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 ...
Author: NAMWOLF NAMWOLF’s Emerging Leaders Initiative (“ELI”) has put a huge emphasis on partnering with non-profit organizations to engage with the community at large and add an exciting new philanthropic component to NAMWOLF’s core mission. Last September, ELI partnered with A Place Called Home, a Los Angeles non-profit that provides a safe and nurturing ...
Dear NAMWOLF friends and supporters, First of all, and most importantly, I want to extend to you on behalf of the NAMWOLF team my thoughts for you and your family, friends and colleagues during this unprecedented and difficult disruption to your business and personal lives. I urge all of you to stay safe, healthy, and ...
The owner of a 164-foot yacht was granted summary judgment in a wrongful death case where a crewmember engaged the bow thruster at the time an invisible, unknown and unannounced diver was scrubbing the hull. The shipowner had contracted with a commercial diver company to clean its hull in June 2017. An exact date and ...