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How to Achieve WorkLife Balance Tips and Tricks
Work-life balance has become a buzzword in recent years, and for good reason. In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive world, it seems like we are always racing against the clock, trying to balance our work responsibilities with our personal lives. The constant struggle to find the perfect equilibrium between the two can leave us feeling…
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Maryland PDAB Releases Draft Upper Payment Limit Action Plan
On August 9, Maryland’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) released its draft action plan for establishing upper payment limits (UPLs) for drugs identified as causing or likely to cause affordability challenges. The draft outlines the process for determining whether a UPL should be set and the amount of that UPL….By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
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Privacy Tip #411 – Phishing Attacks Increased 40% in 2023
Everyone thinks they can spot a phishing email. If true, we would not see so many security incidents, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. The statistics are overwhelming that phishing emails are a significant cause of data breaches….By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider
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Notifying Law Enforcement of Security Incidents – Dear Mary – Incidents + Investigations Cybersecurity Advice Column
“Dear Mary” is Troutman Pepper’s Incidents + Investigations team’s advice column. Here, you will find Mary’s answers to questions about anything and everything cyber-related — data breaches, forensic investigations, how to respond to regulators, and much more. “Dear Mary” goes beyond our articles, podcasts, webinars, and other content we produce because here, we respond directly…
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Key Insights from the NextGen GC Law Ninjas Summit 2024 – Sydney
The 2024 NextGen GC Summit, hosted by Law Ninjas, united 400+ of Australia’s legal professionals for an exceptional series of panels and discussions from a distinguished lineup. TransPerfect Legal’s Tom Balmer (Director, APAC), Kapilan Rasiah (Director, Melbourne) and Shulagna Sabir (Account Manager, Sydney) had the pleasure of attending. For those who could not be there,…
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FemTech and the use of AI
Due to an exponential growth in the investment in female health and wellbeing, Forbes and Dealroom reported that 2023 saw 1.14 billion USD raised collectively across 120 deals in ‘FemTech’….By: DLA Piper
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Cybersecurity Researchers Identify Common Misconfiguration with Oracle NetSuite SuiteCommerce Platform That May Result in Data Breaches
On August 15, 2024, cybersecurity researchers at AppOmni warned consumers of a potential issue that they discovered in the Oracle NetSuite SuiteCommerce platform that could allow hackers to access sensitive customer data. More specifically, researchers have found that thousands of businesses using Oracle NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce platform are at risk of leaking sensitive customer information due…
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VeriSource Services Announces Data Breach Affecting 55k Clients’ Employees
On August 21, 2024, VeriSource Services, Inc. (“VSI”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Texas after discovering that an unauthorized party was able to access information in the company’s possession. In this notice, VeriSource explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access sensitive information belonging…
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Deposition in Hand, Party Need Not Testify at Trial
Are personal injury plaintiffs legally required to testify at their trials? Actually, not. Under the right circumstances, deposition testimony can be used in lieu of live trial testimony if the trial court finds that the witness is “unavailable.” In the federal system, Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides several grounds for……By:…
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CPSC Issues Unilateral Recall Press Release Involving “Uncooperative” Retailer Of Smoke Detector
On May 16, 2024, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) took an unconventional action, unilaterally issuing a recall announcement urging consumers to dispose of CHZHVAN Combination Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detectors after reports that the detectors failed to alarm in the presence of smoke. The recall press release notes that the seller of…