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Uber has had a tough past couple of weeks. First, Waymo, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, filed suit claiming that Uber used Google’s self-driving car technology, which had been stolen by one of its former employees. Then, this past...

Recently, a jury in Dallas, Texas ordered Facebook Inc.’s subsidiary Oculus, and other related defendants, to pay $500 million to ZeniMax Media, Inc. (the company that owns video game franchises, such as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout). ZeniMax sued Facebook and Oculus,...

At Sparks Law, we believe that every business should be able to afford quality legal services. With that in mind, we created the Corporate Counsel Initiative. Business owners know that different legal issues come up every day, and there can...

A Non-Disparagement (or Protection of Reputation clause) prohibits individuals from taking any action that negatively impacts an organization, its reputation, products, services, management or employees. They are typically found in settlement agreements and many executive-level employment agreements. A recent case involving non-disparagement clauses is...

Bengt Holmström of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University’s Oliver Hart won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics for contributions in the development of contract theory. Contract theory helps in understanding agreements like insurance contracts, employer-employee relationships and property...

Fitness “wearables,” such as Fitbit, as well as health monitoring websites and mobile applications, have become immensely popular.  As a result, personal health information, which had previously fallen under the privacy and security restrictions of HIPAA for the most part,...

On May 18, 2016, President Obama announced the publication of the Department of Labor’s Final Rule, which includes a colossal update to overtime regulations contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  The rule is projected to extend overtime pay...

As you may be aware, social media and the press are all abuzz about the secret recording of Taylor Swift by Kanye West, during a phone call, made without her consent or knowledge.  Questions were raised about whether Kanye had...

We talk a lot about being an “in-house counsel team,” “general counsel,” and “attorney on-call” but have yet to really explain what this means. To be honest, the whole idea of a general counsel attorney for a business was foreign...