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...

By Moish Peltz and Kyle Lawrence 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By: Michael L. Moskowitz, Esq. A recent decision from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York offers a stark reminder that bankruptcy is not a cure-all—particularly when unpaid tax...

By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. When Carlo D’Angelo joined Block & Order, he spoke with unusual confidence about where stablecoins were headed in the United States. At a time when much of crypto...