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Why Your Employees Are Your Biggest Trade Secret Risk (And What NC Business Owners Can Do About It)

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 8/20/2025

While external cyber threats make headlines, the reality is that your biggest risk often comes from within. For North Carolina businesses, from tech startups in Durham to manufacturers in Greensboro, understanding how to...more

The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 6, August 2025

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 8/8/2025

Welcome to our sixth issue of The Academic Advisor for 2025. In this edition, we cover the following topics of interest for schools, institutions of higher education, and other education-focused organizations: - How the...more

Data Breach 101: a Curriculum Spoiler for NC College Students

Fox Rothschild LLP on 10/3/2024

A letter or three per year, alerting of a data breach at a company with which you’ve interacted, is now par for the course. Hackers, and the companies whose data they seek, are engaged in a near-daily volley of attacks and...more

The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 9, November 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 11/8/2023

The Accreditation Overhaul for North Carolina (and Florida) Colleges - Last month, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed House Bill 8 (HB 8) into law. In addition to establishing a new computer science requirement for...more

Brooks Pierce Capital Dispatch: Governor Signs Critical Infrastructure Bill, Budget Negotiations Continue

Brooks Pierce on 6/26/2023

Gov. Roy Cooper this week signed a new critical infrastructure law and legislators continued budget negotiations. Budget Negotiations - Budget negotiators this week continued work on a conference committee report for...more

The Site Report - Construction Law Insights, Issue 3, April 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/6/2023

What Employers Can Do When a Union Knocks on Their Door - When a union knocks on an employer's door, it can be a shock and awe experience for the unprepared employer. It is important for employers to understand their...more

Ransomware: To Pay or Not to Pay? It Just Got More Complicated

McDermott Will & Schulte on 7/26/2022

When an organization experiences a ransomware attack, it must address significant—and sometimes competing—challenges under pressing deadlines. These challenges include the following: evicting the threat actor from the network...more

North Carolina Prohibits Public Sector Entities from Paying Ransom in a Ransomware Cyberattack

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/25/2022

Organizations attacked with ransomware have a bevy of decisions to make, very quickly! One of those decisions is whether to pay the ransom. Earlier this year, I had the honor of contributing to a two-part series, entitled...more

Not in My Backyard: NC Becomes First State to Prohibit Public Entities from Paying Ransoms

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 4/5/2022

As part of the budget appropriations law enacted on November 18, 2021, North Carolina became the first state in the nation to prohibit state agencies and local government entities from paying a ransom following a ransomware...more

A Fintech Leader’s Thoughts on the North Carolina Regulatory Sandbox Act

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 8/4/2021

As part of Bradley’s continuing coverage of the North Carolina Sandbox Act, we wanted to know what community members and NC fintech aficionados thought about this proposed legislation. We posed six questions to Tariq Bokhari,...more

Technology Boom in NC? What You Should Know About the Proposed Regulatory Sandbox in the Tarheel State

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 7/20/2021

Technology is evolving and advancing at a dizzying pace across the globe. Emerging technologies are reimagining everything from how we interact with each other to how we interact with businesses and institutions. Given the...more

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