One of the biggest challenges for U.S. employers, investigators, and e-discovery practitioners in cross-border litigation involving European companies or citizens has been obtaining digital data about European individuals. The privacy rights European citizens have ' under both EU and member state law ' are significant.
Today's legal departments are undergoing fundamental changes thanks in part to the imminent threat of ongoing cyberattacks. Given the massive breaches at some of the world's visible brands, it is increasingly clear that cybersecurity can no longer be regarded as the exclusive domain of IT.
Lawyers love a debate, and it looks like a doozy is set concerning nonlawyer ownership of law firms (NLO).
Patent box is the catchy shorthand label that has been given to the tax incentive programs for intellectual property assets that have recently sprung up all over the world. While it may be descriptive of the British system, it is hardly descriptive of most tax regimes in other nations.
A significant problem confronting many debtors seeking to reorganize through Chapter 11 involves the resolution of labor contract issues. A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will likely impact how that problem is solved by debtors teetering on the brink of, or already in, Chapter 11 where their operative collective bargaining agreement has or soon will expire.
The year 2005 really marked the beginning of the "era of data breaches," and with it, the "era of data breach lawsuits." In its place, what is now commonplace in the wake of major data breaches ' class action "privacy" litigation on behalf of data subjects, seeking millions of dollars in damages, under a dizzying array of legal theories.
Like many others, parties engaged in or deriving income from the legal commercialization of medical marijuana, either directly or through another party are not immune to financial distress, and sometimes, seeking bankruptcy relief may be strategic or necessary. Unfortunately, Marijuana-Related Parties have found elusive the protections and benefits under the Bankruptcy Code.
If you are advising a health care provider entity, such as a nursing home, what can you tell them regarding their liability? Is the institution itself at risk because of the personal failings of certain employees? What if it is staffed by independent contractors? Can a uniform plan or employee manual be developed, and will that help?
Fed. Cir.: PTAB Panel That Institutes Inter Partes Review May Also Make Final Decision on the Merits
Federal Circuit: Ambiguous Testimony Failed To Show Infringement
In January, the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision, in an 8-1 vote, in Montanile v. Board of Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan, an Eleventh Circuit case in which an ERISA health plan sought to recover medical benefits paid to an injured participant after that participant's personal injury settlement funds had already been spent. Here's an analysis of that ruling.
