FRB recently launched the Deep Bench Briefings, a webinar series designed for Founders, CEOs, General Counsels, and Chief Legal Officers who need actionable, business-first legal guidance without the fluff. In our first...
By: Matthew E. Foreman, Megan E. Wilson, and Bristol Francis Introduction Effective December 24, 2025, the United States Postal Service (“USPS”) amended the Domestic Mail Manual (the “D.M.M.”) by introducing section...
A federal court in the Southern District of New York just ruled that some conversations with AI chatbots are not protected by attorney-client privilege, even if you later share the output with your lawyer. For this reason, we...
Over the past year, crypto legal strategy has shifted from defensive positioning to proactive engagement with regulators, product teams, and market structure policy. In a recent episode of Block & Order, Kraken Chief...
By: Michael L. Moskowitz, Esq. Merchant cash advance (“MCA”) providers have long relied on form agreements and carefully chosen labels—purchase of future receivables, not a loan, no fixed term—to insulate their...
Big News for Licensees Not In Compliance with New Distancing Rules from Schools & Houses of Worship
Feb 17, 2026
By: Andrew P. Cooper, Esq., LL.M. Recently, Governor Hochul signed Assembly Bill A10140 into law, providing critical relief and regulatory certainty to cannabis dispensaries impacted by the proximity measurement controversy...
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Elizabeth E. Schlissel, Esq. KEY TAKEAWAYS A New York Federal court just held that documents generated using an AI tool (Claude) and later shared with his attorneys are not protected by...
The Block & Order Brief: Audits, State Power, Market Infrastructure, and January’s Signals of Maturity
Feb 06, 2026
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. January underscored a quiet but consequential shift in the digital asset industry. Across recent Block & Order conversations and the January Weekly Dockets, the message...
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. When Steven Baum joined Block & Order, he made a counterintuitive observation about digital assets: crypto is not hard to audit because it is opaque. In many cases, it...
Tokenization: The Most Anticipated, and Perhaps the Most Misunderstood, New Technology of the Decade
Feb 05, 2026
By: Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. and Moish E. Peltz, Esq. In the early days of 2026, you can’t open your internet browser, check the news or talk to a neighbor without hearing the word tokenization. To some, it’s the dawn of a...