June 3, 2026
INTRODUCTION The Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”)1 exists to detect and prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes.2 It authorizes the Treasury Department to impose […]
March 20, 2026
On March 16, 2026, Governor Maura Healey signed Executive Order No. 654, titled “To Secure Massachusetts’ Energy Future by Establishing an Energy Supply Plan that Drives […]
February 11, 2026
The concept of securing loans and mortgages with digital currency is not totally new. However, the State of New Hampshire’s Business Finance Authority (BFA) is taking […]
December 11, 2025
A recent Ninth Circuit decision highlights a continuing dispute among federal courts as to whether a plaintiff alleging trade secret misappropriation must disclose its trade secrets […]
October 17, 2025
Cross-Border Trade Secret Protection in the Southern Hemisphere: Latin American Countries – Part One
Trade secret protection is fast becoming a go-to means for intellectual property protection for startups and established corporations alike. Protecting IP under trade secret law has […]
August 19, 2025
On August 4, 2025, Prince Lobel filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the government transparency non-profit MuckRock Foundation. The brief […]
July 29, 2025
In our last alert on the cross-border protection of trade secrets, available here, we discussed similarities and differences between the United States’ Defend Trade Secrets Act […]
May 15, 2025
About ten years ago the United States and the European Union passed sweeping trade secret legislation meant, in part, to harmonize protections available to companies for […]
May 1, 2025
The Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston opened the floodgates to billions of dollars of investments in the use of athletes’ […]