Next week I will be speaking in Oslo on #SpaceSustainability at the IV Seminar Series on International Space Law, ‘International Space Law in Transformation: Critical Perspectives at the Intersections of International Law. https://www.jus.uio.no/nifs/english/research/events/2026/Seminar-series-o...
On Friday, May 8, 2026 at 1:00 PMFrancesca Giannoni-Crystal will present the program Cross-Border Ethics: Navigating Conflicting Rules Across Jurisdictions. This program addresses how to determine the applicable ethical rules when a lawyer’s conduct implicates more than one jurisdiction, focus...
Today, April 16, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal presented a CLE on how U.S. courts approach attorney–client privilege in cross-border and international contexts, focusing on a question that has become increasingly difficult in modern practice: which law governs privilege? Cross-border legal work...
On April 16 at 1:00 PM EST, Francesca Giannoni_Crystal will discuss how U.S. courts approach privilege choice-of-law in cross-border and international contexts, focusing on the fragmentation among competing frameworks: lex fori, Restatement (Second) § 139, “center of gravity,” “touch base,”...
On March 18, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal spoke on a panel addressing the legal framework governing space resource utilization, together with Neha Dagley and Rossana Deplano, with Kenneth Altshuler as moderator. The program was organized by Chris Salvino of Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLC. It is part...
On March 11, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will speak on a panel on attorney–client privilege and work product protection in the corporate setting. The program will discuss how privilege applies to internal investigations, regulatory scrutiny, and communications involving third parties, with a ...
On March 18, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will present on a panel discussion on the legal issues surrounding space resource utilization. The panel will address emerging questions such as whether companies may own resources they extract from the Moon and how international law applies if multiple ...
On February 25, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will serve as a panelist in the CLE program “Working Remotely and Attorney–Client Privilege: Legal Ethics.” The program will explore lawyers’ confidentiality and privilege obligations when working in remote and non-traditional environments, in...
t the Colloquium on Space-Cyber Power (a project of Indiana University’s Space Governance Lab), taking place January 29–30, 2026, our co-authored paper with Prof. Charles Stotler, Cybersecurity in Space: The Attribution Advantage?, will be presented on Day 1 (January 29, 2026, 4:55–5:25 pm). T...
On December 15, 2025, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will present a webinar examining the legal and ethical questions emerging from the development of lunar activities and the growing interest in space resource utilization (SRU). Date & Time: Monday, December 15, 202512:00 PM – 1:00 PM (ET)Duratio...
On December 5, 2025, Nathan Crystal and Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will present “Choice of Law and Conflicts of Interest: One Misstep Can Trigger Multi-State Discipline and Liability.” We’ll discuss how lawyer misconduct can trigger overlapping risks — from discipline and malpractice to di...
Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will be speaking on #HumanRights in Space Settlements as part of the panel “Future Settlements and Realising Human Rights” at the University of Waikato’s virtual conference “Outer Space, New Technology and Future Space Settlement: Human Rights for the Final Frontie...
Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will be presenting a program on a form of misconduct that was once dismissed as “private” but in fact profoundly affects the legal profession and the justice system: sexual and relationship scandals involving lawyers and judges. These incidents are not isolated — the...
The 2025 Edition of Nathan Crystal’s Annotated Rules of Professional Conduct has just been released. This volume (Table of Contents: https://www.scbar.org/media/fkthjeep/annotated-sc-rules-of-prof-conduct-2025-edition-table-of-contents.pdf) is an essential resource for all lawyers in South Carolin...
On February 27, 2025, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal and Nathan Crystal will speak on a program addressing the growing risks of unauthorized practice of law in an era of remote and virtual legal services. The program will examine how cross-border virtual practice can create regulatory and disciplinary r...
On February 27, 2025 at 1 EST, Nathan Crystal and Francesca GCrystal will be discussing of virtual practice for lawyers in the CLE “Unauthorized Practice of Law by Remote Attorneys: What Attorneys Should Know About Virtual Law Practice, Supervision and Risk Management.” Unauthorized practice (...
Nathan M. Crystal spoke at the 2025 #SCBarConvention on Thursday, January 16, 2025, from 2–3:30 p.m. in Columbia, SC. Together with Professors Sella-Villa and Virzi, he explored “The Legal Landscape’s Use of Generative #AI: Understanding Ethical Rules & Responsibilities.” The...
Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, The Legality of Defending Lunar Activities on the Moon, 16 Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. 137 (2025). https://harvardnsj.org/2025/01/12/the-legality-of-defending-national-activities-on-the-moon/ Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, Cyberattacks on Lunar Satellites (and Other Non-Earth...
