Jan 30, 2019 Health care hot topics for 2019 By Nicole Jobe The end of 2018 saw major developments in some of health care’s key areas, from cybersecurity to medical cannabis. As another year...
Jan 29, 2019 Social media photos, once again, are not fair game By Mark Sableman For those who missed the message five years ago that social media photos aren’t free to use, a new decision, Otto v. Hearst, has renewed...
Jan 28, 2019 ‘Aggrieved Persons’ can bring suit under Biometric Information Privacy Act By James Shreve Elizabeth Casale On Friday, January 25, 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court filed a unanimous opinion addressing whether one qualifies as an “aggrieved...
Jan 24, 2019 Copyright Office identifies visual arts copyright problems, solutions By Mark Sableman Our forms are antiquated and difficult to use. Our definition of “publication” is important but hard to understand and apply. Our process...
Jan 24, 2019 Rest in peace: ROFRs expire once a tenant becomes a holdover tenant By Jeff Brown In a case of first impression in California, the California Court of Appeal in Smyth v. Berman held that in the absence of specific...
Jan 18, 2019 Highlights from the Simply Tax podcast: How to choose an entity for a family business By Steve Gorin Choosing to structure a business as a C corporation, an S corporation, or an entity taxed as a partnership (often an LLC) is no simple...
Jan 17, 2019 HHS issues voluntary health care cybersecurity guidelines By Milada Goturi On December 28, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published the “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices...
Jan 16, 2019 Court rules subordination agreement bars junior creditor from obtaining discovery from senior creditor By David Warfield In a recent decision, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of Illinois strictly enforced a subordination agreement to...
Jan 11, 2019 Media literacy in a time of misinformation: A Q&A with Don Corrigan By Mark Sableman “Misinformation” was named the word of the year for 2018, and it’s clear we’ve entered a media world where separating truth from falsity...
Jan 04, 2019 OCR seeks public input on potential modifications to the HIPAA Rules By Thompson Coburn On December 14, 2018, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks public input on how the...
Jan 02, 2019 Pennsylvania Supreme Court provides new route for data security breach plaintiffs By James Shreve Elizabeth Casale Data security breaches have become ubiquitous. However, in spite of the large number of well-publicized incidents, plaintiffs generally...