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US Federal Reserve Board Announces Retirement of General Counsel Scott G. Alvarez

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

The US Federal Reserve Board announced that Scott G. Alvarez, general counsel, will retire later in 2017......
By: Shearman & Sterling LLP

5 Tips for Managing Conflict and Strong Emotions in the Workplace

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

Any entrepreneur or small business owner knows: successful business owners and productive employees often have strong personalities. And if you get too many strong personalities in one office, you're bound to have some conflict.

OCR’s Latest Health Breach Investigations Yield Big Settlements

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

In a span of a few weeks in early January 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced two major settlements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) relating to the...

EBA Publishes Final Draft RTS Report Specifying Requirements on More Secure Customer Authentication

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

On February 23, 2017, the European Banking Authority (“EBA“) published a report setting out its final draft regulatory technical standards (“RTS“) on strong customer authentication and common and secure communication under Article 98 of the Directive...

Environmental Law Update: Comment Period for Three Proposed Toxic Substances Rules to Close in March

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

In June 2016, then-President Barack Obama signed into law the first major revisions to the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”) in decades. The newly enacted Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (“Lautenberg Act” or the...

Missouri Supreme Court Significantly Limits Personal Jurisdiction in Nation's "Number One Judicial Hellhole"

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

On February 28, 2017, the Missouri Supreme Court issued an opinion significantly limiting the state’s personal jurisdiction over corporations. This limitation on statewide jurisdiction includes the courts of the City of St. Louis, which was named the...

New FCC Stays ISP Data Security Rules from Wheeler Era

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

On Wednesday, the Chairman Pai-led FCC adopted an Order granting a stay of the data security rules that were adopted as part of the Commission’s 2016 Privacy Order spearheaded by former FCC Chairman Wheeler. The stay will maintain the data security...

Supreme Court Interprets Patent Law on Invention’s Components

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

The U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp., No. 14-1538, (February 22, 2017), interpreted 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(1), which creates liability for supplying components of multi-component patented inventions for assembly...

Proposed Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017 Seeks to Curb Attorney Abuses of Class Action Device and Expand Class Action Defendant Protections

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

On February 9, 2017, Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-Va.), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017 (the “Act” or “H.R. 985”). The Act significantly expands the class action reforms...

Mobility Clause in Redundancy Situation

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in Kellogg Brown & Root (UK) Ltd v (1) Fitton UKEAT/0205/16 and (2) Ewer UKEAT/0206/16 considered whether two employees had been unfairly dismissed for redundancy when they refused to relocate to another office....

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