October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign led by the Department of Homeland Security, in order to raise awareness about cybersecurity. You may think that you and your business are fully aware of cybersecurity threats […]
Lots of people and companies buy old debt—for example, hedge funds, private equity firms, and even some commercial bank affiliates. Typically, this is debt that the original creditor has charged off and sold for a fraction of the legal balance. […]
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and Week Two focuses on the protection of data in the workplace. “We are all part of protecting personal and organizational data in the workplace. From CEO to incoming entry-level employee, each […]
The Fifth Circuit’s October 4 decision in Reyna v. International Bank of Commerce, 2016 WL 5799283, has some valuable information for employers analyzing arbitration agreements with employees or facing Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claims. In short […]
Trade secret and noncompetition lawsuits are common in the energy industry because non-public technology and the need to protect it can be important to an energy company’s success. One example of such a lawsuit is C&J Energy Services, Ltd. v […]
Last week, shale giant Chesapeake Energy Corporation filed its Form 8-K with the SEC, revealing that it had received additional Department of Justice subpoenas “seeking information on [Chesapeake’s accounting methodology for the acquisition and classification […]
Johnson & Johnson has produced a Wi-Fi enabled One Touch Ping insulin pump system that allows users to send commands to the pump. This pump has been on the market for eight years, and as a result the system in the pump is not encrypted. This […]
Should community and regional banks operating outside of New York care about the proposed regulation? Yes. There are at least three reasons why. The bottom line is that the proposed regulation calls for tighter cybersecurity standards and may have long […]
The new overtime regulations announced in May, which among other things raised the salary for the white collar exemptions from $23,660 to $47,476, were set to go in effect on December 1, 2016. But on Wednesday, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of […]
Marcy Rothman spoke today at the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel Fall Meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. The topic was implicit bias in voir dire (jury selection). Judge Bennett is […]
On Thursday, September 22, 2016, Yahoo publicized a 2014 data breach “associated with at least 500 million user accounts.”[1] This may be the largest data breach ever, in terms of those affected.[2] Experts believe it could have a ripple effect […]
In Daugherty v. Convergent Outsourcing, Inc., the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a collection letter that is silent as to litigation, but which offers to “settle” a time-barred debt without acknowledging that such debt is judicially unenforceable […]