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The latest updates from Keesal, Young & Logan.
KYL Partners with the Long Beach Branch NAACP for its 17th Annual Law Day
Keesal, Young & Logan (KYL) is proud to continue its long run of partnering with the Long Beach Branch NAACP in hosting and presenting the 17th annual Law Day Celebration. KYL has sponsored the event since 2001. Law Day was created in the late 1950s by the...
Maritime Alert: California Issues New Civil Penalty Regulations For Ballast Water Management Violations
California State Lands Commission Announces New Regulations For Enforcement Of California’s Ballast Water Management Regulations On April 19, 2017, the California State Lands Commission (“SLC”) enlisted the assistance of local vessel California State Lands Commission...
Cybersecurity in Discovery Webinar April 25
The integrity of the discovery process is an important part of litigation and regulatory investigations. In fact, settlement results can be influenced by ineffective discovery practices. Information subject to discovery is a potential gold mine, susceptible to data...
Keesal, Young & Logan Partners with Privva for EDRM Security Assessment
Keesal, Young & Logan (“KYL”) and Privva, Inc. (“Privva”) have successfully implemented EDRM’s new Security Audit Questionnaire to complete the security assessment of KYL’s third-party eDiscovery providers. By capitalizing on Privva’s automated security assessment...
Securities Alert: FINRA Adopts New Rules to Combat Financial Exploitation
SEC Approves FINRA Rules to Assist Member Firm’s in Combatting the Financial Exploitation of Senior and Other Specified Adults On March 30, 2017, the SEC approved FINRA Rule 2165 (Financial Exploitation of Specified Adults) which permits FINRA Member Firms to place...
Sea Venture Article – SOMETHING IN THE AIR: A Shipowner’s guide to navigating California’s low-sulfur fuel use regulations.
by David Tong CALIFORNIA’S CONTINUED REGULATION OF LOW-SULFUR USE: HOW DID WE GET HERE? The United States has ratified MARPOL, including Annex VI’s low-sulfur use require¬ments for vessels. Congress has implemented MARPOL as federal law. Annex VI is codified in...
Maritime Alert: Punitive Damages Available in Seaman’s Injury Claim
Washington State Supreme Court Rules Punitive Damages are Available in Seamen’s General Maritime Law Claim for Unseaworthiness In a unanimous ruling today, the Washington State Supreme Court held that seamen may recover punitive damages in an unseaworthiness claim...
March 15 Seminar: "Cyber Risk, Regulation and Insurance – The Business End"
Virtually every aspect of today’s business and legal world is enabled or facilitated by technology. Every minute of every day, a company’s most valuable and sensitive commercial information, and that of its clients and customers is held on or passes through multiple...
Mortgage Banking Litigation Alert – Court of Appeal’s Thorough Opinion Stops Borrowers’ Claims at Every Turn
California’s Third District Court of Appeal just published a decision that is best described as a lender-friendly primer on the documentary aspects of the state’s statutory non-judicial foreclosure process. Though not making any novel holdings, the panel in Kalnoki...
Untangling the Mystery of Cybersecurity Insurance
This article originally appeared in Cybersecurity Law & Strategy. IT security professionals used to warn that only two types of businesses exist: those that have been hacked, and those that will. Now, many are even more pessimistic and divide the world’s...
Maritime Alert: USCG Clarifies Cyber Incident Reporting Requirements
The U.S. Coast Guard recently published CG-5P Policy Letter 08-16: “Reporting Suspicious Activity and Breaches of Security” (the “Policy Letter”). The Policy Letter clarifies what type of cybersecurity events constitute suspicious activity (“SA”) and a breach of...
KYL’s Peter Boutin Elected President of the Federal Bar Association’s Northern District of California Chapter
Peter Boutin of Keesal, Young & Logan's San Francisco office has been elected President of the Federal Bar Association's Northern District of California Chapter for the 2017 term. Other officers elected include Michelle Roberts Bartolic as President-Elect and the...
Maritime Alert: USCG Type-Approves Alfa Laval’s And Oceansaver’s Ballast Water Management Systems
The IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention requires the installation of a ballast water management system (“BWMS”) meeting the IMO’s standards by the date of a vessel’s first renewal of its IOPP certificate after September 8, 2017. On the other hand, for most...
Breaking News: New York Releases Updated Proposed Cybersecurity Regulation
Minimum standards proposed in September have been updated to provide more wiggle room for banks, financial institutions and insurance companies operating in New York. Reposted with permission from Cybersecurity Law & Strategy. On December 28, the New York State...
Employment Alert: Breaking News Regarding California Rest Breaks
On December 22, 2016, the California Supreme Court issued an opinion ruling that California law prohibits “on call” rest periods. Augustus v. ABM Security Services, a class action involving security guards who claimed they were required to be on call during their rest...
Employment Alert: Los Angeles Enacts “Ban the Box” Ordinance
On December 9, 2016, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (the “Ordinance”), which imposes a number of restrictions on employers’ pre-employment screening practice. Notably, the Ordinance prohibits Los Angeles...
Securities Alert: Family Matters: Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split on Tippee Liability for Insider Trading
Earlier this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a conviction for insider trading and resolved a split between the Second and Ninth Circuits regarding tippee liability. In Salman v. United States, the Supreme Court analyzed the flow of non-public information...
Maritime Alert: USCG Type-Approves Optimarin’s Ballast Water Management System
The IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention requires the installation of a ballast water management system (“BWMS”) meeting the IMO’s standards by the date of a vessel’s first renewal of its IOPP certificate after September 8, 2017. On the other hand, for most...
KYL CIO/CISO Invited to Chair Legal CIO Forum for Second Year in a Row
Keesal, Young & Logan's Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Justin Hectus, was asked to chair Legal Week's LegalCIO conference (February 1-2, 2017) for the second time. The forum, which is being held in Midtown Manhattan, "combines...
Securities Alert: SEC Case is Rare Example of Sanctions Against Federal Agency
Courts rarely impose sanctions against government agencies. However, a federal judge recently imposed over $10,000 in sanctions against the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under FRCP Rule 45 because (1) he found an SEC subpoena “blatantly overbroad,” and...
Employment Alert: New Year Brings New California
The New Year is almost here, which means changes to California’s employment laws and, consequently, to the way our state’s employers operate their day-to-day business. Below, we summarize six laws that take effect in 2017 and one that goes into effect in 2018. Please...
Employment Alert: Not So Fast DOL, Says Texas Judge — New Overtime Rules Enjoined
Earlier this year, the Department of Labor issued its Final Overtime Expansion Rule. The Final Rule purported to amend, among other things, the Fair Labor Standard Act’s “white collar” exemption by raising the salary threshold to $47,476, effective December 1, 2016. ...
Employment Alert: The Impact of California Voters’ Approval of Prop 64 on Workplace Drug Policies
As many expected, on November 8, 2016, California voters approved Proposition 64, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (the “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” or “Act”), legalizing recreational marijuana use. In a nutshell, the Act legalizes and taxes...
"Ripple Effects of Cybersecurity Regulations" MCLE Hosted by KYL SF Office
Keesal, Young & Logan is proud to host this one hour CLE session covering the practical implications of the New York State Department of Financial Services' "first in the nation" Cybersecurity Regulation, scheduled to go into effect on January 1. The DFS...