THE VALLEY CURRENT®️ COMPUTERLAW GROUP LLP
Computerlaw Group LLP (www.computerlaw.com) provides strategic, knowledgeable, and effective business and intellectual property protection, licensing and litigation services to Internet, e-commerce, computer software, hardware and other high-tech businesses, teams and industry professionals throughout California, nationally and around the world. CLG produces THE VALLEY CURRENT as a way to keep its worldwide clients, co-counsels, colleagues, and friends aware of developments in Silicon Valley and beyond.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
The Valley Current®: Will AI Fully Automate Residential Real Estate?
Once feared by real estate professionals, handling your next home transaction online is simply the way of the future, and it can’t come fast enough. Could AI be the next major innovation to disrupt …
The Valley Current®: Will A.I. Assist Startups and Startup Investors?
We’ve witnessed unprecedented levels of innovation in the AI world over the last couple of years. Though AI has existed at low levels for decades now, it has gone from being an underperforming pipe …
The Valley Current®: Testing Case Themes With Mock Juries
Anyone who has looked into how movies are made knows that the plot doesn’t really begin to take shape until the storyboarding phase. In law, presenting a case to a jury works similarly, but throwing…
The Valley Current®: Tax Planning in light of Moore v. USA
When Trump overhauled the tax code in 2017, a one-time repatriation tax was enacted on foreign earnings. Like many Americans, the Moores were invested overseas when they received a $15,000 tax bill.…
The Valley Current®: What is the C-Suite Outlook for 2024?
At the end of December, we welcome each new year with wonder and excitement of what things may come. After a rough year of two wars, high interest rates and a stock market that keeps going, 2024 is …
The Valley Current®: Climate in the Chance Age
Powerful computer programs are accurately simulating the uncertainty of climate change. These models underlie the growing business of climate risk, which in turn supports mitigation planning and the …
The Valley Current®: Climate Change in 9 Minutes
Climate change is a universal crisis, but the way we assess everything related to this crisis is problematic in itself. By definition, Risk = Likelihood x Impact (or Probability x Liability) which s…
The Valley Current®: Can AI-Based LegalTech Eventually Replace Mediators?
The Valley Current®: Tale of Two Cases in NYC: Federal v. State Fraud Cases
“It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” This second, lesser-known line from A Tale of Two Cities has never felt more applicable when you read about the two most notable cases curr…
The Valley Current®: Will Real Estate Brokerage Industry Survive Antitrust Litigation?
Have home owners been getting taken advantage of on commissions on sales of their home? The Missouri federal jury in Kansas City says “yes, you have” to sellers in the class a action case covering so…
The Valley Current®: Will billionaires see a wealth tax next?
There’s a new tax form on the market and it’s looking for a piece of your side hustle. The new 1099-K tax form targets independent contractors who are underreporting on small transactions. Sales res…
The Valley Current®: What the Segmented World Means for Our Future
Look around the world and everywhere you go, you will find pockets of innovation and wealth mixed in with areas of poverty and conflict. Though this is by far not a new phenomenon, our awareness of g…
The Valley Current®: Three Challenges China Now Faces – Part 2
For decades China imposed a 1 child policy among their families to curb their rapidly growing population. Some 30 years later, China has painted itself into a corner and the ramifications of reducin…
The Valley Current®: Three Challenges China Now Faces – Part 1
For decades China imposed a 1 child policy among their families to curb their rapidly growing population. Some 30 years later, China has painted itself into a corner and the ramifications of reducin…
The Valley Current®: What Can Childrens Books Teach Us About Leadership?
Storytime is one of the most influential times for children. Childrens' books are loaded with quotes and themes designed to encourage children to become the best people they can be. Over at Discussi…
The Valley Current®: How “Safe” are SAFE Agreements?
Many things are happening in the face of a recession. Angel investors and VCs are tightening their belts & seed-stage startups are trying to gain traction despite a meaningless valuation. As a resul…
The Valley Current®: Are Workspans of Professionals Becoming Longer?
How old is too old to work? You’d assume most people circle the day they turn 65 as either full retirement or the beginning of their phase out period, but working well past that date is becoming mor…
The Valley Current®: Copyright in the 21st Century: Will AI Force Radical Change? - Part 2
When ChatGPT launched in 2022, it felt as if a new future had been revealed to us. Now that AI is freely available, user-friendly, and regularly assisting in the production of products and services,…
The Valley Current®: Copyright in the 21st Century: Will AI Force Radical Change? - Part 1
Copyrights have existed for centuries, and the idea of them dates back even further. United States copyright laws are nothing short of a mess, at least according to Professor Rafael Chodos. Not only…
The Valley Current®: Are AI Tools Going to Automate Tax Returns?
For the average person, tax season officially runs from February 15th to April 15th, but for tax professionals the planning starts mid-November and doesn’t end until New Years Eve. The high-end taxp…