Nov 30, 2023 Benefits of Brownfield Redevelopment By Brian Remler While some developers are dragged reluctantly into redeveloping brownfields, others actively pursue these environmentally impacted...
Nov 28, 2023 Tax Return Information, Consent, and AI By Barclay Taylor Protecting tax return information is a critical component to averting identity theft and other financial crimes. Congress enacted civil...
Nov 21, 2023 ERC Claims Can Still be Submitted During the Moratorium By Barclay Taylor The Employee Retention Credit ("ERC") was a critical lifeline for many businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. After the IRS's September...
Nov 17, 2023 Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amended to Include Health Data Protections By Jordan Ockleberry The Connecticut Governor recently amended the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), the state's comprehensive consumer privacy law, to...
Nov 17, 2023 Insurers Cannot Unilaterally Reserve the Right to Recoup Defense Costs in a Reservation of Rights Letter, Eleventh Circuit Holds By Ryan Burke Nathan Miles Seslee Smith Liability insurers defending under a reservation of rights (ROR) often include in their RORs that the insurer may recoup defense costs...
Nov 15, 2023 Post SVB, Where Have All the Deposits Gone? By Jennifer Feld In the months following the SVB collapse, deposits appear to have disbursed widely. In search of stability, a lot of startups moved...
Nov 15, 2023 Year-End Privacy Check: Essential Issues at a Glance By Michael Young With the end of the year in sight, now is the time to review some essential privacy issues. Please note the following: States continue to...
Nov 15, 2023 Hope for a soft landing? By Scott Allen I thought this short article was spot on regarding the deal environment. Based on inflation data out today, it looks like the Fed will...
Nov 14, 2023 Negotiating ERP Software Agreements By Tim Dodson I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking in an upcoming Strafford live video webinar, "Negotiating Enterprise Resource Planning...
Nov 13, 2023 Georgia District Court Sets Low Bar For Pleading a TVPRA Claim By Ryan Burke Nathan Miles Seslee Smith A plaintiff need only allege that a hotel (a) rented a room to traffickers and (b) knew or had reason to know the plaintiff was being...
Nov 09, 2023 Georgia Court Of Appeals Reverses Denial Of Class Certification By Bob Alpert Jeff Douglass Doug Hance The Georgia Court of Appeals recently reversed a trial court’s denial of class certification in Doe v. Vest Monroe, LLC, 368 Ga. App. 572...
Nov 07, 2023 Navigating Commercial Leasing Risks: Lessons from the Missouri Verdict By Charles Hicks Justin Barry In October 2023, a Missouri jury awarded a staggering $1.8 billion in damages in a case involving the National Association of Realtors...
Nov 06, 2023 Are Changes to the Accredited Investor Definition Coming? By Jennifer Feld Unfortunately I don't have a definitive answer to that question, but revisions to the definition of “accredited investor” are being...
Nov 03, 2023 "Coverage Defenses" Cannot Be Waived Whereas "Policy Defenses" Can Be, Eleventh Circuit Holds By Nathan Miles Seslee Smith Ryan Burke An insurer cannot waive a “coverage defense” based on a policy exclusion, even where the insurer failed to raise that defense in its...
Nov 03, 2023 Amazon Alexa Users’ BIPA Claims Barely Survive Motion to Dismiss By Caroline Suydam Bob Alpert Doug Hance Jeff Douglass Patrick Lowther Kristen Vigilant +3 more... Show less An Illinois federal court judge recently denied Amazon’s motion to dismiss in connection with a Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)...