Insights

3/31/2020 2:07:00 PM

Red-Flagged by the Black Box: Nationalizing Apps to Fight COVID-19

By Phil Gura

Many of us have not read about China’s near-nationalization of payment and chat apps to fight the spread of COVID-19. Widely-reported...

3/27/2020 7:00:00 PM

House Approves CARES Act; President Signs $2 Trillion Stimulus Package

By Carri Bennet

The CARES Act (short for Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) was approved by the United States Senate Wednesday night by...

3/27/2020 6:49:00 PM

Antitrust & Competition Law in the Age of a Global Pandemic

By Jason Hicks Matthew F. Tilley

It is said that people “come together” in times of crisis. Yet, businesses should be wary of collaboration with their rivals because...

3/27/2020 5:07:00 PM

Torturous Treatment of Transatlantic Trusts

By Womble Bond Dickinson

I say Settlor…The popularity of lifetime trust giving in the UK has been on a downward trend since April 2006 when the Labour government...

3/27/2020 4:12:00 PM

Congress Passes Historic Coronavirus Relief Act

By Womble Bond Dickinson

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) was passed by Congress and signed by the President on March 27,...

3/27/2020 2:40:00 PM

In the Market for a Private Jet? Bonus Depreciation, a Boon to Equipment Purchasers

By Womble Bond Dickinson

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) became effective as of January 1, 2018. Among its many modifications of the Internal...

3/27/2020 2:22:00 PM

Taking Control in Uncertain Times – Transfer Tax Planning in the Eye of the Hurricane

By Womble Bond Dickinson

The COVID-19 virus, or Coronavirus, has thrown the world in to a tailspin. Businesses have closed their doors, once crowded streets are...

3/26/2020 9:26:00 PM

Socializing with Customers in a Social-Distancing World

By Womble Bond Dickinson

As many businesses are temporarily shutting down and closing their front doors, companies are forced to reevaluate how they are...

3/26/2020 6:00:00 PM

HIPAA-Permitted Disclosures on the Frontlines

By Tara N. Cho Nadia Aram

Over the last several weeks, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) within the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the agency...

3/26/2020 2:43:00 PM

Maine Event: ISP Privacy Law Challenged on Free Speech Grounds

By Womble Bond Dickinson

A privacy bill was signed into law in Maine last year and is set to go into effect in July. That is—unless a group of ISP trade...

3/26/2020 2:39:23 PM

Minority Shareholders Might Just Owe Fellow Shareholders A Fiduciary Duty

By Phil Mohr

3/25/2020 9:07:00 PM

Department Of Labor Issues Guidance for Emergency Paid Sick Leave and Emergency FMLA

By Beth Tyner Jones

As employers scramble to understand how to apply the Emergency Paid Sick Leave and the Emergency FMLA provisions of the Family First...

3/24/2020 7:26:00 PM

Billing in Compliance with Recent Telehealth Waivers

By Womble Bond Dickinson

On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization ("WHO") declared the 2019 Novel Coronavirus ("2019-nCoV") disease outbreak a public...

3/24/2020 4:04:00 PM

Tackling Unconscious Bias

By Mark Henriques

Ron Peppe, General Counsel and VP of Human Resources with Canam Steel joins Mark Henriques and Womble UK Partner Tracy Walsh to discuss...

3/24/2020 11:52:00 AM

Data Privacy Risks and COVID-19 Defense

By Ted Claypoole

Electronic technology is protecting us from COVID-19, but is it violating our privacy?Individuals and institutions are taking drastic...

3/23/2020 8:57:00 PM

Shelter In Place Orders: Are You an “Essential Business”?

By Gregory Chabon Christopher Jones Ripley Rand +1 more...

As more state and local governments weigh “shelter in place” orders in an effort to combat the spread of COVID-19, many businesses across...