As the one-year anniversary of the first coronavirus shutdown orders in the U.S. was marked the lessons learned, and best practices distilled from entertainment and advertising productions should be applied more broadly throughout the communications and marketing industries. Communications firms Continue Reading
NAEPC Journal of Estate & Tax Planning | The Improved Power to Plan: NY Amends Its Power of Attorney Forms and Laws
As advisors, we are often charged with the implementation of our best-laid plans for our clients. Who hasn’t experienced the frustration and confusion when one of our planning documents is submitted to a financial institution and rejected, perhaps with little or no explanation? How much do we wish Continue Reading
The Agency 100 | Keeping Your Employees Safe – The COVID-19 Vaccine
Unfortunately, COVID-19 continues to infect people throughout the U.S. As vaccines become more widely available, integrated marketing communication firms have many questions about what that will mean for their workforces. Can we now safely return to the office (if still working remotely)? Can we Continue Reading
The Agency 100 | 4 More States Give Green Light to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
Recreational marijuana has been legalized in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota, as ballot initiatives legalizing marijuana have passed in all four states. This brings the tally up to 15 states plus Washington D.C. that permit recreational marijuana, and legalization efforts are also Continue Reading
The Real Estate Finance Journal | The Next Strain of Repo Litigation
As the economic crisis continues to impair the value of commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) that collateralize loans to real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) to finance their investments, there is the prospect of increased margin calls, requiring REITs to provide additional funds to Continue Reading
Employee Relations Law Journal | The Department of Labor’s Final Rule Creates a New Electronic Disclosure Safe Harbor for Employee Retirement Plans
The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued final regulations creating a new safe harbor for electronic delivery of required disclosure documents pertaining to employee retirement plans (the “Final Rule”). In 2002, the DOL established its first electronic safe harbor (the “2002 Safe Harbor”) for Continue Reading
AdExchanger | What Does the CPRA Mean for Behavioral Advertising?
For the ad tech community, election day felt like deja vu. Less than a year after the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into effect, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) passed through a ballot initiative. Like its predecessor, the CPRA will have dramatic implications for the ad tech Continue Reading
The Agency 100 | How Agencies Thrived Rather Than Survived in a Challenging Year
The public relations industry has undergone seismic changes shaped by this year’s unprecedented public health, economic, social and equal justice developments. Each year, my law firm Davis & Gilbert conducts a survey focused on the changes experienced by the public relations sector, and Continue Reading
Non-Prime Times | Eyes on the Road Ahead: Going Back to the Market for the Latest Outlook
If you want to know the road ahead, it’s usually best to ask someone who’s been there. Looking back, Credit Chronometer’s 2019 and early 2020 subprime auto surveys of industry insiders eerily foreshadowed the uncertainty facing the market today. In those pre-pandemic times, participants Continue Reading
Law360 | State Compliance Review a Must for Online Political Ads
With less than a month until the 2020 election and the presidential debates in full swing, campaigns are entering the crucial get-out-the-vote period of their campaigns and are doing everything they can to motivate their supporters and ensure voters get to the polls. Candidates up and down the Continue Reading