of Eden (which of course led to the first breach of contract action—very harsh ruling), progressing to contracts in Neanderthal times created by grunts and…

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