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Investment Plan for Europe – A Status Update (program at the EU Delegation to the United Nations)

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On September 22, 2017, the EU Delegation to the United Nations hosted Investment Plan for Europe – A Status Update, a program sponsored by the European American Chamber of Commerce, EACC. Speakers included Joao Vale de Almeida, Head of Delegation, EU Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambroise Fayolle, Vice President, European Investment Bank, Luca Lazzaroli, Director General & Deputy Head of Operations. European Investment Bank, EIB, Jan Ståhlberg, Vice Chairman, EQT Partners AB, Philippe Read more [...]

Federal Court vacates DHS’s “Delay Rule” on immigration parole status for certain entrepreneurs

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On December 1, 2017, a D.C. District Court vacated the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to delay the implementation of an Obama-era immigration rule, the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), 82 Fed. Reg. 5,238 (Jan. 17, 2017). In order to increase and enhance entrepreneurship, innovation, and job creation in the United States, the IER would have allowed certain foreign entrepreneurs to obtain immigration “parole” — that is, to temporarily enter the United States despite Read more [...]

Class action filed against Uber for failing to protect users’ personal information

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On October 22, 2017, a Portland resident filed a lawsuit before the Portland District Court seeking class-action status against Uber over a 2016 data breach. According to the complaint, Uber announced for the first time in November 2017 a data breach that occurred in late 2016 and that compromised the personal information of 57 million Uber users. Rather than promptly notifying the public of its breach as Oregon law required, Uber instead allegedly attempted to pay its hackers $100,000 in hopes Read more [...]

Lawyer may advertise through text, NC Ethics Opinion states

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
North Carolina State Bar 2017 Formal Ethics Opinion 1   April 21, 2017 Topic: text message advertising The Opinion clarifies that lawyers may use the text message advertising that allows the user to initiate a live telephone communication, provided it complies with North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3, and all applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations. By way of background, 2017 Formal Ethic Opinion 1 opines on whether a lawyer may advertise Read more [...]

Digital Single Market: unjustified geoblocking to end by the end of 2018

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On November 20, 2017, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission committed to end all geoblocking that unnecessarily impedes consumers to buy products or services online within the EU. The EU digital single market should “give consumers the same possibility to access the widest range of offers regardless of whether they physically enter a shop in another country or whether they shop online.” No justification for different treatments among customers from different EU Member Read more [...]