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Everything Compliance: Episode 156, To Document or Not Edition

Welcome to this edition of the award-winning Everything Compliance. In this episode, we have the full quintet of Matt Kelly, Jonathan Marks, Jonathan Armstrong, Karen Moore, and Karen Woody, all hosted by Tom Fox, the...more

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Legal Implications of AI in the Life Sciences Industry

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the life sciences industry, with significant advancements in various areas. These innovations bring new legal challenges related to intellectual property, data protection,...more

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The Health AI Frontier: New Opportunities for Innovation Across the Health Care Sector

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With the health care industry under pressure to improve patient outcomes while controlling costs, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are quickly becoming indispensable tools. These technologies show...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Preparation for 2022 Fiscal Year-End SEC Filings and 2023 Annual Shareholder Meetings

Public companies initiating the year-end reporting process will need to consider, and in many cases take steps to address, a number of significant developments and issues. To assist companies in this process, Mintz has...more

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CEP Magazine - December 2022. Beginner's guide to SOC 2, Part 1

CEP Magazine - December 2022 - The reason we have auditors today is simply because people do not trust one another. Let’s say financial statements reveal $1 million in net profit. If you are a shareholder, do you believe...more

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FDIC Finalizes Supervisory Regime For Industrial Banks And Their Controlling Shareholders

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On December 15, 2020, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued a final rule (“Final Rule”) setting forth standards to apply to controlling shareholders of industrial banks that are not subject to consolidated...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CCPA Litigation Update: How the CCPA (and other Privacy Risks) Raise the Risk of Potential Shareholder Claims

California became the first U.S. state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law when the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) became operative on January 1, 2020. The CCPA provides for broad privacy rights for residents...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Establishing and Managing a Business in the UK 2020

This guide has been compiled to give an overview of the rudimentary legal aspects that should be considered by anyone thinking of establishing a business in the UK. It is aimed at businesses that may already be established in...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Are Shareholders Considered “Consumers” Under The CCPA?

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It’s hard to understate the range of issues the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) raises for covered businesses and their service providers. One of those issues involves the meaning of “consumer.” If you have been...more

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Delaware Court Provides Guidance for Books and Records Demands to Limit Producing Electronic Data to Stockholders

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Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law allows stockholders to inspect various books and records of a company upon showing a proper purpose for the request, among other statutory requirements. In this electronic...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

PayPal Shareholders’ Data Breach Stock-Drop Suit Dismissed

Among other things, 2018 was the year of the shareholder data breach stock-drop lawsuit. As we’ve previously reported, it was the year that shareholders began routinely suing companies after an announcement of a data breach,...more

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Financial Services Weekly News - December 2018

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Editor's Note - In This Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules and amendments designed to promote research on mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), registered closed-end funds, business...more

White and Williams LLP

Breaching the D&O Firewall: The Rise of Cybersecurity Regulations for Businesses and the Future Effects on D&O Insurance

For many D&O insurers, the risk of exposure posed by cybersecurity incidents involving their insureds has been unclear at best. Cybersecurity incidents, and the corresponding shareholder claims that follow, pose unique and...more

Hogan Lovells

French legal and regulatory update – March 2018

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e-newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for February 2018. ...more

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French Legal and Regulatory Update - May 2017

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e-newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for May 2017. ...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Shareholders sue mobile security firm for failing to disclose hacking incident before IPO

MobileIron, Inc. was sued late last week by shareholders in a proposed class action for allegedly failing to disclose a hacking incident just weeks before its initial public offering (IPO). The suit, filed on behalf of...more

Carlton Fields

A Firewall for the Boardroom: Best Practices to Insulate Directors and Officers From Derivative Lawsuits and Related Regulatory...

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Shortly after the massive 2013 Target data breach, shareholders filed four derivative lawsuits against the company’s directors and some of its officers (13 CARE 624, 3/20/15). The shareholders alleged that the defendants had...more

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Checking in on Target’s Derivative Litigation: 18 Months Later, Directors Remain Stuck in the Checkout Line

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Everyone remembers the Target Corporation data breach, one of the worst in history. In late 2013, hackers forced their way into Target’s computer system, accessing the information of approximately 70 million customers,...more

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Data Security Breach Documents Sought in Home Depot Books-and-Records Suit

Home Depot was recently hit with a books-and-records suit in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Frohman v. Home Depot, which seeks documents relating to the giant retailer’s data security breach last September. The plaintiff, a...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Top 10 Topics for Directors in 2015

In this issue: - Strategic Planning Challenges - Cybersecurity - Assess the Impact of Advances in Technology and Big Data - Shareholder Activism - The Return of M&A - Risk...more

Butler Snow LLP

Data Breach Case Update: Shareholder Derivative Suit Dismissed

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We recently discussed the increase in data breach litigation which resulted after several high-profile data breaches. You can read those articles here and here. Not surprisingly, several of these suits involve class actions...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Court Dismisses Shareholder Derivative Action Targeting Directors and Officers for Data Breaches

A federal district court in New Jersey has dismissed with prejudice a shareholder derivative suit, Palkon v. Holmes, No. 14-CV-01234 (SRC) (D.N.J.), that tried to blame the directors and officers at hospitality company...more

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Director Liability for Cybersecurity Risks

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If a corporation is the target of a cyberattack resulting in a data breach, its board may be the target of a shareholder derivative action claiming breach of fiduciary duty. A recent example is Palkon v. Holmes, No....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Practical Tips on Board Confidentiality

Heightened stockholder engagement and influence, a proliferation in the availability of third-party information (including through social media) and a desire for greater corporate transparency and accountability have...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

First of a series: Issues for 2013

Happy New Year! We are beginning this week with a series of top Privacy and Security issues for 2013, as we see them. Let’s start with an issue of interest to publicly traded companies, or companies considering going...more

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