By C. Ryan Barber | September 11, 2017
In the months before revealing a data breach that potentially exposed the personal information of nearly half the adult U.S. population, Equifax Inc. turned to the firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington to help convince U.S. lawmakers to reduce penalties for companies that violated the federal fair credit-reporting law.
By C. Ryan Barber | September 8, 2017
The Federal Trade Commission in several cases has faulted social media "influencers" for failing to disclose the payments behind their seemingly organic endorsements. But the FTC had only reached settlements with the companies, raising a question of when—if ever—the agency would directly go after the influencers. That time has come. The agency this week took its first action against an influencer.
By Erin Mulvaney | September 7, 2017
Major U.S. companies have pushed back against the Trump administration's plan to rescind the Obama-era authorization program that allowed an estimated 800,000 undocumented immigrants to remain in the country. Yet, if the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is terminated and Congress doesn't craft new rules, any defiant companies that move to shield workers from deportation could be exposed to compliance headaches and legal hurdles, employment lawyers say.
By David Ruiz | September 7, 2017
Apple's GC raised the idea of targeted discovery to lower the cost and time of litigation, and fellow tech GCs asked for the courts help in making it happen.
By Rhys Dipshan | September 6, 2017
As a part of the Tech Lawyer Accelerator Program, a law student will join Bryan Cave's outside counsel team in developing contract management systems for Red Robin's legal department.
By Kristen Rasmussen | September 5, 2017
At least 18 top lawyers are among more than 300 entrepreneurs and business leaders who urged Congress to enact legislation to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the GC of Microsoft pledged to pay for Dreamer employees' legal costs to avoid deportation.
By Mike Scarcella | September 4, 2017
The Trump administration is moving forward with a spate of new nominees for the U.S. Justice Department and regulatory agencies, pulling lawyers from Big Law and in-house legal departments for top positions.
By C. Ryan Barber | August 31, 2017
"We recommend that you DO NOT use this product to view the sun or the eclipse," Amazon reportedly told consumers who bought certain special glasses to watch the Aug. 21 solar eclipse. Amazon is now the target of a class action in a Charleston, South Carolina, federal district court, where five law firms teamed up to sue the online retail giant over its alleged inadequate recall notification before the Aug. 21 eclipse.
By Erin Mulvaney | August 31, 2017
The destruction wreaked by Hurricane Harvey on Houston and greater southeast Texas will close businesses for an undetermined amount of time and potentially leave out of work tens of thousands of people stuck in shelters or grappling with flooded homes.
By Erin Mulvaney | August 30, 2017
The Trump administration, rolling back an Obama-era regulation to boost pay-data transparency among companies, garnered praise from businesses that complained the rule would impose onerous new reporting requirements and admonition from civil rights groups that said the effort would help expose compensation discrimination.
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