2019

Time to Get Serious About Microchipping Employees and Biometric Privacy Laws

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Davis Polk Avi Gesser* Until recently, biometric privacy was a niche area of the law that had little application to most companies.  But with the rapid growth in commercial biometric data collection, including voice samples, fingerprints, retina scans, and facial geometry, as well as some recent developments in the applicable case law, it’s probably time

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Unregistered Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty to Defrauding the IRS of Over $175,000 through a Fraudulent Tax Return Filing Scheme

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LOS ANGELES – A Las Vegas, Nevada, resident pleaded guilty today to engaging in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service of over $175,000 through the submission of fraudulent federal income tax returns submitted on behalf of his clients. Patrick Nathaniel McCall, 39, who operated in Murrieta, California, as a paid income tax return preparer

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White & Case Shatters the $2 Billion Gilded Ceiling

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White & Case are only part way through their globe-girdling growth path but have now cross over the $2 billion mark in revenues, growing revenues by $246 million in 2018. An ALM report on the firm showed that revenue per lawyer jumped 7.8 percent to $954,000, and profits per equity partner increased 6.2 percent to

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The Roastbusters Scandal and How Antiquated Language Places Sexual Assault Complainants in Further Jeopardy

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Brenda Midson* One of New Zealand’s most notorious sexual misconduct cases re-emerged recently when a ringleader of the Roast Busters, a group of teenagers who were investigated five years ago for alleged sexual offences against underage girls, gave a television interview. The interview sparked outrage, and the broadcaster was criticised for providing a platform for the group’s leader, while

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Building Authority: Using Social Media to Boost The Reputation of Your Business

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Ben Shepardson* Being a business owner is never easy. Whether you’re a law firm, a startup or a small business, you’ve got the unenviable task of standing out from a sea of competitors, and that means building a reputation for yourself. Yet a smaller business doesn’t always have the resources of more well-established ones. This

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Romance Scams of Elderly Net Another Fraudster In Multimillion Dollar Scam

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            Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue

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NZ Law Society Not To Review Sexual Harassment Finding Against Lawyer

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The New Zealand Law Society is not seeking a review of a finding by a lawyers standards committee that a lawyer was guilty of unsatisfactory conduct after he sexually harassed two of his law firm’s employees. The decision was published recently. The Law Society has stated its position in response to comments by some lawyers

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Fraudulent Wire Transfer Leads to Insurance Dispute for Law Firm

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A recent court decision in Canada involving an insurance coverage dispute between an international law firm and its insurance provider arose from an inadvertent wire transfer by a Vancouver-based law firm associate of $2.5 million of his client’s funds into a fraudster’s Hong Kong account.  The associate represented a client in a sale of real property, which

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NZ Law Tech Innovator With Tech Tips For Law Firms

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The ongoing development of legal technology is changing many things in the legal profession and the need to understand what is happening has become more important than ever for the profession. But law firms can innovate without having to spend a great deal too, as was recently demonstrated by legal entrepreneur Tamina Cunningham-Adam, one of

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