On February 3, 2020, the Second Circuit ruled in favor of Shapiro Arato Bach clients in a fair use copyright case concerning the transformative use of a spoken-word piece. In Estate of James Oscar Smith v. Aubrey Drake Graham, the heirs of jazz musician Jimmy Smith and a company that acquired rights to one of … Read more
Shapiro Arato Bach founding partners Alexandra Shapiro and Cynthia Arato were named to the 2020 Notable Women in Law list by Crain’s New York Business. In its list, the publication honors 100 “dedicated, gifted and determined” women lawyers in New York. See 2020 Notable Women in Law to read the profiles for each of this … Read more
On November 19, 2019, Shapiro Arato Bach partner Cynthia Arato will moderate the New York State Bar Association’s forum The Crisis in Local Journalism: Are Nonprofits the Answer? The forum is part of the bar association’s Task Force on Free Expression in the Digital Age, which Arato co-chairs with David McCraw, Deputy General Counsel of The … Read more
Shapiro Arato Bach partner Cynthia Arato will be a featured panelist at the Music Business and Law Conference on November 15, 2019, at New York Law School. Arato will be speaking as part of the Litigation Update on the Music Front panel. The annual conference is sponsored by the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section … Read more
On November 4, 2019, Shapiro Arato Bach filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court for Power Integrations, Inc. as amicus curiae in support of affirmance in Thryv, Inc. f/k/a Dex Media, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, et al., No. 18-916. This case presents the Supreme Court with yet another question concerning the inter … Read more
On October 22, 2019, the New York Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the decision of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial Department, which reversed the second-degree murder conviction of our client, Robert Neulander, and ordered a new trial. During Dr. Neulander’s trial, a juror repeatedly violated the trial court’s … Read more
On August 1, 2019, Shapiro Arato Bach obtained the dismissal of a tortious interference claim that an investment advisor brought against the firm’s client, Univision Communications Inc., in connection with a transaction involving the satirical website The Onion. The plaintiff in the case is GCA Advisors LLC. GCA alleged that Onion, Inc. hired GCA to help … Read more
Shapiro Arato Bach partner Cynthia Arato was quoted in Bloomberg Law’s coverage of Ariana Grande’s $10 million right-of-publicity lawsuit against Forever 21, Ariana Grande Tests When Lookalikes Can Look Too Much Alike.
On September 24, 2019, Shapiro Arato Bach LLP won a verdict of not guilty on all counts for our client in a five-defendant criminal jury trial in Kings County Supreme Court (People v. Shyknevsky et al., Indictment No. 2160/2017). The jury rejected allegations by the New York State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit that … Read more
Shapiro Arato Bach partners Cynthia Arato and Daniel O’Neill authored an article that has been published in the most recent issue of Intellectual Property Magazine. The article, “A Literary Tale,” concerns the firm’s successful representation of the trustees of the J.D. Salinger Literary Trust in connection with litigation over the unauthorized publication of three of … Read more