“The American Dream is alive, but fraying.” This is a quote from Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase and Chairman of the Business Roundtable. Dimon is one of 181 CEOs that signed a Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation in August 2019. The new statement pledges to rescue the American Dream with […]
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The company will use the financing to amplify efforts to support access to legal services across Europe. On Wednesday (4 September), Canadian legal technology company Clio announced that it has closed a $250m (USD) funding round. The company, which has EMEA headquarters located in Dublin 8, raised what it calls “one of the largest private
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In less than five months on January 1, 2020, a landmark consumer privacy law will go into effect in California. The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, has been likened to the GDPR and is similar to the sweeping EU law, at least in spirit. The CCPA is important because California is the world’s largest
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In our data-fueled world, we’re seeing a record-breaking number of breaches. Take, for example, Facebook’s 2018 breach of 50 million accounts. In 2019, the social media company made the news again, when 540 million user records were exposed on Amazon cloud servers. Unfortunately, data exploitation is not isolated to specific industries. For example, hackers gained
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Over time, you may decide that the business name you chose for your company no longer accurately reflects your brand. Or you might decide you would be better off legally to have a different name. Depending on the entity type, the process for changing a business name varies. It can be confusing, so let’s take
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As an entrepreneur, you spend most of your time focused on day-to-day tasks, like managing your staff, helping customers, and marketing your business. It’s easy for legal concerns to take a backseat—but that can be dangerous. Unless you take the proper steps to legally protect your business, everything you’ve worked so hard for can be
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By Tonya Fletcher Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule that would make nearly a million workers eligible to receive overtime pay. The proposed rule is for white-collar exemptions to overtime, which refers to employees with duties that primarily involve executive, administrative, or professional responsibilities as defined by the
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In the run-up to its effective date, companies invested significant amounts of time and money in an effort to comply with the GDPR, but questions have remained about the sweeping EU data protection and privacy regulation. One of the biggest: would regulators actually use their full power under the GDPR to punish businesses that are
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If you’re a content marketer or content creator in the UK, you may have heard about a controversial EU directive known as Article 17 (previously referred to as Article 13 in draft). Approved on April 15 2019, this law relates to the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. A quick Google search
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The next great form of transportation was announced in a June 4, 2019, article from the Los Angeles Times. No, it’s not another rideshare service or a variation on the Bird scooter. Nor is it a more futuristic means of travel like the Jetsons-esque flying cars. Give up? It’s a pogo stick! This summer, Swedish
