On the eve of a trial that was scheduled to begin Monday in the Western District of Texas, Samsung agreed Thursday to resolve a suit by Proxense LLC alleging the Samsung Pay feature on its smartphones infringes three biometric authentication patents.

David L. Hecht of Hecht Partners LLP, co-lead counsel for the company, said Thursday that "Mr. Giobbi, CEO and chief inventor of Proxense LLC, is thrilled with the result that we achieved, although he was looking forward to telling the story of his many inventions to the world."

“Crain’s New York Business has recognized Kathryn Lee Boyd among its list of “Notable Women in Law.””

“Hecht Partners LLP announces that Lawrence Steckman and Adam Rader have joined the firm at its New York office as partners. Steckman and Rader, previously at Offit Kurman, P.A., bring extensive experience in international and domestic commercial litigation, intellectual property, and business law and transactions.”

“David L. Hecht is engaged to challenge Apple’s claims of intellectual property violations, offered as grounds for firing Ashley Gjøvik after she raised concerns of environmentally unsafe working conditions.”

“Partners David L. Hecht and Shira Lauren Feldman have been selected to this year's New York Metro Super Lawyers and Rising Stars list based on their professional accomplishments and academic credentials, as well as pro bono and community service. This is his seventh and her third consecutive year on the list.”

“Searching for Justice After the Holocaust contains the Study in full, providing an exhaustively researched, effectively presented, and unprecedented resource for understanding the history and current state of Holocaust immovable property restitution. The book also addresses broader trends and concerns within the area of Holocaust restitution law. While several of these trends would benefit from additional exposition, the book’s repository of information provides a foundation for future discussion and analysis.”

Judge Alison J. Nathan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that a class action can move forward against French bank BNP Paribas S.A., for conspiracy and aiding and abetting human rights violations in Sudan from 1997 to 2009.

BNP Paribas will have to defend itself against a U.S. lawsuit claiming the bank facilitated human rights abuses in the Sudan, after a New York federal judge rejected parts of its request to dismiss the case.

BNP Paribas will have to defend itself against a U.S. lawsuit claiming the bank facilitated human rights abuses in the Sudan, after a New York federal judge rejected parts of its request to dismiss the case.

Yesterday, the U.S Supreme Court by a vote of 5 to 4 vacated the Trump administration’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program. While the Court conceded that the administration has the ultimate authority to end DACA, it ruled that the procedural requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) were not satisfied. Under the Court’s decision, the administration will have an opportunity to terminate DACA again.

Protecting one’s “likeness” has never been more important than now, with the rise of and easy access to deepfake technology which enables anyone with a computer to create videos of people saying or doing things that they did not actually say or do.

If you shoot a man in Reno, Nevada, just to watch him die, why are you doing time in Folsom Prison, California?

Not long ago, I was taking a deposition a few hundred miles and a couple of states south of New York, which is the office I work out of. Driving back to the airport, Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues came on my playlist, and a question occurred to me:

If you shoot a man in Reno, Nevada, just to watch him die, why are you doing time in Folsom Prison in California?