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• Blog: Labor & Employment
  Blog: Employment Advice & Counseling
  Date: July 01, 2022 Title: Three Tips for Updating, Enforcing Arbitration Agreements to Minimize PAGA Exposure in California Following Supreme Court’s Viking River Decision
  Summary: For almost two decades, the California Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA) has vexed employers and resulted in significant increased exposure to wage and hour claims. To limit exposure, many employers have implemented arbitration agreements that include class and PAGA representative action waivers, which appeared unenforceable. However, in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, the U.S. Supreme Court recently breathed new life into this strategy....
• Blog: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
  Date: June 28, 2022 Title: Privacy Protection Patchwork, Part IV: How the Connecticut Data Privacy Act Could Impact Your Business
  Summary: The number of states enacting comprehensive privacy laws is growing, adding to the existing patchwork of privacy, security, and data breach notification laws that keep legal and compliance personnel busy. This five-part series will highlight key provisions in a few of the new comprehensive privacy laws and regulations. Each week we will examine laws in a new state and provide recommendations on what steps businesses should consider taking. In Part IV, we discuss the Connecticut Data Privacy Act.....
• Blog: Entertainment, Media & Sports
  Blog: Labor & Employment
  Date: June 28, 2022 Title: Introducing The Official Review - Lewis Brisbois’ Sports Law Blog
  Summary: Welcome to The Official Review! As the sports law arena continues to develop and grow more complex, Lewis Brisbois’ Entertainment, Media & Sports Practice has established this blog as an additional resource for our clients and other interested parties....
• Blog: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
  Date: June 27, 2022 Title: The “Follina” Vulnerability: Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool Alert for Zero Day Exploit CVE-2022-30190
  Summary: On May 30, 2022, Microsoft issued an alert regarding a vulnerability in its Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool that can be exploited using Microsoft Office documents and results in the unauthorized installation of programs or access to data.The vulnerability evades common protections associated with Microsoft Office documents, requires minimal user interaction, and can be used by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges to fully take over a machine, or deploy additional malware....
• Blog: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
  Date: June 24, 2022 Title: North Carolina Prohibits Ransom Payments by State and Local Government Agencies
  Summary: North Carolina made national headlines recently as the first state to prohibit state agencies and local government entities from paying a ransom following an attack. But N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-800 goes one step further, prohibiting those entities from even communicating with a threat actor following an attack....
• Blog: Labor & Employment
  Date: June 21, 2022 Title: Four Big Benefits to Bringing an Anti-SLAPP Motion in a California Employment Lawsuit
  Summary: California enacted its anti-SLAPP (i.e., Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) statute to provide a procedural remedy early in litigation to dispose of lawsuits that are brought to chill the valid exercise of constitutional rights. In the employment context, an anti-SLAPP motion most often is used to attack a defamation cause of action, but it can apply to any cause of action regardless of title, so long as it comes within the four types of protected speech....
• Blog: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
  Date: June 20, 2022 Title: Privacy Protection Patchwork, Part III: What Your Business Should Know About Utah’s Consumer Privacy Act
  Summary: The number of states enacting comprehensive privacy laws is growing, adding to the existing patchwork of privacy, security, and data breach notification laws that keep legal and compliance personnel busy. This five-part series will highlight key provisions in a few of the new comprehensive privacy laws and regulations. Each week we will examine laws in a new state and provide recommendations on what steps businesses should consider taking. In Part III, we discuss the Utah Consumer Privacy Act....
• Blog: Entertainment, Media & Sports
  Blog: Labor & Employment
  Date: June 17, 2022 Title: NCAA Transformation Committee Announces Recommendations for Modifications to Transfer Rule and Infractions Process
  Summary: After months of focused efforts, the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Transformation Committee has announced its formal recommendations that would limit a student athlete’s access to enter the transfer portal to specific time windows, as well as proposed changes to the current NCAA bylaw infractions process, which are intended to lead to quicker conclusions and findings....
• Blog: Labor & Employment
  Blog: ADA Compliance & Defense
  Date: June 15, 2022 Title: Every Service Dog Gets Two Bites: Reasonable Access and Reasonable Accommodation Obligations Under the ADA
  Summary: As American workers continue returning to the office and facilities across the country continue to reopen following pandemic-induced closures, service and support animals are becoming increasingly present in our workplaces. These animals, particularly dogs, help people with a range of disabilities, and their presence in the workplace presents employers and business owners with distinctly different obligations under Titles I and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)....
• Blog: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
  Date: June 13, 2022 Title: Privacy Protection Patchwork, Part II: How the Colorado Privacy Act Could Impact Your Business
  Summary: The number of states enacting comprehensive privacy laws is growing, adding to the existing patchwork of privacy, security, and data breach notification laws that keep legal and compliance personnel busy. This five-part series will highlight key provisions in a few of the new comprehensive privacy laws and regulations. Each week we will examine laws in a new state and provide recommendations on what steps businesses should consider taking. In Part II, we explore the Colorado Privacy Act....