Author: Will Delgado, DTO Law At the start of 2020, California’s privacy regime underwent a major overhaul. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), sweeping legislation that had been in the works for the past few years, finally went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA, which follows the lead of the European Union’s ...
Schwartz Hannum PC is thrilled to announce that Kirsten B. White has been named a Partner of the Firm. Kirsten is a member of the Firm’s Labor and Employment and Education Practice groups. Kirsten prioritizes exceptional client service in her legal work, and her client-first approach emphasizes accessibility, responsiveness, and personal investment in meeting client ...
Author: Erin Shea, Patrick Law Group, LLC While statistics regarding the increase in the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vary, it is clear that the use of RPA is on the rise. Companies are rolling out RPA in an effort to increase productivity, cut costs and reduce errors. However, before introducing RPA into ...
Author: Amy Elizabeth Stewart and Katherine Hendler Fayne, Amy Stewart Law As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, companies are experiencing unprecedented business interruption losses as they cancel events, curtail travel, and shutter retail establishments in compliance with government mandates and shelter-in-place orders. While some jurisdictions have only social distancing warnings in place, ...
Law firms are bound by state rules of professional responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of client information. Recent ethical rulings have made it clear that professional responsibility includes the maintenance of information technology systems that protect client data from cyber and other similar means of data theft… Read Full Article
On February 11, 2020, in J. Carlo Cannell et al. v. Grail Partners LLC, Appellate No. 20184352 (Index No. 652735/2018), the New York State Appellate Division, First Department, ruled unanimously in favor of Aguilar Bentley’s investment firm client, Grail Partners, holding that the lower court erred in awarding a judgment against Grail Partners for over ...
Author: Meredith Sidewater, Patrick Law Group “In public health, we can’t do anything without surveillance. That’s where public health begins.” -David Satcher, MD, PhD, U.S. Surgeon General, 1998-2002 Media outlets reported this week that representatives from Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple are meeting with members of the White House to brainstorm about ways in ...
Now is the time to do everything within our power to ensure that the diversity and inclusion progress we have made in our legal profession the past ten years doesn’t slow down. Using minority and/or women owned law firms and tier 2 mbe/wbe owned legal suppliers is a crucial piece of this. Legal supplier diversity ...
Scharf Banks Marmor is proud to announce that Associate Morgan Churma has been elected to serve on the Center for Disability & Elder Law’s (CDEL) Young Professional Board of Directors. Founded in 1984 by the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association, CDEL provides pro bono legal aid services to low-income seniors and people ...
On March 11, 2020, the Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a putative $70 million Fourteenth Amendment “due process” class action lawsuit against the Sheriff of Cook County, represented by the Firm. Vargas v. Cook Cty. Sheriff’s Merit Bd. et al., Case No. 19-1686, _ F.3d __ (7th. Cir. 2020). The case was filed by eight ...