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ABA Issues Formal Ethics Opinion on Use of Generative AI Tools

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 8/20/2024

Following in the footsteps of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the state bars of California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, the American Bar Association has weighed in on attorneys' ethical use of...more

‘No Evidence’: Judges Toss KU Researcher’s Conviction; Reinstatement Battle Is Next

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 8/6/2024

“I am writing with good news!!! Yesterday, the 10th Circuit overturned Franklin’s only remaining conviction and ordered the trial judge to enter a verdict of NOT GUILTY!!! After five long and difficult years, Franklin has...more

OCR Finalizes Post-Dobbs HIPAA Regulatory Changes Impacting Health Care Organizations

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. on 6/24/2024

On April 22, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final regulatory updates to the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of...more

Senate Policy Roadmap Steers Generative AI Toward Transparency

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/6/2024

In May 2024, the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group released a roadmap to guide artificial intelligence (AI) policy in several sectors of the US economy, including intellectual property (IP)...more

IRS Data Leak Hits Home: Actions for Taxpayers in the Wake of the Littlejohn IRS Data Breach

ArentFox Schiff on 5/14/2024

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has begun the process of informing over 70,000 taxpayers that their confidential tax information was leaked in a widespread breach by a former IRS contractor. Those impacted should take...more

Privacy Briefs: May 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/13/2024

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more

A Note of Caution: Data Breach Reports May be Discoverable

Warner Norcross + Judd on 3/20/2024

An organization that has suffered a data breach likely does not want to have to disclose potentially embarrassing or harmful information, especially in a lawsuit resulting from the breach. Simply involving an attorney in...more

Swiss Finance Company to Pay Almost $4 Million for Sanctions Violations

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 3/20/2024

On March 14, the U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that EFG International AG (EFG), a Switzerland-based bank, had agreed to pay roughly $3.74 million to settle allegations that it had...more

Arbitrator Ethics and the Panama Canal Case: the Eleventh Circuit Rejects an “Evident Partiality” Challenge to an Arbitration...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/15/2023

Users of commercial arbitration — particularly those that employ the top institutional rules, such as those of the ICC or ICDR-AAA — have a number of basic expectations. They want their dispute to be decided by competent,...more

What Does the SEC’s Complaint Against SolarWinds Mean for CISOs and Boards?

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/7/2023

On October 30, 2023, the SEC filed a litigated complaint against SolarWinds, a software development company, and Timothy Brown, its chief information security officer (CISO). The SEC alleges that from October 2018, when...more

DOJ: Stanford FCA Case Involved Failures to Disclose Foreign Support From Seven Countries

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/26/2023

Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 11 (November, 2023) It wasn't just China. China is among the countries whose support for Stanford University investigators wasn’t reported to five federal research funding agencies,...more

Not Sorry? Reese's May Be In Trouble For On-Pack Sweepstakes Disclosures

Verrill on 10/19/2023

Being born and raised in Pennsylvania, let me start by saying that I love Reese Cups – a perfect mix of chocolate and peanut butter that just makes you so happy. And of course, Reese’s should not be sorry that they make you...more

Stay ADvised: Brand Protection & Advertising Law News - October 2023

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/10/2023

Setting Its Sights on Eye Health Supplement, NAD Finds Health Claims Insufficiently Supported Despite Peer-Reviewed Evidence - The National Advertising Division (NAD) recommended that an eye health supplement maker,...more

Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update, September 2023

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 9/29/2023

California Legislature Passes Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act - Earlier this month, the California legislature approved SB 253, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253). Starting in 2026, “reporting...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/2/2023

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the newly established data privacy framework between the EU and U.S. and new consumer privacy laws in Oregon and Texas. We also review a court ruling that delayed...more

Privacy Briefs: July 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 7/17/2023

A former hospital worker in Arizona was sentenced to 54 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to two felony counts involving identity theft and health information disclosure. In the plea deal,...more

ESG securitisation disclosure – a moveable feast

Hogan Lovells on 6/6/2023

The securitisation industry is already very familiar with data reporting requirements. The growing need for disclosure supporting sustainability credentials will only add to this. We discuss below issues relating to ESG...more

Privacy Briefs: May 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/12/2023

Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more

SEC Adopts Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 5/4/2023

On May 3, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final share repurchase disclosure rules “to modernize and improve disclosure about repurchases of an issuer’s equity securities that are registered...more

ESG Insights: Silicon Valley’s Largest Public Tech and Life Sciences Companies Stepped Up ESG Reporting Last Year

Fenwick & West LLP on 4/5/2023

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns and how companies respond to them continue to generate scrutiny from a large number of stakeholders. Last year, in our ESG in Silicon Valley: A Look at the ESG Disclosure...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - March 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/16/2023

Circuits Split Over Whether Targeting Is Necessary for Seller Liability - Key Points - - While courts have long held that solicitations must be tailored to a particular audience to precipitate statutory seller liability,...more

Every Scan You Make: The Illinois Supreme Court Rules BIPA Claims Accrue With Each Biometric Data Collection or Disclosure

Perkins Coie on 2/23/2023

The Illinois Supreme Court recently opened the floodgates for class actions under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and created potentially catastrophic exposure for Illinois businesses. In a close 4-3...more

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