FTC's <i>Wyndham</i> Ruling Raises Data Security and Privacy Issues for Franchisors
In a ruling delivered April 7, a federal judge in New Jersey handed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a resounding victory in the first round of an ongoing court battle regarding its authority as the primary regulator of issues related to consumer data security and privacy in the United States.
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Proactive Trust Planning to Protect Your Clients
The IRS and the Obama administration have taken a less-than-favorable view of some modern trust-planning techniques. Practitioners need to be aware of these risks so that they can encourage clients to act quickly when advisable.
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Longer Medical Leave?
It's a mistaken assumption that if an employee has exhausted all his or her time under the Family and Medical Leave Act, he or she is not entitled to additional leave under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The State of U.S. Cybersecurity: Not So Good
Every day brings new national headlines about a cyberattack, an alarming trend. The latest iteration of an annual report shows that these growing concerns have not necessarily translated into developing and deploying the proper defensive capabilities.
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Practice Tip: Why Plan Administrators Reject QDROs
If there are many reasons that proposed QDROs are rejected, what are a few of the more common ones, and how can they be avoided? This Practice Tip provides some answers.
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Analyzing Child Custody Reports
This is the second installment of a four-part series offering a model for attorneys to use when faced with the task of deconstructing a forensic custody assessment.
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Managing Credit During and After Divorce
If your clients aren't careful to attend to their finances, they could wind up in a major credit hole with no easy way out. Here's how to help them.
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Causes of Action over Property Insurance Coverage
Rarely do lawyers have the benefit of a decision that is a primer on permissible causes of action arising from property insurance coverage disputes.<I>Kings Infiniti v. Zurich American Ins.</I> is one of those decisions.
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Proposed Class in Hulu Privacy Suit Needs Objective Data
With eye-popping damages at stake, a federal magistrate refused to allow consumer plaintiffs to move forward as a class with claims that Hulu violated their privacy by sharing the videos they viewed.
The Transgender Child
A look at gender dysphoria in "a growing cohort of children who, at ages as young as three or four, announce they do not accept ' the gender assigned to them at birth."
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