Challenges of Taxing the Sharing Economy

By: Jessica L. Kerner IN 2007, A HOTEL ROOM SHORTAGE IN SAN FRANCISCO prompted two roommates to create a website to rent out air mattresses in their apartment. Less than eight years later, the company they founded, Airbnb, has been valued at more than...

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Force Majeure and Coronavirus (COVID-19): Seven Critical Lessons from the Case Law

By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis There is a veritable pandemic raging, and I’m not referring to COVID-19. It’s a pandemic of webinars and legal articles about force majeure and COVID-19. Sadly, no lawyer is immune from it...

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Minimizing Your Company’s Exposure to a Ransomware Attack

By: Sunil Shenoi , Erica Williams , Brian Kavanaugh , Gianni Cutri , and Lauren Casazza , Kirkland & Ellis LLP This article provides companies with key issues to consider before, during, and after a ransomware attack. Recently, there have been a...

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Corporate Board Diversity Requirements Expand: Guidance for Corporations

By: Trevor Norwitz, Sabastian V. Niles, and Jenny Lin THE CALIFORNIA STATUTE, CA S.B. 826, REQUIRES “a domestic general corporation or foreign corporation that is a publicly held corporation, as defined, whose principal executive offices, according...

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Emerging Biometric Laws: Considerations for Employers and Companies Collecting Data

By: Aravind Swaminathan , David T. Cohen , Rochelle Swartz , and Nicholas Farnsworth Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP A recent decision from the Supreme Court of Illinois heightens the risks faced by companies collecting biometric information by...