E14: The Three Pillars of GDPR
E13: GDPR Wedding Day & Beyond
In Tanium v. Yago et al., the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia recently reminded us of a few things: (1) customer contact information can constitute a trade secret; (2) the Georgia Restrictive Covenant...more
I hope that, by now, everyone understands and appreciates just how freakishly sensitive the regulators are to misconduct involving the wrongful sharing of confidential information. If you don’t, however, FINRA was kind enough...more
The Fifth Circuit affirmed the confirmation of an arbitration ruling in favor of Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. In 2015, Ameriprise sought a temporary restraining order against Jeremy Walker, a former employee of an...more
Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini provided insight on a case involving a plaintiff’s request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against former employees who allegedly stole confidential client contact...more
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has written to the Dutch Banking Association to state that processing customers' transaction data for direct marketing purposes may not be in compliance with the General Data Protection...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit considered the oft-litigated issue of what constitutes reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy of a claimed trade secret in Yellowfin Yachts v. Barker Boatworks, a case...more
On June 6, 2018, the Office of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“the NLRB” or “the Board”) published its most recent memo concerning employer handbook policies. The memo’s guidance reflects a stark...more
Anyone working in the healthcare industry knows the saying: “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It’s one of the most common adages used when discussing the benefits of a healthy lifestyle or the importance of...more
The Protocol for Broker Recruiting (“Protocol”) allows for reciprocal poaching of brokers. More specifically, if a broker leaves one Protocol firm for another Protocol firm, the broker can a) take certain account information...more
The law firm that inadvertently produced records containing personally-identifying information (“PII”) relating to 50,000 Wells Fargo customers in response to a third-party subpoena, which we first reported on, went before a...more
Employers can prohibit the use by employees of the names, social security numbers and credit card numbers of customers in furtherance of organizational activities. If this seems like it should have been a foregone conclusion,...more