Compliance

Covid Litigation Dog Not Barking

An anticipated surge in litigation blaming companies for exposing workers and consumers to the coronavirus at this point shows no […]

In Celebrity Law Firm Ransom Attack, Hackers Up The Ante, Threaten Trump

New York’s Grubman, Shire, Meiselas & Sacks has been hit with a crippling ransom attack by the hacker group REvil, […]

Money Laundering And Anti-Terrorist Risk Management For Lawyers

Although lawyers are not regulated to the extent that bankers are with regard to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) […]

Arbitration

Pandemic Should Expand Compliance Officer’s Role

The pandemic has created an opportunity to leverage the huge potential of combining ethics, enterprise risk management and compliance. These […]

State Courts Have Turned Into Bill Collectors

Over a period of about three decades, the way state courts are used has fundamentally changed. In 1990, they typically […]

A Warning To Companies About Breach Notification

It’s become common wisdom – gleaned in part from witnessing some disastrous missteps by companies like Yahoo and credit reporting […]

Assessing The Contractual Impacts of COVID-19

How are contract obligations affected in times of extreme uncertainty? This post looks first at the force majeure clause and how it might apply when contract non-performance is the result of supply chain…

Status Report: Pandemic-Related Class Actions In Four Areas

In the banking sector, small businesses and some individuals have claimed lenders are imposing their own criteria for processing PPP loans, in addition to those mandated by the CARES Act. The first of these targeted….

Pandemic Creates Material Disclosure Risks

Financial and other uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are creating disclosure issues for companies across all industries. Barrie Brejcha, […]

Do Workers Face Covid Risk From The New Joint Employer Ruling?

The general counsel of the Service Employees International Union calls it “outrageous and shameful.” The NLRB ruling, which went into […]

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