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In the early morning of March 27, the Senate passed its version of a budget resolution by a vote of 52-46 after a marathon session of votes on numerous amendments.

If a business requires restricted access to its data, the contract with an outsourced vendor should clearly outline the authorization process.

Yesterday, November 12, 2013, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) convened a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety.

Defining and incentivizing high-quality performance is often key to the structure of complex service or technology-oriented agreements.

As companies move to outsource their FM services globally, they are encountering more and more often the question of how to accommodate for inflation, especially with respect to its impact on FM suppliers savings commitments

The FDIC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the "NPR") in which it proposes to amend its regulations under Part 363 (implementing Section 36 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act) concerning annual independent audit and reporting requirements as well as audit committee composition requirements for FDIC-insured financial institutions ("FIs" and each an "FI").

The lead story in today’s front page of the Texas Tribune reports on a hearing before the Texas Workforce Commission where the testimony focused on the intersection of undocumented aliens and independent contractor misclassification.

Responding to a joint letter from the President of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws ("NCCUSL") and the Director of the American Law Institute (the "ALI"), the OCC confirmed that the recently adopted OCC regulations on preemption of state laws, as described in the January 13, 2004 and March 23, 2004 issues of the <I>Alert</I>, do not preempt the Uniform Commercial Code (the "UCC").

Operational risk is on shareholders minds. The topics of interest at last evening’s NACD – Capitol Area chapter event in McLean, VA included the state of the economy, the stock market and our outlook for the remainder of this year.

In these troubled economic times, many of you have identified an urgent need to find opportunities to reduce your costs.

We live in an increasingly connected world. More goods and services move beyond borders and around the world with every passing year. Today more than 90 percent of the world's goods move by sea.

In our previous updates, we discussed outsourcing as a tool for significantly reducing costs (“Outsourcing Services in the Face of an Economic Downturn”) and possible strategies for restructuring existing outsourcing deals as we head into a long-term global recession (“Restructuring Existing Outsourcings”).

Much has been and is being written about outsourcing. Not a legal term, "outsourcing" refers to the arrangement whereby one company looks to another company to perform some aspect of its business operation. It’s like delegating, but at an inter-company rather than intra-company level. It’s like subcontracting, but of an internal corporate function rather than of a contractual responsibility

Companies often talk about implementing risk & reward mechanisms in their IT services or outsourcing relationships, but what does “risk & reward” really mean in practice and is there really such a thing as a genuine, balanced “risk & reward” mechanism?

In addition, in-scope entities that are subject to the cloud recommendations will have to continue to apply these recommendations.

This past month, a number of cases were decided by the courts involving misclassification of employees as independent contractors, but there were no regulatory or legislative actions of note

On July 13, 2005, the Internal REvenue Services ("IRS") published proposed regulations addressing the use of electronic media by employers and plan administrators to provide notices to plan participants and beneficiaries, and by participants to transmit elections or consents relating to employee benefit plans.