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Posted on Apr 1, 2020
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was signed into law on March 18, 2020, providing a host of benefits, including paid leave for employees so they can deal with the effects of ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2020
As if the effects of COVID-19 on our health and safety and the American economy were not enough to deal with, cybersecurity criminals and scammers have increased their efforts to target employers and ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2020
On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”. While the effects of COVID-19 did not ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2020
Lev Berlin & Sousa understands that while many operations are pausing and being required to close in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the legal needs of people and businesses do not stop. As a ...
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Posted on May 8, 2018
On May 25, 2018, the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), containing many stringent requirements relating to collecting and processing the personal data of EU ...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2018
TCPA Update The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last month in ACA International v. Federal Communications Commission, No. 15-1211, puts yet another spin on the definition of ...
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Posted on Jul 5, 2016
After years of discussion and debate, the Connecticut Judicial Branch has established a new minimum continuing legal education ("CLE") requirement for Connecticut attorneys, to take effect ...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2016
Effective as of January 1, 2016, the New Hampshire Uniform Securities Act has been revised, based on the Uniform Securities Act of 2002, the most recent uniform securities act drafted by the National ...
Continue reading "Revised New Hampshire Securities Act Eliminates Renewal Fees and Final Sales Reports" »
Posted on Oct 1, 2015
Effective October 1, 2015, Public Act No. 15-48, titled “An Act Concerning Revisions to the Connecticut Business Corporation Act, the Uniform Limited Partnership Act and the Connecticut Limited ...
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Posted on Sep 30, 2015
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) installed its electronic disclosure system, EDGAR, beginning with a pilot program in 1984, and culminating in a full phase-in by 1996. EDGAR ...
Continue reading "Development of State Securities Online: NASAA's Electronic Filing Depository" »
Posted on Jun 19, 2015
The potential for abusive litigation against companies that use telephone technology to efficiently deliver information to, and seek input from, their customers and others, increased significantly ...
Continue reading "The FCC's Broad New Interpretation of the TCPA Unfairly Puts Legitimate Companies in Greater Danger of Opportunistic Class Action Litigation" »
Posted on May 29, 2015
Laurence H. Midler is executive vice president and general counsel at CBRE Group Inc. Until 2014, Midler also served as the company’s chief compliance officer, overseeing the ethics and ...
Continue reading "CBRE General Counsel discusses with Law360 the influence that Lev Berlin & Sousa counsel and founder Bruce Lev had on his career" »
Posted on Jul 18, 2014
On July 3, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued six new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs) regarding the determination and verification of accredited investor status ...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2014
In connection with the duties imposed on it by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the SEC is set to come out with further revisions to the definition of "accredited ...
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Posted on Jun 23, 2014
Connecticut's recently enacted telemarketing legislation allows for higher penalties for unsolicited text or phone messages than the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, creating significant new ...
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Posted on Jun 18, 2014
One of the more troubling issues to arise in Telephone Consumer Protection Act litigation involves calls to reassigned cellphone numbers. Almost 37 million phone numbers get recycled each year, a 16 ...
Continue reading "11th Circuit Rules that Calls to Reassigned Numbers can create TCPA Liability" »
Posted on Jun 13, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission's recent focus on companies such as American Apparel Inc. that allegedly failed to comply with a U.S.-EU data transfer framework is only likely to grow more intense in ...
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Posted on Jun 5, 2014
ComScore Inc. has struck a $14 million settlement with what is believed to be the largest class ever certified under federal electronic privacy laws, composed of Web users who allegedly had the online ...
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Posted on Jun 5, 2014
In the year since the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that retailers cannot collect ZIP codes from consumers using credit cards, the number of class actions alleging that retailers have ...
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Posted on May 29, 2014
A recent report jointly created by Law360 and BTI Consulting Group Inc. analyzes how the biggest U.S. law firms are commanding billing rates that are astoundingly higher than their smaller ...
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Posted on May 28, 2014
On May 21, 2014 the California Attorney General Kamala Harris released much-anticipated guidance providing website and mobile app operators recommended best practices when disclosing how the operator ...
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Posted on May 19, 2014
The Federal Communications Commission announced plans to fine Dialing Services, LLC, nearly $3 million for making illegal "robocalls" to cell phones. The FCC has specific rules for automatic ...
Continue reading "FCC Fines Company $2.9 Million for Political Robocalls to Cell Phones" »
Posted on May 8, 2014
Norm Champ, Director, SEC Division of Investment Management, recently gave a speech where he reminded investment advisers to review compliance policies annually as required by SEC rules. He said ...
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Posted on May 5, 2014
On May 1, 2014, the White House Big Data Working Group, led by senior presidential advisor John Podesta, released a 79-page report that outlines a number of key observations and recommendations for ...
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Posted on May 2, 2014
The White House on Thursday backed a host of policy initiatives to better safeguard privacy in the age of “big data,” including a law to forge a single national standard for reporting data ...
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