Blog Post
Published 10/04/2022
By Robert L. Duston, Ruth A. Rauls, Erik P. Pramschufer
Alert
Published 10/03/2022
Industries Health Care
Services Cybersecurity and Privacy
On August 31st, the California legislative session closed without passing amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), meaning the CCPA’s prior exemptions for employment and business-to-business information will no longer apply. The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), which California voters adopted through a ballot initiative in November 2020, will amend and expand CCPA effective January 1, 2023. This is notable for businesses in the health care industry because CCPA and CPRA do not provide a blanket exemption for medical data; instead, only certain health care data sets...
Videos
Published 10/03/2022
Industries Video Gaming and Esports
There is a lot of talk about blockchains these days, and in this episode of “Lawyers With Game” hosts Darius Gambino and Angie de Cespedes from Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Video Gaming and Esports Practice talk with Andrew Levine, CEO, Koinos Group about the Koinos Blockchain. Andrew discusses his history working on the Steem and Hive Blockchains, his ‘gas’ fee free model for the Koinos Blockchain, and KOINS, the tokens that run the Koinos Blockchain. Andrew also talks about the future of the Koinos Blockchain as a place where Decentralized Apps (dApps) will be free and easy to use for...
Article
Published 09/29/2022
Industries Real Estate
Services Real Estate Services
Blog Post
Published 09/29/2022
By Jonathan A. Havens, Seth Gitner
Article
Published 09/28/2022
Industries Video Gaming and Esports
Alert
Published 09/27/2022
Services Litigation
It is not a good thing for a litigant when an esteemed United States District Judge begins a decision with a statement such as the following: As the court has repeatedly told defendants … this case has generated more meritorious motions to compel and for sanctions against defendants for failure to produce documents than any other case in which this court has presided in more than 37 years. So wrote Judge Mark L. Wolf of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in a lengthy memorandum and order entered in Red Wolf Energy Trading, LLC v. Bia Capital Management, LLC ,...
Article
Published 09/27/2022
Industries Real Estate
Videos
Published 09/26/2022
Industries Video Gaming and Esports
The Esports Trade Association is the focus of this episode of “Lawyers With Game.” Hosts Darius Gambino and Leah Leyendecker from Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Video Gaming and Esports Practice sit down with Megan Van Petten, Founder of the Esports Trade Association (ESTA) to talk about current happenings in the esports community. Megan discusses how she came to start the Esports Trade Association five years ago, and how it has grown since then. Megan also details her two podcasts (“Esports Connected” and “EsportsNext”), and the yearly “EsportsNext” meeting that the Esports Trade...
Blog Post
Published 09/21/2022
By Brandon R. Clark
Article
Published 09/20/2022
Services Appellate
Article
Published 09/19/2022
Industries Cannabis Law
Article
Published 09/19/2022
Industries Energy
Services Environmental
Videos
Published 09/19/2022
Industries Video Gaming and Esports
In this episode of “Lawyers With Game,” host Darius Gambino and Zach Kizitaff from Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Video Gaming and Esports Practice sit down with Joe Caputi, Director of Compliance at Prophet Exchange to talk about their new peer-to-peer betting platform. Peer-to-peer betting allow users to play the role of either the bettor or the house. Prophet Exchange’s newly-launched app is one of the first peer-to-peer betting apps available in the United States. They discuss the history of peer-to-peer betting, betting on the NFL, compliance issues, and much more!
Blog Post
Published 09/19/2022
By Ruth A. Rauls, Sondra Saporta
Alert
Published 09/14/2022
Services Cybersecurity and Privacy
The close of California’s legislative session on August 31 without amending the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) means that CCPA will soon apply to personal information that many businesses process concerning their employees, contractors, and applicants. CCPA had been amended in November of 2020 by a ballot initiative known as the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The amendments included a grace period until January 1, 2023 before CCPA would apply to employment information. Over the past year, some legislators proposed to extend the grace period further, but the close of the...
