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Ready for a crash course in online marketing and SEO for lawyers and law students? Here you go. This Stuff Isn’t That Hard - Before we get started, let’s clear up one common misconception, which is that it’s impossibly hard to run your own...

On December 5, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced its intent to launch an online complaint system that will provide workers another avenue to file whistleblower retaliation claims...

Generally, the European Patent Office does not allow claims to methods involving the use of human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes. It was therefore perhaps not surprising that the Examiner objected to the claims of EP 05028411.6, which...

FEMA Clarifies Time Extension for Victims of Sandy - Why it matters: Given the unprecedented meteorological event known colloquially as “Superstorm Sandy,” the Federal Emergency Management Agency granted multiple extensions for National Flood...

The Better Business Bureau’s Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program issued three compliance decisions involving an advertiser, its agency and the provider of a self-service demand side platform in relation to the advertiser’s...

According to recent post from Property Casualty 360°, The Six Trends of Cyber Risk in 2014, insurers need to know: 1. Data breach costs are trending downward. The cost per record to respond to a breach dropped from $194 to $188 and is expected to...

A Minnesota jury recently awarded $22.7 million to Relco in a trade secrets case. Relco sued two former employees, claiming that they took thousands of confidential files to a Wisconsin competitor. The lawsuit alleges that Troy Gascoigne and Roger...

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on December 4 issued an advisory to financial institutions based on the Financial Action Task Force’s updated lists of jurisdictions with strategic anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist...

Web cameras, burglar alarms, fitness monitors, smartphones, and a host of other internet connected devices all have the potential to invade privacy by collecting and sharing personal information. Yet in many cases, the manufacturers and distributors...

In 2013 geolocation and biometrics were hot topics. Apple included a fingerprint reader on the new iPhone which was either really cool or an epic fail depending on your viewpoint, and Google and the NSA are tracking our every move....

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