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Safe Harbor
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Legal Profession Blog
Utah On Flat Fees And Safe Harbors
A significant opinion of the Utah Supreme Court confirmed and reversed in part the district court's denial of summary judgment to an attorney who had accepted flat fees treated as…
Eye On Privacy
A COPPA First: Safe Harbor Program Removed From Approved List
The FTC recently announced the removal of Aristotle International, Inc. from the list of seven approved safe harbor programs under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Programs that are approved…
Who Is My Employee?
Now is the Time to Add These Safe Harbor Clauses to Your Independent Contractor Agreements
I just finished reading The Longest Day, the 1959 book by Cornelius Ryan that tells the story of the D-Day landing from Allied, French, and German perspectives. The book covers…
SEC Actions
Digital Assets, Investing and Clarity
Is a three year safe harbor for digital tokens necessary for developers to determine if security law type disclosures are required when selling it? This is the question initially raised…
Southwest Florida Business and IP Blog
COVID-19 Legal Safe Harbor Signed into Florida Law
The Florida House of Representatives passed S.B. 72 in a decisive 83-31 vote, a bill that would give businesses and health care providers a legal safe harbor from COVID-19 injury…
Beneficially Yours
How to SECURE Your Safe Harbor Plan
By Christina Cerasale, Sarah Touzalin
Seyfarth Synopsis: The IRS issued Notice 2020-86, which provides guidance on the rules that apply to safe harbor plans that were changed by the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement…
Hall Benefits Law Blog
Employee Handbook Series Part 1 of 3: Three Tips to Manage Legal Risk Through a Safe Harbor Policy
By Anne Hall
Many employers understand that only salaried employees are exempt from minimum wage and overtime requirements. There is, however, understandable confusion (not to mention operational difficulties) surrounding the permissible deductions from…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Are Changes to the DMCA on the Horizon?
On June 2, technology companies and copyright holders testified before Congress about the effectiveness of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) “safe harbor” provision. These testimonies came after the U.S.…
The Privacy Hacker
Schrems II: EU Personal Data Transfers to the U.S. and the Invalidation of the Privacy Shield
By Céline Guillou, Chiara Portner
Despite three annual reviews by European Union Commissioners, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) invalidated the Privacy Shield and called into question many transfers of personal data pursuant to the…
Cybersecurity Lawyer Forum
EU Court Invalidates Privacy Shield – What’s Next for Data Transfers and International Trade?
Shrems II – Groundhog Day, All Over Again Past is Prologue One of the keys to the European’s Union data protection regime has been the prohibition against transferring personal data…