It is, by now, well known that not taking data protection seriously can prove costly for organizations. Since the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") in 2018, ...

IPO companies are sued more frequently than mature public companies for many reasons. In this week’s D&O Notebook, my colleague Walker Newell focuses on why “registration statement” or Section 11 ...

Comment k was intended to be a narrow exception to strict liability and only applied in cases where an otherwise useful product is "incapable of being made safe." On May 27, the Legal Intelligencer ...

April 28, 2025 - Companies that raise capital through public offerings of stock, such as in an IPO, have historically faced a heightened risk of being sued in securities class actions when their stock ...

Conservative advocacy group Right on Crime urged lawmakers to reform the “criminal mental state” requirement in federal criminal codes in a report published on Thursday. The report also criticized the ...

Comment in the inbox: information in the Legal Matters column published May 9 was, “factually not accurate in how Maryland law treats dog bite cases.” The reader identified himself as an attorney who ...