Nathan Crystal continues to write his bimonthly column on Ethics Watch for the South Carolina Lawyer. He has published the following articles this year: Ancillary Business Ethics, 34 S. Carolina Lawyer 15 (Jan. 2023); Dual Purpose Attorney-Client Communications: Does the Privilege Apply, 34 S. Carol...
Nathan Crystal and Craig Dobson spoke at a Practicing Law Briefing attended by close to 1000 lawyers. Their topic was “A Lawyer’s Duty of Competence in a Changing Legal Environment.”...
On March 17, 2023, Nathan Crystal spoke at a program sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law honoring the “The Jurisprudence and Legacy of The Honorable Joseph F. Weis Jr.” The title of his speech was: A “Philosophy of Lawyering based on Judge Weis’s Nuanced Method ...
This is an abstract of the program that I co-presented with Craig Dobson and that had more than 600 attendees from all across the country. Professionalism in Context: Examples and Approaches The program focused on development of a philosophy of lawyering, including the relationship between zeal an...
Traditionally, NY case law considered foreign entities registered to do business in New York as having affirmatively consented to the state’s general personal jurisdiction. See, STX Panocean (UK) Co. v. Glory Wealth Shipping Pte Ltd., 560 F.3d 127, 131 (2d Cir. 2009); Augsbury Corp. v. Petrokey Co...
The Ufficio Studi del Consiglio Nazionale Forense (Research Office of the Italian Bar Association) clarified, already in December 2017 that Italian attorneys do not have a duty to communicate in writing to the client an estimate indicating the cost of their professional service and specify their exp...
The Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association recently issued an opinion on the ethical propriety of referral fees by and to lawyers for non-legal services. Opinion No. 1162 (01/17/2019). The Committee opined as follows: A lawyer who has a business performing non-lega...
On January 3, 2019, the Fourth Circuit ruled that plaintiff suing a credit union over website’s lack of compliance with ADA (American with Disabilities Act) does not have standing if plaintiff is not a customer and is barred by law from becoming one (Clarence Griffin v. Department of Labor Federal...
On October 24, 2018, the Italian Antitrust Authority (Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato “AGCM”) found that Apple and Samsung infringed the Italian Consumer Code. In particular, according to the AGCM the two companies released firmware updates of mobile phones that have caused serious mal...
On June 25, 2018, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a motion to dismiss, finding that when a controller uses his control to extract a special benefit in a stock sale, at the expense of the company’s minority stockholders, the latter may sue directly. In addition, the transfer of corporate asse...
On June 13, 2018, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina denied a request for venue change. The plaintiff had filed in the forum indicated in a forum selection clause. The court found the clause mandatory and enforceable. ARCpoint Franchise Grp., LLC v. Blue Eyed Bull I...
The five year timeline for the benchmark survey of the Bureau of Economics Analysis (BEA) – https://www.bea.gov/- on foreign direct investment in the United States just passed. The BE-12 is a comprehensive survey on financial and operating data of U.S. affiliates of foreign multinational enter...
Muchos asumen que si ingresaron ilegalmente a los Estados Unidos, no hay opciones de inmigración disponibles. Sin embargo, quedan varias formas para solicitar una tarjeta de residencia (green card), como probar un “wave through” o presentar una dispensa de presencia ilegal (waiver of un...
Many assume that if they entered the United States illegally, there are no immigration options available to them. However, there are several possible ways that you might be able to apply for a green card, such as proving a “wave through” or filing a waiver of unlawful presence but here we will f...
El 26 de febrero de 2018 el Tribunal Supremo de los EE. UU. denegó la solicitud del Departamento de Justicia de los EE. UU. con la que se pedía una revisión directa de la medida cautelar que puso fin al programa DACA. El Tribunal declaró que el pedido de un writ of certiorari antes del […...
On February 26, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the US Department of Justice’s request for direct review of the preliminary injunction ending the DACA program. The Court stated that “[t]he petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment is denied without prejudice.” This means that f...
Mucha gente cree que con el ingreso ilegal a los Estados Unidos, no le queda ninguna opción de inmigración sin salir del territorio. No es propiamente así, hay varias formas disponibles en las que uno no tenga que irse para solicitar su tarjeta verde (green card). Aquí nos enfocaremos en una sol...
On February 28, 2018, 19 entities signed an open letter addressed to the EU Commissioner for Competition Margarethe Vestager, commenting on the remedy taken by Google after the EU Antitrust’s fine of € 2.42 billion. The amount of the fine took into account the duration and gravity of the ...
Many assume that if they entered the United States illegally, there are no immigration options available without leaving the United States. There are several possible ways that you might not have to leave in order to apply for your green card, but here we will focus on just one—the wave-through or...
