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 […]
George Barber, Joseph Coleman, and Joseph Friedman were ranked in the area of Business Bankruptcy once again. Jason Binford was also recognized by Super Lawyers in the Business Bankruptcy rankings for the first time after being selected for Texas Rising […]
In June 2016, the Texas Supreme Court issued two opinions interpreting the applicability of Chapter 95 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code. While members of the Plaintiff's bar may be celebrating one of the Court's rulings, property owners […]