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This is the third in an ongoing series of articles that will provide franchise attorneys with practical advice about arbitration.
In July, U.S. prosecutors said they had uncovered the largest credit card fraud operation in U.S. history and arrested six men in Russia and Ukraine. More than 160 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen, costing the victim companies more than $300 million. It's no wonder that senior in-house lawyers in the recently released Winston & Strawn "International Business Risk Survey" say that their top concern in following data privacy laws is customer data ' including data security and risk.
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In today's age of endless content recycling, the provenance of any particular published work can be disguised or ignored as it is churned through multiple media ' including on the Internet in social media. Consequently, it can be difficult for authors and creators to identify and assert their rights in their published works in every circumstance where they might have been licensed or are being used. But for licensors to overlook these rights brings peril.
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A '79 group benefit plan has funding and timing opportunities similar to qualified plans without the added expenses and discrimination testing of '401(a)-type plans. The reporting at the employer level is less complex and draconian. Nevertheless, as with all accounting issues, it is up to the employer's accountant to interpret FASB statements and opinions, and make the final decision as to how individual transactions are reflected on the employer's financial statements.
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In recent years, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought far fewer revenue recognition and other financial reporting cases than it had historically. That leads us naturally to wonder whether this trend will continue in the future. Not likely.
Why do so many attorneys worry about their state bar advertising rules when considering using social media? Is it concern over the vague and often sweeping nature of these rules? The uncertain and shifting forms of communication they can have with close friends and strangers alike?
Posting a sexually insulting comment on the Facebook social media network constitutes the crime of harassment, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled in upholding a teenage woman's criminal conviction.
While technology, data and the resulting "insights" are at the core of any successful client-law firm relationship, perhaps the real underlying factors for success are communication, collaboration and trust. The question for many legal professionals remains which comes first, the technology or the trust?