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Corporate Counsel

'We're Going to Tear the Barriers Down': Judge Prepares to Open App Market Floodgates on Google

"When you have a mountain that's built out of bad conduct, you're going to have to move that mountain," U.S. District Judge James Donato said.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Financial Firms Hit With Another $470M in 'Off-Channel' Communications Fines

The 3-year-old crackdown now has yielded more than $3 billion in penalties, and regulators show no signs of letting up.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Businesses Still Fuzzy About Corporate Transparency Act Compliance as Deadline Looms

The new law, aimed at curtailing corruption and money laundering, will force private companies to identify who owns them—information some had been keeping under wraps.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

AI Tools Creating Digital Paper Trails That Could Haunt Companies in Court

"A lot of the risk comes from extremely well-meaning employees that just want the tools to do their job better," said Dera Nevin, managing director at the consulting firm FTI.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

How Legal Leaders Can Implement Risk Mitigation Plans that Balance Risk and Reward

Legal leaders must identify and implement risk management strategies that mitigate risk without creating drag on their business value. In this article, we take a look at eight principles that balance risk and reward.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

One Year Later: 5 Best Practices Following the Updated FTC Endorsement Guides

To shield against—or outright avoid—liability for ads featuring endorsements, shrewd in-house counsel should follow these five compliance best practices below, gleaned from the Endorsement Guides, the proposed reviews rule and the recent enforcement efforts.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Hyper-Aggressive FTC Turns High Beam on Auto Industry's Sales Culture

The agency's latest target is vehicle-service-contract marketer CarShield, which agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations of deceptive sales practices.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Regulators Prowl for Financial Firms That Wield NDAs to 'Muzzle' Whistleblowers

Nondisclosure agreements "send a message that reporting violations outside the company is wrong—this adds to the culture of silence the whistleblower laws are designed to prevent," said Stephen Kohn, founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Common Law Liability at Construction Sites and the 'Launching a Force' Test

"The 'Espinal' court never gave any reason why its three-prong test was better, fairer or more logical than the Restatement formulation," writes Brian J. Shoot.
22 minute read

Corporate Counsel

TikTok Slapped With DOJ Lawsuit for Allegedly Violating Children's Privacy

"This action is necessary to prevent the defendants, who are repeat offenders and operate on a massive scale, from collecting and using young children's private information without any parental consent or control," Brian Boynton, head of the Justice Department's Civil Division, said in a statement Friday.
4 minute read

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