As state consumer privacy legislation grows, Congress has been feeling increased pressure from the business community and consumer advocates to set a uniform federal standard for how companies use, share, and secure consumers' data. With bipartisan and bicameral...
You are watching your favorite true-crime documentary and you notice the detective used a notepad with a checklist of items to investigate. As creditors’ committee counsel, you don’t need to write a checklist in a notepad. You can simply use this checklist...
A brand-new commercial leasing report has just been released! 2021 in Review: COVID-19 and the Evolving Commercial Leasing Market draws on recent interviews with seasoned commercial leasing attorneys and data from Practical Guidance’s Private Market Data...
When community transmission of a virus is still occurring during a pandemic, many employee roles will qualify as at least medium risk exposure, since any direct contact with another person—whether a coworker, client, vendor, or member of the public—could...
The Biden administration has proposed several reforms that would affect health and leave programs. These proposals come after multiple COVID-19 laws enacted in 2020 and 2021 requiring significant changes to health plans, including major new transparency standards...
The U.S. Supreme Court, in its March 2021 decision in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District , shook up the test for assessing personal jurisdiction over corporate defendants. Specifically, the Court held that Ford’s contacts “affiliated”...
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have been buzzed about for years; however, current events have catapulted ESG to the main stage. The SEC’s recent announcement of a Climate and ESG Task Force and request...
Tax plays a critical role in many M&A transactions. Attaining the desired tax consequences is a significant consideration when planning and structuring an acquisition. This resource kit collects Practical Guidance that addresses tax considerations in the M&A...
Understand and advise your clients on the issues and challenges inherent in running a healthcare business and how to reduce associated risks. Consult this checklist from Practical Guidance – Healthcare to develop a framework for analyzing proposed healthcare...
Watch a short video on the surprising marketing paradigm where customer silence with respect to an offer can be deemed to be acceptance of the offer (contrary to the traditional contract law paradigm). Watch now » Related Content Negative Option Marketing...
U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) recently introduced The Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, requiring employers to write and implement workplace violence prevention plans to prevent and protect...
Plan sponsors use periodic notices to inform participants (and beneficiaries) of their rights, obligations, and benefits, and to provide other information regarding the plan in which they are eligible or in which they participate. While plan sponsors typically...
Practice in New York’s Supreme Court has often felt like the old Times Square, with its loose general civil procedure rules that allowed, for example, a party to serve an unlimited number of interrogatories and depose a party well into the night. In a sign...
Seminar will Teach Financial Services Institutions How to use Existing Processes to Comply with the recent Red Flags Rule May 21, 2008 — New York, NY, May 21, 2008 - LexisNexis ® Risk & Information Analytics Group and the Association of Certified Anti...
Are you working on a commercial purchase and sale transaction? Use this visual checklist to guide you through the steps for drafting a commercial real property purchase and sale agreement. Read now » Related Content Commercial Purchase and Sale Agreements...
Every commercial contract poses inherent risks. Learn how to avoid them using this checklist. Read now » Related Content Risk Assessment Read about the importance and process of conducting risk assessments. Risk Allocation in Commercial Contracts...
Learn about potential insurance coverage for tort and environmental liability arising from per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS), which are water soluble, appear to move through soil, and bioaccumulate in the human body. Read now » Related Content...
Though trial by combat may at times seem an option, we at Civil Litigation like to keep litigation … well, civil. That’s why, as outside counsel, effective collaboration with in-house counsel is essential to developing a trial theme that summarizes...
Understand the FDA’s final guidance addressing clinical decision support (CDS) software. Software intended for medical diagnosis or treatment has historically been considered a medical device subject to FDA regulation. Find out what makes a CDS product a...
Need a primer on bankruptcy sales? Check out this video highlighting the Bankruptcy Code's requirements to conduct a sale of a debtor's assets under Section 363, including a discussion of stalking horse bidders, auctions, and sale hearings. Read Now »...
LexisNexis® offers the Corporate Governance: Law and Practice Guide for practitioners. With coverage of the history of corporate governance, duties and responsibilities of directors, liability of officers, audit and compliance committee programs, and much more...
The U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the agencies) issued a 2022 report to Congress regarding their enforcement activities under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) , as required under the Consolidated Appropriations...
For the first time in the United States, a state has regulated the conduct of data brokers who buy and sell personal information. Vermont’s data broker statute, Vt. Stat. tit. 9. §§ 2446, 2447 imposes significant requirements on data brokers who...
Learn about the doctrine of commercial impracticability under the UCC, including circumstances in which a seller’s delayed, partial, or nonperformance of a sale of goods agreement is excused, when parties can override the doctrine, and the obligations and...
Swaps are an important credit protection tool in the energy industry. Unfortunately, when the energy industry hits a rough patch and companies file for bankruptcy, energy swap counterparties get caught in the fray. Learn about swaps in the energy industry and the...