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To be a victim or creditor, that is the question. Whether ‘tis better to remain silent and suffer the outrageous fortune of a hacked exchange receiving $6 billion in restitution as the alleged sole victim of the hack...

The Order initiates a 180-day review, but plan fiduciaries can begin preparing now by engaging ERISA counsel and investment consultants to understand...

New York employees have a (legal) duty of loyalty to their employers – under the state's faithless servant doctrine, a court may require an employee to return compensation received...

On July 1, 2019, the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law will go into effect. The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (DFML) has recently

The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a notice on April 28, 2020 (the Notice) providing relief from certain requirements and deadlines...

Beginning September 6, 2018, New York City employers must post a mandatory anti-sexual harassment rights and responsibilities poster and provide an information sheet to all new hires under the Stop Sexual Harassment in New York City Act (the "NYC Act").

The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (the Act)...

The US Department of Labor sent shock waves through the halls of many PR firms when it published proposed rules this summer delineating the narrow exemptions from the payment of overtime for "white collar employees."

In May 2015, the Second Circuit sent shockwaves through the secondary debt market with its narrow application of the National Bank Act (NBA) in Madden v. Midland.

Expectations are high for marketplace lending in 2020 but, more than any other lending sector, there are legal questions on the horizon that are likely to have an impact going forward.

A recent decision in the longstanding fight between Oracle and Google could change the way software developers and programmers use APIs when creating mobile and other software applications.

The legal protections afforded to graffiti and "street art" artists have gained increased visibility in recent months.

More than four years after lawsuits were filed against Fox Broadcasting, NBC, and other parties claiming that sweepstakes promoted on the TV shows "Deal Or No Deal" and "American Idol" were illegal under California and Massachusetts law, the parties have reached a tentative settlement.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought its first court case alleging that a marketer violated federal law by paying for fake reviews to be written and posted on an independent retail website.

A threshold issue that emerges when advertisers and their agencies hire celebrities, musical artists, and other personalities to endorse and perform services for a brand is whether or not to enter into some form of preliminary deal document, as opposed to going straight to a longer form agreement, and how to structure such a document

The  Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU), a division of BBB National Programs, recently announced guidelines for child-directed advertising and privacy in the metaverse (the Metaverse Guardrails).

Just days before the Federal Trade Commission's Rule Concerning Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Plans (the "Rule") was set to take effect on July 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals...

A sweepstakes by Elon Musk's Political Action Committee, America PAC – which on October 19 announced and began offering a daily prize of $1,000,000, through Election Day, to one U.S. citizen...