SCOTUS has once again clarified a court’s power to compel arbitration, this time in the context of conflicting delegation clauses. In doing so, the Court aptly acknowledged its standing tri-layered analysis of arbitral...more
5/29/2024
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Arbitrators ,
Business Litigation ,
Coinbase ,
Coinbase Inc v Suski et al ,
Crypto Exchanges ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Delegation Clauses ,
SCOTUS ,
Sweepstakes
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden signed into law the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act, which aims to protect U.S. intellectual property by imposing sanctions on companies and individuals involved in trade...more
How does a company keep its trade secrets secret? What can companies do to protect their confidential information? In Episode 10 of the Hiring to Firing Podcast, Troutman Pepper Partners Tracey Diamond and Evan Gibbs sat down...more
Join Troutman Pepper White Collar and Litigation Partner Cal Stein for a special podcast series, discussing the legal landscape surrounding the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
In this fourth...more
On Jan. 4, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling in Kauders v. Uber Technologies Inc. that has important implications for the enforceability of online and/or app contracts, and the arbitration agreements...more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published new guidance for employers, building owners and managers, and building operations specialists who are preparing office buildings to resume operations....more
Health care professionals, hospitals and other health care facilities are critical to the nation’s efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic, and they are under incredible strain caused by challenges such as widespread...more
The unprecedented health emergency and closely related economic crisis created by COVID-19 have triggered a wave of putative class action and individual lawsuits targeting a wide range of businesses. ...more
4/28/2020
/ Advertising ,
Banks ,
CARES Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Fees ,
Goods or Services ,
Material Adverse Effects ,
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) ,
Performance Standards ,
Personal Protective Equipment ,
Price Gouging ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Securities Litigation ,
Securities Violations ,
Supply Chain
Troutman Sanders and Pepper Hamilton are producing a series of podcasts to discuss litigation topics that have been brought to the forefront by the COVID-19 pandemic and how businesses might be able to prepare and...more
On March 18, President Donald Trump issued an executive order finding that the “health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19, including personal protective equipment and ventilators” meet certain...more
While our economy has slowed, it has not stopped. Businesses that continue, even if in a less robust fashion, will continue to make deals and contracts. This article provides guidance on how those new contracts can address...more
Over the past seven days, our COVID-19 Task Force has developed significant experience across the nation assisting businesses with assessing whether they can and/or should remain open and, if so, under what circumstances in...more
As local governments seek to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), states, counties and cities have issued executive orders, recommendations and mandatory restrictions that limit business operations and public...more
“The immunity provision of the Defend Trade Secrets Act creates serious risk for companies: A whistleblower could expose a company to civil and criminal penalties stemming from the company’s alleged misconduct and...more
1/28/2020
/ Confidential Information ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Criminal Penalties ,
Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) ,
Immunity ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Misappropriation ,
Penalties ,
Risk Management ,
Trade Secrets ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
Imagine that your company has just commenced an internal compliance investigation in response to an allegation that the company is violating various federal laws. The next day, a longtime employee with access to the company’s...more
9/13/2019
/ Confidential Information ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) ,
Disclosure ,
Ex Parte ,
Immunity ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Internal Investigations ,
Misappropriation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Popular ,
Safe Harbors ,
Trade Secrets ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
Ruling affects approximately 5,000 U.S. companies that have relied on the Safe Harbor to transfer personal data from the EU to the United States.
Key Points -
- The approach of the U.S. government to personal...more
10/7/2015
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Transfers ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
International Data Transfers ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Privacy Laws ,
Safe Harbors ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
The decision could affect the thousands of U.S. companies in diverse industries that rely on the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Agreement to legally transfer personal data of EU citizens from the EU to the United States....more
9/25/2015
/ Advocate General ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Transfers ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Personal Data ,
PRISM Program ,
Safe Harbors ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
Microsoft Corp. is appealing the recent decision of U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska which requires the company to disclose the contents of e-mails stored at a data center in Dublin, Ireland, in compliance with a warrant...more
9/10/2014
Following the July 31, 2014 decision of a New York federal judge in In re Warrant to Search a Certain E-mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corp., 1:13-mj-02814 (SDNY), U.S. companies should be aware that data...more