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  Pursuing Wellness: Steps Toward A Supportive Firm Culture

  

  As an early advocate of the American Bar Association's year-old well-being pledge, we launched an integrated program to create and sustain a supportive workplace culture with initiatives focused on raising mental health awareness, embracing creativity and giving back to the community, says Casey Ryan at Reed Smith.

• Drafting Successful Anti-SLAPP Motions In California

  

  California state appeals courts are split on the proper test to apply when analyzing a motion to resolve a strategic lawsuit against public participation, but movants may be able to influence the test a court will apply, say attorneys at Skadden.

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  Pursuing Wellness: Mental Health Education As A Firm Priority

  

  Our firm drives a holistic concept of well-being through educational opportunities, such as a series of expert-led workshops intended to address mental health and substance abuse issues that we vowed to fight when we signed the American Bar Association's well-being pledge one year ago, says Krista Logelin at Morgan Lewis.

• Proposed Cloud Tax Regs Foggy On Sourcing

  

  The U.S. Treasury Department's recently proposed regulations regarding the classification of cloud and digital content transactions for international tax purposes are sorely overdue. However, some of the proposed sourcing rules have proven to be quite controversial, say Edward Tanenbaum and Stefanie Kavanagh of Alston & Bird.

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  Pursuing Wellness: A Firm's Work With Mental Health Experts

  

  Signing the American Bar Association's well-being pledge last year was a natural progression of our firm's commitment to employee wellness, which has included developing partnerships with professionals in the mental health space to provide customized programming to firm attorneys and staff, say Annette Sciallo and Mark Goldberg at Latham.

• FTC Settlement Over COPPA Will Change YouTube's Biz Model

  

  While the $170 million fine received most of the headlines, the recent settlement of the Federal Trade Commission and New York attorney general with Google and YouTube includes provisions that ultimately could expose content creators and channel owners to liability under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, says Allison Fitzpatrick of Davis & Gilbert.

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  Pursuing Wellness: When A Firm Brings Counseling On Site

  

  One year ago, our firm signed the American Bar Association's well-being pledge and embraced a commitment to providing on-site behavioral health resources, which has since become a key aspect of our well-being program, say Meg Meserole and Kimberly Merkel at Akin Gump.

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  Pursuing Wellness: Inside A Firm Meditation Program

  

  After our firm signed the American Bar Association’s well-being pledge one year ago, we launched two key programs that included weekly meditation sessions and monthly on-site chair massages to help people address both the mental and physical aspects of working at a law firm, says Marci Eisenstein at Schiff Hardin.

• NY Tax Minutes: City Finances, Transparency, Tribunal Rulings

  

  In their recap of New York's recent tax highlights, Timothy Noonan and Craig Reilly of Hodgson Russ discuss the New York City financial plan through 2023, the new industrial development agency transparency requirement and three notable Tax Appeals Tribunal decisions.

• FCC Rural Health Developments Shift Focus To Functionality

  

  The Federal Communications Commission's proposed plans to modernize and fund its rural health care programs represent a new approach prioritizing patients' nuanced needs, rather than focusing on the rurality of health care providers, says Danielle Frappier of Davis Wright.

• Early Sampling Of Electronic Info Is Underutilized In Discovery

  

  The early and prompt provision of samples from all electronically stored information sources as a part of ESI protocol search methodology is consistent with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and may allow for significant cost savings during discovery, says Zachary Caplan at Berger Montague.

• How Amendments Changed The Calif. Consumer Privacy Act

  

  Friday was the final day to pass amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act, and the most notable changes for businesses are addition of limited exemptions for the personal information of employees and business-to-business contacts as well as changes to the definition of personal information, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

• TM Rights Vs. Free Speech In Humvee Call Of Duty Case

  

  The New York federal court case AM General v. Activision, involving use of the trademarked "Humvee" vehicle in a First-Amendment-protected video game, is set to have wide-ranging legal, creative and brand implications across a host of industries, says David Jacoby of Culhane Meadows.

• The Factors Courts Consider In Deposition Location Disputes

  

  In the absence of a federal rule governing deposition location, federal courts are frequently called on to resolve objections to out-of-state deposition notices. Recent decisions reveal what information is crucial to courts in making the determination, says Kevin O’Brien at Porter Wright.

• What To Consider Before Filing For A Rule 57 Speedy Hearing

  

  Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 57 and its state counterparts provide a method for expediting claims for declaratory judgment that warrants closer attention than it has historically received from litigants and courts, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.