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Powering Through the Environmental Challenges of EV Development - Energy Law Insights
Exploring Challenges and Opportunities Within the EV Infrastructure Sector With Kerri Stewart - TAG Infrastructure Talks Podcast
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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The CARS Rule: What You Need To Know About the Federal Trade Commission’s Final Motor Vehicle Dealer Trade Regulation Rule, Part I
Unpacking California's 2024 Zero Emission Fleet Mandate
Breaking Mindsets with Sharon Sorkin from Ford on Being Reliably Transparent
CFPB-New York AG Lawsuit Analyses Against Subprime Auto Financer - The Consumer Finance Podcast
AG's Office Sues Automobile Dealership for Pricing Discrimination - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Loading and Unloading Under GL and Auto Policies: 2022
FTC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Voluntary Products in Automobile Finance Transactions - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Preventing and Detecting Fraud: How to Protect Your Dealership
Five Questions, Five Answers: Driving the I-75 with Rick Walker of GAMA Georgia
Podcast: Buy-Sell Market - Factors to Consider in Transactions of Automotive Dealerships
Five Questions, Five Answers: Electric Mobility Canada on Its Promises for a Cleaner Economy
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In this series, we provide advice on drafting English-language contracts that are governed by German law. We will refer to these as international cooperation agreements moving forward. We focus on automotive finance...more
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The mobility and automotive industry continues to undergo dynamic change. As the market evolves, so does the legal framework for the industry. Dr. Sebastian Keding, Dr. Heiko Kermer, Max Küttner and David G. Schäfer provide...more
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Google has threatened to pull its search engine from the entirety of the Australian continent “if the government approved legislation that would force tech companies to pay for journalism shared on their platforms.” Facebook...more
Four and One-Half Years! January 1, 2021 … at last … at long last as some might celebrate… or, as others might lament, a day which should have never come. Brexit is finally arriving. Four and one-half years have passed...more
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In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more
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The new President of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen promised to put forward legislation “for a coordinated European approach on the human and ethical implications of artificial intelligence” within 100 days...more
Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit claiming that Zuck & Co.’s use of facial recognition technology violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law. Though the settlement is little more than “a...more
A mounting death toll (over 106 and counting) and fears of a coronavirus pandemic sent markets tumbling early on Monday and kicked off a selloff that continued all day....more
Apple stock has surged over the past year, but consumers are divided over the stock price’s future. Apple’s software services and hardware products create an identity crisis that impacts the company’s future valuations....more
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Sunday’s release of a long-awaited Labor Department final rule on joint employment spells trouble for workers hoping to “sue large companies for wrongdoing by contractors or franchisees.” The rule reverses Obama-era policies...more
Oil jumped for a second straight day, with futures near $70/barrel as fallout from the U.S.’s drone-strike assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani continues to raise “the prospect of disruptions in the world’s most important...more
Fiat Chrysler and rival Peugeot have agreed to binding merger terms that, if approved by US and European regulators, would create a “$50 billion auto giant that would rank among the world’s largest car companies by sales”....more