Everything seems to get better and last longer. Remember when it was recommended to change your oil every 3,000 miles? Now it is 5,000 miles. Remember when milk used to go sour in the fridge in a few days? Now it will make it through the weekend. However, as the realm of privacy law advances, Continue Reading
Adapting to Change: The Key Trends Redefining Public Relations Firms
The Public Relations industry is experiencing exciting transformations, with consolidations, mergers, and evolving agency structures creating new opportunities. At the same time, the rise of artificial intelligence is enhancing how firms operate. Some organizations are embracing in-house or hybrid Continue Reading
Reuters Legal News | The Return of Stolen Crypto Can Be a Taxing Event
Digital assets have been subject to some of the largest thefts in history. In fact, the largest crypto theft — in connection with the February 2025 $1.5 billion Bybit hack — dwarfs the Guinness Book of World Records' entry for the largest bank robbery of $282 million. See "Crypto's biggest Continue Reading
AdExchanger | New US State Children’s Privacy Laws Continue To Reshape Digital Marketing
Last year saw a proliferation of US state laws regulating the processing of children’s data. 2025 promises to be just as active, with new rules either already in effect or coming into force later this year. Companies in the ad tech ecosystem should pay attention to the evolving Continue Reading
Employee Relations Law Journal | Non-Quantitative Treatment Limitations Comparative Analysis: What Plan Fiduciaries Need To Know
Update as of 5/15/2025 Following the date of this publication, in May 2025, under President Trump, the Departments announced a non-enforcement policy with respect to the requirements of the 2024 Final Regulations discussed herein, as issued under President Biden. Until the final resolution Continue Reading
Reuters Legal News | Crypto Ownership and Custodial Wallets: Owning Without Owning?
Over the last decade, year over year, hackers have stolen billions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. Last month, another of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges was hacked in what has been called the largest crypto heist in history. The exchange was Bybit, based in Dubai, and the Continue Reading
Employee Relations Law Journal | ERISA “Stock Drop” Cases: Should Plan Fiduciaries Rest Easy?
Prior to 2014, many federal courts applied a “presumption of prudence" standard when evaluating a fiduciary's decision to offer employer stock as an investment option under their company’s retirement plan. However, Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, drastically changed this, as the U.S. Supreme Continue Reading
Employee Relations Law Journal | Excessive Fee Suits Imperil ERISA Fiduciaries for Health and Welfare Plans
The standards that ERISA fiduciaries owe to the plans they oversee have been called “among the highest duties known to law... more exacting than the duties imposed upon common law trustees.” In recent years, ERISA fiduciaries of retirement plans have experienced heightened scrutiny from plan Continue Reading
Reuters Legal News | When Stolen Crypto is Recovered, Who Is Entitled to Restitution?
It was a Bitcoin hack so big and complex that the laptop used to trace and recover the stolen coins will soon be on display at the Smithsonian. There was a recovery effort so grand it yielded 80% of the stolen Bitcoin and the largest forfeiture in the history of the Department of Justice. The Continue Reading
AdExchanger | Maryland Is The New State To Watch When It Comes To Data Privacy
There are now 19 states that have enacted comprehensive consumer data privacy laws, eight of which are currently in effect. When talk turns to the most impactful of these state privacy laws, the conversation usually starts and stops with California. However, recent developments should alter Continue Reading