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Many of the attorneys in the Law Firm Alliance author articles and thought leadership pieces on important topics and trends covering a wide variety of practices.  

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The Internal Revenue Service Waives Requirements in Response to Coronavirus

March 10, 2020
Richard C. Smith and Otto S. Shill, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. - Tax Blog
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New York’s New Data Security Requirements

March 9, 2020
Bobby N. Turnage, Jr., Sands Anderson PC

In the fall of last year, we wrote about the passage of the SHIELD Act (the Act) in New York, which expanded aspects of the state’s breach notification requirements (Breach Requirements) and created a statutory obligation to maintain reasonable data security (Security Requirements). While the Breach Requirements went into effect on October 23, 2019, the new Security Requirements will kick in on March 21, 2020. As mentioned in our previous post, the SHIELD Act will require any business or person that owns or licenses computerized, “private information” (as broadly defined in the Act) of a New York resident to develop, implement and maintain reasonable safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of the information. In this post, we’ll focus on what the Act says about how a business can achieve compliance with the Security Requirements.


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The Force Du Jour: Coronavirus and Force Majeure Clauses

March 8, 2020
Gaetano Piccirilli and Monica Clarke Platt
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NLRB Issues Final Rule on Joint Employer Status


Labor and Employment Law
Stephanie H. Fedorka, Bond, Schoeneck & King
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California Supreme Court Confirms Employer’s Exit Searches Must Be On-The-Clock

February 26, 2020
Kate Friend, Donahue Fitzgerald LLP

In a decision that should come as little surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to wage and hour cases coming out of the California Supreme Court in the last few years, the Court has ruled that employees who were required to submit to retailer’s exit bag checks must be compensated for their time. The case, Frlekin v. Apple, Inc. was decided by the request of the Ninth Circuit.


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