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"Building effective internal communication channels" by Daniel R. Alonso, Andrew P. Pennacchia, Benjamin W. Hutten, and Norma Ramirez-Marin (from The Guide to Corporate Compliance, 2nd Ed.)
Daniel R. Alonso, Andrew P. Pennacchia, Benjamin W. Hutten, and Norma Ramirez-Marin wrote “Building effective internal communication channels,” a chapter in The Guide to Corporate Compliance, published by Latin Lawyer and designed to assist key corporate decision makers and their...
Books"The prosecutors owe New York silence: They must keep quiet as they consider charges against Cuomo" by Daniel R. Alonso (Daily News)
In the aftermath of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s thorough and critical report about alleged sexual harassment by Gov. Cuomo, no fewer than five elected district attorneys have announced that they will review the report for potential criminality. Although it focuses on allegations of...
Articles"Shedding light on dark patterns: What financial institutions need to know" by Elizabeth E. McGinn, Amanda R. Lawrence, and Sherry-Maria Safchuk (Cybersecurity Law Report)
Regulators, legislators and private litigants are increasingly looking at how companies attract and conduct business with consumers in online settings, and particularly whether these companies are designing user experiences to manipulate behavior in a way that can prove harmful to the consumer. The...
Articles"Challenges of voir dire in a white collar case" by Hank Asbill (The Champion)
Hank Asbill and Nadav Ariel wrote an article in the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' The Champion magazine on the challenges of voir dire in a white collar case. Click here to read the full article . Subscription required.
ArticlesSpecial Alert: Colorado enacts comprehensive consumer privacy law
On July 7, the Colorado governor signed SB 21-190 to create the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) and establish a framework for personal data privacy rights. Colorado now joins Virginia and California as the third state in the nation to enact comprehensive consumer privacy laws. In 2018, California became...
Special AlertsSpecial Alert: CFPB specifies pandemic foreclosure protections and signals tight supervision and enforcement around servicer efforts
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Covid-relief mortgage servicing rule issued yesterday steered away from a nationwide foreclosure freeze as initially proposed, instead creating heightened protections for those borrowers who became seriously delinquent during the pandemic. The distinction...
Special Alerts"Lessons from the DA’s race: Manhattan voters don’t embrace radical criminal justice reforms" by Daniel R. Alonso (Daily News)
It’s over, sort of. Manhattan has never seen a district attorney election (well, primary, but let’s not quibble) like this one. Nine candidates threw their hat in the ring, and astonishingly, eight stuck it out to the end. We don’t yet have definitive results, but the in-person vote shows Alvin...
Articles"Opinion: How mortgage servicers can prepare for a crackdown from the CFPB” by Sasha Leonhardt, Jon David D. Langlois, and David McGee (National Mortgage News)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is drawing a line in the sand for the mortgage servicing industry with new guidance and proposed revisions to its mortgage servicing rules. The CFPB expects that the impending expiration of federal foreclosure and forbearance protections for mortgagees will...
Articles"The pendulum always swings twice: Disparate impact under the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations" by Jeffrey P. Naimon and Sasha Leonhardt (American Bar Association Consumer Financial Services Committee Newsletter)
For over forty years, courts took the lead on interpreting the Fair Housing Act’s (“FHA’s”) prohibition on discriminatory housing practices, including home mortgage lending. While different administrations have varied as to whether the Supreme Court’s disparate impact theory from the Griggs v. Duke...
Articles"Wall Street money a canard in DA race" by Daniel R. Alonso (Daily News)
In a year when more than a dozen people are running for New York City mayor, the race for Manhattan district attorney is not getting much attention. That’s a mistake. A vacant seat in this crucial office — which has only had four incumbents in the past 83 years, going back to Thomas E. Dewey — is a...
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