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"7 tips for surviving FHA’s annual recertification process" by Melissa Klimkiewicz and Kathryn L. Ryan (HousingWire)
The past year brought some good news for Federal Housing Administration mortgagees, as top Department of Housing and Urban Development officials continued to urge the Department of Justice to reduce reliance on the False Claims Act in enforcing FHA program requirements. Notwithstanding this...
Articles"Equipment finance: Understanding licensing obligations" by Kathryn L. Ryan (Equipment Leasing & Finance Magazine)
Licensing Considerations, Generally The applicability of state licensing laws may depend on multiple factors, including transaction structures, business entity types and whether the activities are appropriately classified as “commercial” or another type of non-consumer transaction. Although the...
Articles"The great data breach standing circuit split" by Amanda R. Lawrence (Law360)
Data breaches are back in the news in a big way. Over the past several weeks alone, prominent hotel chains, online platforms and retailers announced significant data breaches. Unsurprisingly, in the aftermath of these disclosures, consumers filed class actions alleging that the data breaches...
Articles"SEC tool could test executive online impulse control" (Legaltech News)
A message to corporate executives and their public-relations minders: One in a trillion may no longer be a reasonable guarantee of anonymity. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is confronting the difficult challenge of how to keep an eye on and sort through a fire hose of social media...
Articles"Congressional subpoenas, special prosecutors, and the Capitol jail—Let the games begin" by Preston Burton and Paige Ammons (Bloomberg Law)
President Donald Trump has been predictably defiant in responding to the suggestion that House Democrats will unleash their newly won subpoena powers to investigate him, his administration, or his companies, warning that he is prepared to assume a “war-like posture” and that the Democrats “can play...
Articles"Intra-franchise no-poach agreements: Recent developments and trends" by Adam Miller and Scott T. Sakiyama (Bloomberg Law)
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has obtained binding settlement agreements from 23 prominent franchisors in the nine months since he announced an initiative to eliminate no-poach clauses nationwide, and he has already expanded beyond the fast-food industry. Scrutiny of the clauses, which...
Articles“Local businessmen could be targeted by U.S. justice,” by Daniel R. Alonso (La Nación)
Los argentinos que han estado leyendo sobre el escándalo de los cuadernos pueden haberse sorprendido al leer recientemente que las autoridades de Estados Unidos se han interesado en investigar el asunto. ¿Los ejecutivos de negocios argentinos podrían ser interrogados por el FBI la próxima vez que...
Articles"Only criminals can clean up Argentina’s corruption" co-authored by Daniel R. Alonso (Foreign Policy)
In August, Argentina’s leading newspaper, La Nación , published an explosive report on public corruption. The newspaper obtained notebooks from a former government chauffeur that detailed tens of millions of dollars in bribes the driver delivered over a decade. Bribery was an open secret during the...
Articles"End of the Hollywood handshake deal" by Fredrick S. Levin (Daily Journal)
Stop us if you've heard this one before. A young actor, talented but unknown, is trying to break into the business. She is introduced to an entertainment lawyer who tells her he'll handle all of her modest legal work for "free" on the front end, and take a cut of whatever income she eventually...
Articles"How FTC is stepping up its consumer protection efforts" by Amanda Lawrence (Law360)
Recent changes in agendas and leadership at the federal level are prompting companies offering financial products and services to question what consumer protection enforcement will look like on the road ahead. There has been significant discussion about the increasing role of state regulators,...
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