Keeping up with the Joneses is a whole lot easier when you read the JD Supra Corporate Brief every morning: There is no way to keep your company from being hacked. So you need to be prepared… (LXBN) Fasten your seat belts: the road ahead for global economic growth will be bumpy… (Bennett Jones) Corporate… Read more »
Busy morning? You probably deserve a break. A JD Supra Corporate Brief break, that is. And a blueberry scone… Check your mailbox – the FTC is sending out COPPA compliance letters… (Mintz Levin) In the market for a municipal regulated gas division? (Saul Ewing) Appeals court reverses an $11 million False Claims Act judgment with… Read more »
Another day, another JD Supra Corporate Brief. Ain’t life grand? More regulation equals more benefits for global businesses (Reed Smith) Planning to buy cloud-based services? Read this first (Sands Anderson) The EEOC just settled its first ever complaint alleging genetic discrimination under GINA (but it probably won’t be the last…) (Proskauer) Our view: any rule… Read more »
Today’s forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of law news: Will California lawmakers succeed in keeping fracking out of the state? (LXBN) Could President Obama’s proposed new cap on tax-favored retirement benefits do a lot more harm than good? (Osler) According to FINRA, employee social media privacy laws may conflict with securities regulations and threaten… Read more »
Is your business prepared for a cyber attack? It should be, writes Roberta Anderson of K&L Gates: “As the incidences of cyber attacks escalate, the costs associated with attacks are also increasing. In data breach cases, companies may incur substantial expenses relating to federal and state notification requirements… Companies may also face governmental and regulatory… Read more »
“…it appears as though the age of tax-free clicks is coming to an end.” (Looper Reed) Late last month, New York’s highest court ruled that Amazon, Overstock.com, and other Internet retailers who get business from affiliates based in that state could be required to charge sales tax on purchases generated from those relationships. The background,… Read more »
For your convenience, here’s a roundup of recent legal commentary and analysis on a broad range of issues facing companies doing business in and with China, on data privacy and protection, merger control regulations, employment law, intellectual property, corruption, and more: Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Issues Draft Provisions Governing Protection of Personal… Read more »
[Link: AIA Impact on University Innovation and Tech Transfer - Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.] IP lawyer Robert Sterne at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox has a message for universities and technology centers that generate revenue from patent portfolios built around R&D: the America Invents Act (AIA) changes everything. And not in a particularly… Read more »
[Link: gTLD Update for February 2013 - Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.] “The universe of generic top-level domains (gTLDs), currently limited to about a dozen gTLDs such as .com, .net, and .org, will likely explode later this year, as some of the more than 1000 potential new gTLDs are rolled out, including vanity TLDs,… Read more »
“’May I have your zip code?’ is an all-too-familiar question that may be going the way of the dinosaur in Massachusetts.” (Mintz Levin) On March 11, 2013, Massachusetts became the second state in the union after California to prohibit retailers from collecting customer ZIP codes when processing purchases via credit card. The background, from attorneys… Read more »
“The Ninth Circuit has reopened a door for off-label marketing prosecutions, and it is important to review your compliance and risk management programs in light of this recent decision.” (Sheppard Mullin) Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion that sends an important warning to pharmaceutical manufacturers: the First Amendment doesn’t protect off-label marketing… Read more »
The day when robots start doing legal work might come sooner than you think… - Joanne Lee, Foley & Lardner As e-Discovery grows in importance and complexity, many are convinced that predictive coding will revolutionize the industry. For your reference, here’s a look at how predictive coding works, as well as its growing acceptance in… Read more »
[Link: How to Respond to President Obama's Cybersecurity Executive Order] “Cybersecurity” is now front-and-center, thanks to Barack Obama’s executive order on the matter; but the president’s framework will take months to implement. In the meantime, what can business leaders do today to respond to the call for a framework to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure… Read more »
“The European Network and Information Security Agency’s recent report on the cyber threat landscape highlights the vulnerability of network information system technologies, such as cloud computing and associated big data sets, where the concentration of vast amounts of data in few logical locations makes it an attractive target for cyber threat agents.” Do business in… Read more »
“This Executive Order will begin a multi-year legislative and regulatory process that will result in new cybersecurity regulations, information sharing channels and changes in cyber liability for critical infrastructure and government contractors. These changes will create a number of opportunities and risks for companies in a wide range of private sector companies.” (Holland & Knight)… Read more »
