18 Dec, 2024 Rejection of Franchise 'Bundled' Sub-Agreements: Michigan Decision Highlights Key Contract Drafting, Bankruptcy Principles By Tristan Axelrod Sam Wolf One of the most important tools in the Bankruptcy Code is the debtor’s power to reject executory contracts, agreements for which...
17 Dec, 2024 UK Government Consults on Challenges Between AI and Creative Industries By David Knight The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office and two U.K. government departments – the Department for Science, Innovation and...
12 Dec, 2024 En Banc Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Rejects Nasdaq’s Board-Diversity Rules By Jonathan Richman The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated the Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of proposed...
12 Dec, 2024 And Then There Were None: Supreme Court Dismisses Review of Second Securities Case By Jonathan Richman After having tantalized the securities bar by agreeing to review two Ninth Circuit decisions reversing the dismissals of securities class...
10 Dec, 2024 Tips for Recovering Insurance for Your Cyber Losses By Daniel Healy Cyber attacks against U.S. businesses have been on the rise for years. They take numerous forms and lead to a growing breadth of loss...
09 Dec, 2024 FinCEN to Comply With Nationwide Injunction of CTA Enforcement By Rodger Moss Nicole Baek Morgan Jones Rachel Moroknek +1 more... Show less Last week, we reported (Texas Court Enjoins the Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act) that the U.S. District Court for the...
09 Dec, 2024 UK Supreme Court Agrees to Hear AI Music Recommendations By David Knight In July we reported on the U.K. Court of Appeal decision rejecting a patent application by Emotional Perception AI Limited (EPL),...
05 Dec, 2024 AI Biotech CEO Admits to Raising $40M Without Disclosing Clinical Holds By Daniel Sachs Kiromic BioPharma Inc. (the Company), its former CEO, Maurizio Chiriva-Internati and former CFO Tony Tontat admitted to raising $40...
05 Dec, 2024 Florida Court Denies Dismissal of Securities Suit Arising From Target’s 'Pride Month' Campaign By Jonathan Richman A Florida federal court recently denied a motion to dismiss a securities class action against Target Corp. arising from a customer...
05 Dec, 2024 Texas Court Enjoins the Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act By Rodger Moss Nicole Baek Morgan Jones Rachel Moroknek +1 more... Show less In 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which required certain companies to submit a report to the Treasury...
20 Nov, 2024 It's 2024! Do You Know Who's Exempt? By Shlomo Katz You definitely can be forgiven if you don't know the minimum salary level for exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Let me...
19 Nov, 2024 Franchisor’s Liability Under CFIL Not Barred From Insurance Coverage By Daniel Healy Sam Wolf Franchise insurance is a critical tool designed to protect both franchisors and their principals from numerous risks and liabilities. A...
06 Nov, 2024 Nine Months for Large Corporates to Update Their Systems and Controls: UK Government Publishes Guidance on Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence By Paul Feldberg Martha Baselga Chloë Kealey Menelaos Karampetsos Daniel Sachs +2 more... Show less The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 created a new failure to prevent fraud offence in the U.K. under which...
27 Sep, 2024 US Department of Justice Wants Data-Savvy Compliance Departments and Additional Protection for Whistleblowers By Paul Feldberg Daniel Sachs Martha Baselga In September 2024, the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced changes in how it evaluates corporate compliance programs. [1] Of...
26 Sep, 2024 Legal Ethics and AI: Embrace It, but With Caution By Sage Revell On Sept. 19, Brown Rudnick hosted its inaugural conference on “The Future of AI,” which brought together industry experts and legal...
25 Sep, 2024 DOJ Wants Data-Savvy Compliance Departments By Daniel Sachs In a Sept. 23, 2024, speech, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri announced changes in how the U.S. Department...
23 Sep, 2024 My Word Is My Bond: Russian Energy Company Must Arbitrate Against German Bank in Paris By Derval Walsh On 18 September 2024, the U.K. Supreme Court handed down judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH (Respondent) v. RusChemAlliance LLC (Appellant)...