John B. Quinn is the founder of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, the world's largest law firm devoted solely to business litigation. “Code is law” has become a catchphrase in this age where ...

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A code that can be easily deciphered is worthless—except when it is a law code.A law code succeeds by being easy to read. A new organization, The American Law Institute, met in Washington with the ...

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UpCodes wants to fix one of the building industry’s biggest headaches by streamlining code compliance. But the Y Combinator-backed startup now faces a copyright lawsuit filed against it by the ...

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). Though both focus on the building industry (specifically, ...