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Technology - Law Firms Effective Security Practices Now A National Requirement
The Federal Trade Commission's recent settlement with BJ's Wholesale Club makes an effective security program a national requirement for any company that holds personal information, regardless of industry or specific statutory or regulatory requirements. To the FTC, a failure to develop and...
Read MoreProject: Corporate Counsel Part II (Compliance Readiness) - Law Firms Keeping Up With Safety And Environmental Challenges
Perhaps the greatest public policy success story of the last 20 years has been internalization of an environmental compliance ethic by major corporations. Issues that in the 1970s and 1980s demanded almost daily attention from in-house counsel now have become the province of manufacturing,...
Read MoreProject: Corporate Counsel - Law Firms Insurance Commissioners Contemplate Extending Sarbanes-Oxley To All Insurers
Introduction The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is moving toward incorporating certain provisions of the federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) into its Model Regulation Requiring Annual Audited Financial Reports (Model Audit Rule) that is applicable to all insurers,...
Read MoreHas Employment Arbitration Finally Come Of Age?
Companies have long understood the appeal of arbitrating employment disputes. Jurors often can identify with an employee complaining about his or her boss, and see the employer as an insensitive behemoth with deep pockets.The confidential and informal nature of mandatory arbitration can also...
Read MorePrivacy Highlights For 2005: Hot Topics To Watch
2005 promises to be a year of significant activity on privacy and security issues, both in terms of new obligations and enforcement of older rules. For the health care industry, these developments fall into two primary categories - those that affect health care entities exclusively and those that...
Read MoreRFID Experiences Important Growth And Regulatory Attention
Radio frequency identification ("RFID") devices - small microchips with antennas that can be affixed to movable goods for identification and tracking - have attracted considerable attention over the past year. Even though the technology has been in use for decades, recent advances in microchip...
Read MoreChanging Roles For Today's Corporate Compliance Programs
Since the passage of the original Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations in 1991, organizations of all sorts have focused on the need to develop and implement effective corporate compliance programs. Now, through a series of independent but simultaneous legal developments, for the first time...
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