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New Jersey Law Journal

Almost Half of Companies Haven't Started California Consumer Privacy Act Compliance, Survey Shows

A recent survey finds that 44 percent of companies that will impacted by the California Consumer Protection Act haven't yet taken steps towards compliance.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Q&A: Working with the City of Atlanta During Last Year's Massive Ransomware Attack

Roy Hadley, who was called in to help the city respond to last year's massive breach, spoke with Corporate Counsel about how his time in-house informed his work on this matter and the role of the city's legal department during the crisis.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

$8M Merrill Lynch Settlement Over American Depositary Receipts Puts Focus on Foreign Investment Compliance

The SEC concluded that the bank had "failed to establish and implement policies and procedures that would be reasonably expected to detect” the inappropriate handling of pre-release American Depositary Receipts.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

How Risk Management Can Make Marijuana-Related Businesses Bulletproof

Envision managing the risk of a volatile, staggeringly lucrative, 100-percent federally legal enterprise? Toss in ridiculously inconsistent federal, state and local regulations, insanely evolving technologies and efficiencies and an industrywide disinclination to ever "play by the rules."
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Audrey Strauss, Long Steeped in White-Collar Enforcement, Takes Over as SDNY's No. 2

"Audrey Strauss, who has been invaluable as senior counsel, will undoubtedly continue the important work of the deputy U.S. attorney," U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

On the Same Page: Blockchain for the Advertising Industry

While inflated expectations abound, the advertising industry is emerging as one of the more immediate, substantive and compelling use cases for blockchain technology.
11 minute read

Law.com

Higher Law: Hogan Lovells' Neal Katyal Takes Hemp Appeal | CBD Confusion | Squire Patton's Pot Play

We're closely following the big hemp case in the Ninth Circuit, where a Hogan Lovells team—including Neal Katyal—just made their appearances. Plus: Squire Patton Boggs has a new cannabis lobbying client. Scroll down for Who Got the Work, and more. Thanks for reading Higher Law!
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Pre-IPO Compliance Advice for Lyft, Slack, Airbnb and Levi's

As avid users of these services and products, we want these companies to succeed. In the last couple of years, we've been involved with over a half dozen tech company acquisitions and building up their compliance programs.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York-based McGuireWoods Partner Joins National Enquirer as GC

Daniel Goldfried, who formerly served as senior counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and spent a decade as an in-house lawyer in the financial industry, will be Chatham Asset Management's top lawyer as the hedge fund grapples with crises on several fronts.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Crypto-Collateral? Securing Loans with Digital Currency

With the recent shift to digitalizing assets, it is necessary to determine whether cryptocurrencies can be used as collateral for loans, and whether it is wise for lenders to accept such an asset as collateral.
6 minute read

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