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Nearly three years after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first charged that Amazon had unlawfully billed parents for millions of dollars in children's unauthorized in-app charges...

Given the increasing reliance consumers have on product reviews when making purchase decisions, the FTC is honing in on companies' deceptive consumer review practices.

The FTC has proposed a groundbreaking Enforcement Policy Statement that would mandate clear disclosure when businesses use consumer data to set personalized prices. This policy represents the agency's most direct regulatory step toward addressing surveillance pricing practices, requiring companies to reveal not just that prices are personalized, but specifically how customer data informs those pricing decisions.

On March 18, 2020 the New York State Legislature passed, and Governor Cuomo signed into law, a mandatory sick leave law benefitting many employees in New York State affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

In 2016, in contrast, independent PR firms were the buyers in only 59% of the consummated transactions.

Colorado's new employment restrictive covenant law may significantly change the landscape for employee restrictive covenants in the State.

The Second Circuit (which has jurisdiction over New York, Connecticut, and Vermont) is now one of two circuit courts holding that discrimination based on sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination, and prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII).

Joining an expanding list of states and cities that have implemented restrictions on the use of salary history in the hiring process, including New York State, New York City, and California, New Jersey recently passed...

New York employers should review the scope of their electronic monitoring and determine which monitoring processes and activities could be covered by the new legislation.

Earlier this year, New York State significantly expanded its workplace harassment protections. Among these expanded protections is a requirement that employers provide all employees...

On her first day on the job, Johnson was presented with a restrictive covenant agreement which had not been provided to her when she accepted her offer of employment.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a new rule that aims to change how employers assess whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act...

The trends in auto lending and the securitization of auto loans are reminiscent of the run-up in subprime mortgage lending and issuance of residential subprime mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).

As the economic crisis impairs the value of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) that collateralize loans to real estate investment trusts (REITs)

Last January, we reported on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) proposal to codify the "valid when made" rule—a longstanding doctrine that has served as the bedrock...

The trend of states legalizing marijuana shows no signs of abating.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has traditionally refused registration of cannabis and cannabis-related offerings because "use in commerce" under the Trademark Act means "use in lawful commerce" and such offerings were prohibited under federal law.