Tag: legal
SEC Brings First Enforcement Action Against Issuer for Disclosures About Financial...
This post originally appeared in the Foley Hoag newsletter.
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On December 4, 2020, the SEC brought its first case charging a public company, The Cheesecake Factory, with...
New Guidelines for EU-US Data Transfers
This post originally appeared in the Foley Hoag newsletter.
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Last week saw major innovations in the law of data transfer from the European Economic Area...
Is Your Company Ready for the CCPA?
If you are doing business in California, the way you handle personal data could soon change in significant ways. The California Consumer Privacy Act...
UPDATED: The New MA Paid Family and Medical Leave Law –...
MassTLC published a version of this piece on May 8, 2019. This version has been updated by the authors to reflect recent amendments to...
Reshaping Finance: Building the Service Delivery Model of the Future
In recent decades, the service delivery model for finance has evolved from shared services to multisourcing and, most recently, to global business services (GBS),...
Lessons from the First Major Enforcement of GDPR
On January 21, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “French DPA”) fined Google LLC 50 million euros for violating the requirements of the GDPR “for lack...
Making the Case for Business Action to “Secure the Shared Space”
The relationship between companies and civil society can often be acrimonious, yet in the current geopolitical environment, they share more interests in common than...
A New Era of MA Noncompete Law Begins
As previously reported, the new Massachusetts law governing non-competition agreements takes effect on Monday, October 1. A comprehensive summary of the law is here. The...
MA Legislature Passes Noncompete Reform Bill
The following article originally appeared on the Foley Hoag blog.
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After years of debate, the Massachusetts legislature late last night passed a comprehensive noncompete reform...
Copyright Office Denies Protection for “Unique” Product Packaging
The following article originally appeared on the Foley Hoag blog.
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If you are having trouble obtaining a federal trademark registration for a product’s packaging, some lawyer...
