PAYING RANSOM COULD LEAD TO FINES

Oct 12, 2020 | Cyber Law

On October 1, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued an Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments announcing that companies that “facilitate” ransom payments on behalf of ransomware victims may be...

Georgia Prepares to Resume In-Person Jury Trials

Oct 8, 2020 | COVID-19 Related Law

In response to COVID-19, the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, Justice Melton, issued a statewide judicial state of emergency in March, which suspended all in-person jury trials. Nearly 6 months have passed without jury trials, and the backlog of cases has...

FINRA BrokerCheck Expungements: Proposed Rule Changes

Oct 6, 2020 | FINRA

In August, we wrote about amendments to the FINRA Rules that made it more expensive for registered representatives to seek expungement of their Central Registration Depository (CRD) records.  Last week, in an effort to reform the expungement process even further,...