Privacy Alert: Equifax Settlement – Paying Up To $700 Million for an Entirely Preventable Breach
On Monday July 22, 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico announced a settlement with credit agency Equifax for up to $700 million for its massive data breach in...
KYL Wins Dismissal of California False Claims Act Lawsuit
The plaintiffs, private individuals suing on behalf of the State of California, alleged that multiple municipal bond underwriters defrauded the state by falsely representing that they would underwrite the state’s bonds and obtain the “best price” and “lowest yield” on...
KYL Preserves Major Win on Appeal
On behalf of a major financial institution, KYL attorneys Peter Boutin, Neal Robb and Chris Stecher prevailed on a Petition to Vacate a sizable Arbitration Award rendered by a FINRA Panel in 2017. After the case was arbitrated and the Award was issued, KYL was engaged...
KYL Washington Lawyers Honored as 2019 Rising Stars
Keesal, Young & Logan is pleased to announce that Valerie Holder and Igor Stadnik were named to the 2019 Washington Rising Stars list. The annual Super Lawyers lists, published by Thomson Reuters, are a comprehensive guide to outstanding attorneys. Attorneys from...
KYL Southern California Lawyers Honored as 2019 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
Keesal, Young & Logan is pleased to announce that Skip Keesal, Steve Young, Michael Gless, Terry Ross, Neal Robb, and Stacey Garrett were named to the 2019 Southern California Super Lawyers list, and Ryan Lean and Kristy Sambor were named to the Southern...
KYL Northern California Lawyers Honored as 2019 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
Keesal, Young & Logan is pleased to announce that Peter Boutin, John Giffin, Philip McLeod, Ben Suter, Lisa Bertain, and Julie Taylor were named to the 2019 Northern California Super Lawyers list, and Elyse Whitehead was named to the Northern California Rising...
KYL joins Shell, Gap, Ingersoll Rand and our Partner Mitratech for CLOC Co-Innovation Session
Legal Ops 2.0 – How Co-Innovation was a Hit at CLOC 2019 The Mitratech Team At this year’s CLOC Vegas Institute, we had the privilege of not only being a sponsor but also a presenter at a key session, Legal Ops 2.0: How Co-Innovation is Driving the Industry’s Future,...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dutra Group v. Batterton that a seaman may not recover punitive damages on an unseaworthiness claim, overruling the Ninth Circuit and resolving a split between the Fifth and Ninth Circuits. Plaintiff Christopher Batterton was...
KYL’s Bentley Stansbury Featured in Lawdragon Lawyer Limelight
Bentley Stansbury is a shareholder in the Long Beach office of Keesal, Young & Logan, where his practice centers on financial services litigation. Each year from 2007 to 2015, Stansbury was recognized by Law & Politics Magazine as one of Southern California’s...
Maritime Alert: Supreme Court Rules that State Wage-and-Hour Laws do not Apply to Drilling Workers off the Coast of California
On Monday, the Supreme Court held in Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Newton that state wage-and-hour laws do not apply to drilling workers off the Coast of California, overruling a Ninth Circuit decision and resolving a split between the Fifth and Ninth...
Employment Alert: U.S. Supreme Court Rules Title VII’s Charge-Filing Requirement Is Not Jurisdictional
On June 3, 2019, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that the charge-filing requirement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, requiring a complainant to first file a charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) before...
KYL’s David Piper Featured in Lawdragon Lawyer Limelight
Keesal Young & Logan shareholder David Piper, or “trail boss” as his brothers called him growing up, is a problem-solver by nature. That’s what drew him to Keesal Young. The firm is built on finding practical, business-minded solutions to client matters, and Piper...
Employment Alert: D.C. Court Rules: Large Employers Must Submit Equal Pay Data by September 30, 2019
On April 25, 2019, a United States District Judge in the District of Columbia ruled that large and mid-sized employers will have until September 30, 2019 to inform the EEOC how much they paid workers of different sexes, races and ethnicities in 2018. The Equal...
Daily Journal Article “Social media discovery: 20 commonly asked questions” by KYL’s Peter Boutin and George Croton
The outcomes in litigation increasingly turn on evidence obtained from social media, such as photos, posts or direct messages. As social media technology and privacy rights constantly evolve, so do the practices and procedures for obtaining these non-traditional forms...
KYL’s Paralegal and CEDS Jennifer Clamme Contributing Author for New TAR Guidelines
KYL eDiscovery Specialist, Jennifer Clamme, honored to serve as a contributing author of the Duke Law-EDRM Technology Assisted Review (TAR) Standards Project. As a contributing author, Jennifer, along with other legal experts and the EDRM Team, developed TAR...
KYL receives a defense award in a whistleblower retaliation claim in which the Claimant requested over $7 million
In a recent FINRA Arbitration, KYL obtained a complete defense award related to a former financial advisor’s claim for wrongful termination, whistleblower retaliation, defamation, and related claims. The former employee of our financial services client sought over $7...
KYL’s Julie Taylor Featured in Lawdragon Lawyer Limelight
Julie Taylor thrives in the “emotion-based practice” that is employment litigation, a specialty she developed after a period focused on securities litigation. Taylor represents a wide range of employers as a San Francisco-based shareholder at Keesal Young & Logan,...
Lenders and Servicers Beware – You Are at Risk of Having to Pay Attorneys’ Fees to Borrowers Who Obtain TROs to Hold Up Trustee’s Sales
Hardie v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC is a significant decision out of the Fifth District Court of Appeal holding that a plaintiff/borrower may obtain attorney’s fees under CC 2294.12(h) after prevailing at a TRO hearing. It relies heavily upon the Third District’s prior...
KYL Shareholder Julie Taylor has been invited to speak at the 2019 SIFMA Compliance and Legal Society Annual Seminar
Keesal, Young & Logan Shareholder Julie Taylor has been invited to speak at the 2019 Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Compliance and Legal Society Annual Seminar. Julie will be participating in the "Avoiding Pitfalls in the Recruitment...
Employment Alert: DOL Proposes Update to FLSA Exemptions
On Thursday, March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) unveiled a long-awaited rule proposal to update the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) “white collar” overtime exemptions. The proposed rule would increase the currently-enforced salary thresholds set in...
KYL Shareholder Lisa Bertain has been invited to speak at the 2019 SIFMA Compliance and Legal Society Annual Seminar
Keesal, Young & Logan Shareholder Lisa Bertain has been invited to speak at the 2019 Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Compliance and Legal Society Annual Seminar. Lisa will be participating in the "Litigation with Current Employees -...
KYL’s Chris Stecher Featured in Lawdragon Lawyer Limelight
Chris Stecher thrives on the rush of arguments and examinations at trial as well as the satisfaction of finding a solution before a case escalates – the paradox that he says has helped define his career at Keesal Young & Logan. The San Francisco-based shareholder,...
Securities Alert: Today’s NYDFS Deadline for Vendor Security Assessments
Third-party service providers (“vendors”) with lax security controls can pose a significant threat to a financial institution’s security, and that same risk can even cascade to the institution from their vendor’s vendor. Understanding and controlling those risks is...
Privacy Alert: SB 561 Could Turn the CCPA into Consumers’ Ultimate Weapon
On February 25, 2019, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and California State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced Senate Bill 561, legislation intended to strengthen and clarify the new California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). If passed, the bill will...