Forbes recently published a list of the 100 richest people in tech. See here: https://www.forbes.com… None of these people are Italian residents. After considering the benefit of the new Italian flat tax for billionaires, they might want to reconsider their options. The 2017 Italian Budget ...
On January 13, 2018, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) posted instructions for DACA applicants to resume filing applications. Following Judge Alsup’s federal court order, the DACA policy will be operated on the terms in place before it was rescinded on Sept. 5, 2017. See here...
El 13 de enero de 2018, el US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) publicó instrucciones para los solicitantes de DACA. Debido a una orden del juez federal Alsup, USCIS ha anunciado que la política de DACA operará en los términos existentes antes de que fuera rescindida el 5 de septiembre...
On January 16, 2018, the US Department of Justice appealed before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alsup’s federal court order blocking the government from ending the DACA program. On the same date, the Department of Justice said that, within a few days, it will also file a petition for a ...
On December 2017, Italy passed a 3% tax on certain internet transactions concerning services through electronic means. The 3% tax will be calculated on the value of the transaction (VAT excluded), notwithstanding where the transaction is executed. Services provided through electronic means includ...
On December 1, 2017, a D.C. District Court vacated the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to delay the implementation of an Obama-era immigration rule, the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), 82 Fed. Reg. 5,238 (Jan. 17, 2017). In order to increase and enhance entrepreneurship, i...
On July 1, 2017, the new Connecticut Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (LLC Act) entered into force. The LLC Act changed the laws governing limited liability companies (LLCs). It applies to domestic and foreign LLCs. Among its major provisions, the LLC Act: adds more detailed provisions on fiduc...
We have been reading some commentaries to the effect that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) needs to be transposed with special legislation adopted in the several EU member states. That there will be legislation is true, but the statement is misleading. Make no mistake: the GDPR is an EU...
In November 2017, the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) made available a report containing useful information on bilateral investments between USA and Italy. Two important pieces of information: Italy holds its 16th place among the investing countries in US and ranked 26th in the list of countries attrac...
On September 12, 2017, the EU Parliament adopted a resolution on the implementation of the “Mediation Directive” (Directive 2008/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the......
Below you may find a list of the requirements for an E-2 Investor Visa. For a list of E-2 treaty countries, click here. If a principal investor, you must be coming to the United States to “develop and direct” the business, e.g., owning at least 50% of the investment. Employees who work in certai...
Many assume that if they entered the United States illegally, there are no immigration options available to them. There are many possibilities, but here we will focus on just one—a family-based petition with a waiver of unlawful presence. Assume someone entered the United States illegally—for ex...
Para aquellos cuyos DACA expiran pronto – sin la opción de renovación o extensión – es importante saber que se acumula presencia ilegal desde la fecha de su vencimiento. Aunque DACA no califica como un período de presencia legalmente autorizada, según el gobierno, los extranjeros no...
El 5 de septiembre de 2017, el U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ha anunciado la rescisión de la Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) y ha publicado el Memorandum on Rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). ¿Qué es DACA? DACA es un programa establecido...
El 5 de septiembre de 2017, el U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) anunció la rescisión de la Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Aquí más información sobre lo que es DACA y cómo se termina. Solicitud inicial. El DHS rechazará todas las solicitudes iniciales de DACA y soli...
For those whose DACA will expire soon – without the option of renewal or extension – it is important to consider that you may begin to accrue unlawful presence on the date of expiration. Even though DACA does not qualify as a period of authorized stay, the government decided that fore...
On September 22, 2017, the EU Delegation to the United Nations hosted Investment Plan for Europe – A Status Update, a program sponsored by the European American Chamber of Commerce, EACC. Speakers included Joao Vale de Almeida, Head of Delegation, EU Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambroise ...
On September 13, 2017, ten U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in federal court (D. Mass) challenging searches and seizure of travelers’ personal electronic devices in violation of privacy and free speech protections of the U.S. Constitut...
The SC Bar International Law Committee, in conjunction with Trident Technical College, sponsored a free legal clinic for entrepreneurs in North Charleston on Thursday, May 18. The clinic, titled Technology and International Issues for Entrepreneurs, included information on general corporate issues, ...
Sooner or later, we must all face the fact that Donald Trump won the election and is now president. For foreign nationals in the United States, the sooner the better. Exactly what this means for immigrants—documented or undocumented—nobody really knows. Within days of taking office, Trump caused...
From July 11-15, 2016, the 14th Round of negotiations for the transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and the EU took place in Brussels. The Report is now available. This Round saw about 30 textual exchanges containing proposals for almost all chapters on the table now....
On March 1, Professor Crystal will speak at the SC Law Rev. Symposium (Columbia, SC) titled “The Practice of law in the 21st Century – The Intersection of Law and Technology” – Title of presentation: “Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Materials: Ethical and Legal Iss...
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