Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Allen Sattler to its Orange County office as a partner in the Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice.

San Francisco Partner Gordon Calhoun will give a presentation titled “What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You: Artificial Intelligence (AI) vs. Individual Privacy Rights,” at the 2020 LegalTech conference, taking place in New York City on February 4-6.

California’s Contractors’ State License Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 7000 et seq., requires licensees to provide various pieces of information to the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) both in the application for an original contractors license and “within 90 days” of a triggering event. 

Dallas Partner Elisaveta "Leiza" Dolghih recently authored an article for the Dallas Bar Association’s (DBA) Headnotes’ January 2020 issue, titled “Protecting Business Secrets,” discussing Trade Secret Litigation.

While much has been made of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect on January 1, 2020, new security laws in other states – like Nevada – have been almost entirely ignored.

Two recent decisions, one from the Supreme Court of Kentucky and the other from the Supreme Court of Ohio, addressed the issue of liability for police officers and political subdivisions, respectively, following claims that arose from motor vehicle accidents caused during suspect vehicle pursuits. The two courts took opposing views, with one expanding liability and the other limiting it. This alert provides a summary of these cases.

Portland Partner Simone McCormick will give a presentation at the DRI Women in the Law Seminar titled “The End of Lawlessness: Your Data, your Decision,” on Thursday, January 23 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Missouri legislators were silent on employment and labor law in 2019, neither presenting nor enacting any legislation in the area. The Missouri Supreme Court, on the other hand, actively handed down rulings in labor and employment.

In California, the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits discrimination based on race, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex and gender, among other categories. In addition, the FEHA provides an express cause of action for discrimination based on association with individuals in a category protected by the Act. These types of claims primarily arise in the context of disability discrimination.

Phoenix Partners Jessica Beckwith and Sean Healy will give a presentation titled “Tips for Ethically Protecting Your Clients, Yourself and the Rights of Third Parties."

New York Partner Alecia Walters-Hinds obtained a very favorable verdict after a two-week damages-only trial in Queens Supreme, limiting a potential multimillion-dollar verdict to a jury award of less than $150,000.

Dallas Partner Katherine Compton recently authored an article for the Texas Bar Journal’s annual Year in Review issue. 

As the Internal Revenue Service warned tax professionals in November, malicious actors are currently attempting to hack into tax preparers’ networks to steal 2020 tax return information. If you are a professional tax preparer, you are a target – regardless of the size of your business.

Boston Partners Kenneth B. Walton and John T. Harding recently prevailed in a jury trial in Middlesex County Superior Court in Massachusetts on behalf of our client, a famed architect.

Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Partner Simone McCormick will join a panel presentation at the Eugene ISSA & Technology Association of Oregon (TAO) Cybersecurity Meetup on January 9 at Capitello Wines in Eugene, Oregon.