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The California Attorney General began exercising enforcement authority under the CCPA on January 1, 2020. Among the CCPA’s enumerated rights for consumers, the cornerstone of the CCPA, is the right to opt out of the collection of personal information. In Sephora’s case, the Attorney General...
On July 15, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of eleven investigations as part of its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative (the "Initiative"). OCR created...
No ‘slam dunk fix’ in HIPAA privacy law to protect abortion patients The Biden administration wants to lean on the decades-old privacy law to protect abortion patients. What could it actually do? “Typically, the laws are trying to catch up with where the real world is, in terms of what’s going on...
TAX TREATY PRIMER—AN OVERVIEW OF TAX TREATIES AND TAX TREATY PLANNING TECHNIQUES David Shapiro, Chair of the Firm's Tax Practice, will be speaking at the NYU School of Professional Studies on Monday, July 11, 2022. His topic will be "Tax Treaty Primer - An Overview of Tax Treaties and Tax Treaty...
On June 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights released two guidance documents addressing (1) disclosures under the HIPAA Privacy Rule relating to reproductive health care (“Disclosure Guidance”), and (2) the privacy and security of reproductive health...
“Penny wise but pound foolish” first appeared in writing over 500 years ago. This idiom captures the wisdom of human experience in just five words: shortcuts that appear to save money are more expensive in the long run. Sometimes much more. Further proof of this eternal truth - and one taxpayer’s...
Rob Duston is a business lawyer and litigator with more than 30 years of experience helping businesses, schools and other entities, primarily in three areas of the law: compliance with the public access requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Fair Housing Act (FHA), Section 504 of...
George Magnatta is chair of the firm's Public Finance Practice. His practice focuses on serving as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, borrower's counsel, and tax counsel for states, cities, economic development authorities, housing authorities, and non-profit entities in the implementation and...
David Berk counsels families and their businesses, entrepreneurs and start-up companies in taxation, structuring transactions, contract negotiations and governance issues. David also advises clients on corporate succession planning, trust and estate planning, insurance and retirement planning and...
George "Ned" Rahn focuses his practice on commercial litigation including national and international construction matters. He has handled matters for contractors, engineering firms, owners, and surety bond companies in a variety of contexts. Ned has dealt with matters for general contractors...
Eric Orlinsky co-chairs the firm's Corporate Practice and its Private Equity/Venture Capital subgroup and concentrates his practice in general business and securities law and counsels clients in private equity and venture capital investments, public and private offerings of debt and equity...
Andrew Bockis helps clients obtain and defend environmental permits for their projects. Industrial projects are subject to ever-changing rules and increased agency review time. Whether related to industrial warehouses or oil and gas facilities or renewable energy projects, many business leaders are...
Alexander (Sandy) R. Bilus assists clients who are facing complex commercial litigation or who need legal advice on issues involving cybersecurity and data privacy, particularly in the higher education and financial services industries. Sandy's litigation experience includes arguing cases before the...
Pamela Goodwin represents clients in the energy, oil and gas, solid waste, agriculture and many other industries in matters involving environmental permitting, counseling and litigation. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience, Pamela assists with acquisition, development and siting of pipeline...
John Stoviak handles high-stakes litigation, complex trials and appeals for business, energy and environmental clients in courts throughout the United States, and he represents colleges, universities, and independent schools in delicate governance matters and issues. He has achieved two $100 million...
Robert Christoffel is a tax attorney who advises clients on U.S. domestic and cross-border transactional as well as international tax matters. Public and private companies and private equity funds look to him to structure and negotiate taxable and tax-free corporate mergers and acquisitions (share...
Franklin Zemel focuses on cybersecurity and privacy law, First Amendment and civil rights litigation, complex business litigation, and appellate law. Franklin represents large and small businesses, manufacturers, and religious entities in South Florida and has several significant reported cases.
Mike Finio helps companies sort through antitrust and competition-related issues posed by federal and state antitrust law, the government regulatory and litigation-based enforcement that arises from it, and private antitrust activity. Mike's representation of publicly and privately held businesses...