LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy Practice
Massachusetts regulations to protect consumer personal information contain March 1, 2012 deadline.
LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Celia Kendrick, François Vergne, Matthew Howse, Walter Ahrens
European Commission proposal for a new General Data Protection Regulation aims to strengthen and harmonise data protection law across Europe.
LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Lauren Licastro, W. Reece Hirsch, Andy Anderson
HIPAA-covered entities, including employer health plan sponsors, should watch the mail for a letter from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act requ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Ron Dreben, Kenneth Kliebard, K. Roney, Gregory Parks, W. Reece Hirsch
Recognizing that business entities now conduct a majority of their operations with the assistance of electronic programs and databases, and that a significant amount of business and personal information may be stored electronica... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Cross-Practice Alert
Stephen Mahinka, Karen Butcher
After almost three years of review and analysis, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on October 6 released proposed revisions to its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims, generally termed the "Green Guides" (the G... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
eData Practice
In a much-anticipated opinion in the Quon [1] matter, on June 17 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to set precedent on broad issues of employee privacy expectations in workplace communicatio... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Intellectual Property LawFlash
Intellectual Property Practice
Massachusetts has joined the growing list of states that are requiring businesses to encrypt and secure personal data. On March 1, 2010, new regulations will take effect that apply to all "persons who own, license, store or mai... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | FDA and Healthcare LawFlash
FDA and Healthcare Practice
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the stimulus bill) brings new focus and billions in funding for the development and use of health information technology (HIT), including the use of electronic health records ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Immigration Alert
Immigration Practice
On July 16, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), published policy guidance with respect to its authority to conduct border searches of information contained in doc... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
eData Practice
On June 18, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co. , No. 07-55282 (9th Cir.), that employee text messages are subject to the Stored Communications Act of 1986, and that employees... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Investment Management FYI
Magda El Guindi-Rosenbaum, Monica Parry
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed amendments to Regulation S-P, which sets forth privacy obligations for entities it regulates. To help prevent and address security breaches and better protect investor i... more
Presentation | Speech
Barbara Melby
Outside Publication | Article
Gregory Parks
LawFlash/Client Alert | Securities Industry FYI
Securities Industry
On March 20, 2007, eight federal regulators (the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Trade Commission, the National C... more
Presentation | Webinar
Joseph Fay, J. Cooney, Jr., Gregory Parks
LawFlash/Client Alert | Resources in Real Time
Morgan Lewis Resources
The rapid development of e-commerce in the past 15 years has resulted in new opportunities for criminals. Fraudulent access to a person’s bank or credit card account can be obtained with little more than a name, address, ... more
Presentation | Webinar
Kenneth Turnbull, Mark Dichter, François Vergne, Walter Ahrens
In this webinar, the European Partners of Morgan Lewis's International Employment Practice explored the impact of EU data privacy principles on U.S. litigation discovery. Topics in this presentation included: Responding to ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits
2006 marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of HIPAA, and this spring brings a HIPAA privacy reminder, the application of HIPAA security rules to small plans and the finalization of HIPAA enforcement rules for HIPAA violation... more
Presentation | Webinar
Kenneth Turnbull, Mark Dichter, François Vergne, Walter Ahrens
Presentation | Speech
Stephanie Blair
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits
By now, you are probably familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and the many requirements it imposes on group health plans (and the employers that sponsor them), health care pr... more
May/June 2004
Newsletter | Morgan Lewis on Intellectual Property and Technology
Intellectual Property and Technology
In this Issue: Door Still Open on Trademark Keywords: The practice of selling a third party’s trademark to generate an advertisement for another company continues to be controversial and in the news. Although ... more
Presentation | Speech
L. Julius Turman
Outside Publication | Article
L. Julius Turman
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment
With less than two months before the April 14, 2003 deadline for compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Regulations, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services published the final HIPAA Security Regulations on February 20, 20... more