Understanding Powers of Attorney to Protect Seniors
Americans don’t like to talk about money. But when a serious and sudden health event takes place, powers of attorney are a critical step to help families prepare for potential caregiving needs.
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A Ghoulish Legal Question: Can You Sue a Dead Person?
On Halloween, ghosts and goblins parade the streets and doorsteps of our neighborhoods, and the boundaries between the corporeal and spiritual worlds are temporarily blurred. Recently, the Ninth Circuit resurrected a century-old question: Can you sue a dead person?
Bonus Podcast: Key Banking-Related Cases Before the Supreme Court
October brings a new Supreme Court term, but October 2020 has not brought only a new term but also a new justice, the third new justice to join the high court in less than four years.
Trouble on the Farm?
Four alternatives for banks managing distressed agricultural loans.
Is Banking on Lawyers a Formula for Success?
Lawyers now occupy seats on three-quarters of U.S. bank boards, and new evidence suggests their rapid rise is linked to improved risk management and increases in bank valuation.
Podcast: Prodding Class Action Attorneys to Deliver More for Consumers
In recent years, high-profile class action settlements have been criticized for delivering little to no monetary relief to plaintiffs, instead, providing coupons, injunctive relief or “cy pres” relief in which the defendant makes charitable donations, while making large fee awards to attorneys.
ABA, Trades Urge Supreme Court to Ensure Banks Can Call Customers
The American Bankers Association joined a coalition of trade associations today in filing a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to interpret the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to ensure that customers can receive important communications from their banks and other companies with whom they do business.
DOJ: Financial Institutions ‘Strong Partners’ in Detecting, Reporting PPP Fraud
Banks and other financial institutions have been “strong partners” in assisting the Department of Justice and law enforcement detect and investigate potential fraud connected to the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt noted in a press conference today.
HUD Finalizes Rule to Align ‘Disparate Impact’ Rule with Court Ruling
The Department of Housing and Urban Development today finalized its revised standard for bringing “disparate impact” claims under the Fair Housing Act.
Understanding the Law Helps Banks Stay Ethical
When can entire organizations be held liable for the actions of a single employee? Aligning your compliance program with federal guidelines will help protect your customers, shareholders and employees and will strengthen your overall compliance program for years to come.