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[Event] 11th Advertising Law Symposium - March 20th, Washington, DC

Venable's AdLaw Symposium is back! Please join us in our Washington, DC, headquarters for this highly anticipated event focused on providing you with the information you need to promote your brand with confidence....more

FTC Steps on Career Step and Alleged Inflated Promises of Employment Opportunities

In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought a complaint against Career Step LLC for targeting servicemembers with misrepresentations concerning Career Step’s ability to match its customers with jobs in the healthcare...more

What’s the FTC “Up To?” Arise Virtual Solutions and the Gig Economy

Last month, in a joint effort with the Department of Labor (DOL), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled an action against Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc. related to charges that the company regularly used misleading...more

[Event] 10th Advertising Law Symposium - March 21st, Washington, DC

It’s that time of year again—Ad Law Symposium is back! Please join us in DC for this highly anticipated event focused on providing you with the information you need to promote your brand with confidence. Combining the...more

The Legal Pitfalls of ChatGPT

When another lawyer told me recently that he used ChatGPT to get a jump start on a work assignment, I realized that while, as an IP lawyer, I had heard so much about this program, I had never actually used it. The next day, I...more

New Notice of Penalty Offenses: Are You in the Danger Zone?

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission issued a Notice of Penalty Offense regarding substantiation for product claims to 670 companies in the health-related marketing space. This new Notice is yet another signal from the FTC...more

Branding the Future: Advertising Law, the Metaverse, and NFTs - Part 2

​​​​​​​In Part 1 of our two-part series about advertising in the metaverse, we summarized its history, discussed its broad implications, and analyzed the attention regulators are giving to false advertising in this area. In...more

The FTC Moves Its Attention to a For-Profit Medical School

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint in the Northern District of Illinois against the Saint James School of Medicine (SJSM), an Illinois-based for-profit medical school, claiming its Caribbean medical...more

Update: Judge Allows Most of Receiver’s Claims Against Wells Fargo for Involvement with Negative Option Marketers to Proceed

A few weeks ago, we wrote an article discussing two enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission in the Central and Southern Districts of California that highlighted the risks to payment processors and financial...more

Biden Tasks Consumer Protection Agencies with Stepping Up Cryptocurrency Oversight

In its much-anticipated cryptocurrency executive order issued earlier this month, the Biden administration called for a coordinated interagency approach to the regulation of digital assets and to the study of their potential...more

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