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What Retailers Can Learn from Recent Bankruptcies
March 01, 2018
Understanding the factors leading up to these bankruptcies, as well as the strategies used by retailers to emerge from bankruptcy, can give retailers significant knowledge about trends in consumer spending and how retailers can improve their overall positions going forward.
Marketing Tech: Finding a Few More Minutes for Marketing and Business Development
March 01, 2018
Years ago, when trying to improve some of my snacking habits, I stopped buying cookies, candy and savory chips. Magically (and perhaps obviously), I quickly found that I ate less junk food. In effort to find a few more minutes a day for marketing, I recently applied this same basic, but effective, technique to my time management and the results have been just as immediate.
Monk Estate Suit Against Beer Co. Moves Forward
March 01, 2018
A Northern California craft brewery lost an early attempt to knock out a lawsuit brought by the son of jazz legend Thelonious Monk, who claims the brewery uses Monk's name and likeness without permission.
Development
March 01, 2018
Failure to Require SEIS Not Arbitrary<br>Board of Fire Commissioners Lacks Standing to Challenge SEQRA Determination<br>Challenge to Pilot Agreement Reinstated<br>Statute of Limitations Bars Challenge to Excessive Height<br>Billboard Regulation Upheld
Wells Fargo, Ending Its Appeal, Settles Whistleblower's $577K Retaliation Case
March 01, 2018
Wells Fargo &amp; Co. has reached a settlement with a former branch manager who claimed she was fired for blowing the whistle on employees who had been…
Wells Fargo, Ending Its Appeal, Settles Whistleblower's $577K Retaliation Case
March 01, 2018
Wells Fargo &amp; Co. has reached a settlement with a former branch manager who claimed she was fired for blowing the whistle on employees who had been opening accounts without permission, the sales-pressure conduct at issue in a scandal that erupted in 2016.
<i>e-Discovery:</i> Four Cases Highlighting e-Discovery Trends in the Second Half of 2017
March 01, 2018
In the second half of 2017, case law served to clarify what does and does not constitute reasonable policies and procedures for preserving information subject to discovery — as well as the risks you run if you fail to follow through on those policies.
Online Marketing Practices Continue to Pose Regulatory Threats for the Financial Services Industry
March 01, 2018
Last year, the FTC released a staff report on Cross-Device Tracking, which added to the FTC's efforts to regulate emerging issues in the ever-evolving area of online behavioral advertising. The advertising in question involves the collection of data from a particular computer or device regarding a user's Internet-viewing behavior over time and across non-affiliate websites. Cross-device tracking is the logical next step for this technology.
Serving Two Masters: When 'Bankruptcy Remote' Meets Public Policy
March 01, 2018
<i><b>How Lenders to BREs Can Reduce the Risk of Debtor Bankruptcy Without Compromising Public Policies</b></i><p>Structured financing transactions, including those pertaining to commercial real estate, make extensive use of entities formed for the specific purpose of reducing the likelihood that assets will be involved in a potential bankruptcy proceeding. Known as “bankruptcy-remote entities,” or “BREs,” these entities are subject to structures and covenants in financing documents and their own formation documents, which are designed to reduce the likelihood that the BRE will file for bankruptcy protection.
<i>Leadership:</i> No Immunity: Sexual Harassment & the Legal Industry
March 01, 2018
For members of a conservative industry that — literally — wrote the rulebook on sexual harassment, law firms need to be ready for a day of reckoning that seems inescapable (and may have already happened by the time this article is published).

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