It is important for all companies to have a well-written and up-to-date employee handbook. Employee handbooks inform employees of workplace policies, set expectations between employees and the [...]
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a new “Know Your Rights” poster as of October 2022, replacing the now outdated “Equal Opportunity is the Law” poster. Employers [...]
Customer lists, marketing plans, pricing structures, production processes, recipes, formulae, and more. State and federal law protects this knowledge so long as you treat it like the sensitive [...]
Rapid development and seismic changes in the utilization and distribution of Information Technology have led the AICPA Professional Ethics Executive Committee to organize a task force to review [...]
Spear Phishing, also known as “business email compromise” or BEC is rampant and the most likely method for defrauding a company. The typical scenario is an employee of a company receives an email [...]
Trademarks protect the usage of a name, phrase, logo or design that indicates the origin or source of goods or services. Brand names and signature logos are prime examples. Trademarks can often [...]
Movement to services is exploding across all business segments. One of the main motivators for this move is enhanced security as compared to on premise resources. However, cloud services come [...]
Take Care When Executing Electronically Signed Documents A favorite phishing ploy is the use of fake DocuSign or other electronic signature emails which, when you click on the link to the [...]
The Metaverse is coming. Is it the next Internet? Time will tell. But if history is a lesson for the future, it may be the wild west for IP rights in its early stages. I am sure many of you are [...]
On May 23, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., and rejected a court-created rule that benefitted defendants (typically employers), that [...]
