Men’s fashion has evolved over the years to incorporate more styles and fashion forward items. Other men’s-only retailers offer customers the option of designing their own custom dress shirts, providing choices of size, pattern, collar type, buttons, cuff link style, monogram options, and other features. The custom tailored concept is very popular among men, young and old, and it is now being introduced in online shopping to make it more convenient for men to custom design their shirts without even going to retailers. While the industry often focuses on women’s designers and luxury fashion houses when examining marketing and advertising initiatives, the world of men’s fashion cannot be ignored.
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May 16, 2013
Spring Fashion Series Part 2: Men’s Fashion
May 16, 2013
Mobile Privacy & the FTC Act: Advice for Health Technology Companies
In the healthcare industry we often associate information privacy and security enforcement with HIPAA and state privacy laws. However, a lesser known but in some cases just as significant regulator of information privacy is the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). This is especially true with regard to mobile health applications, which depending on how they function and collect personal information, may not be regulated by HIPAA. Regardless of whether or not you have to comply with HIPAA, if you run applications or software that can access personal information, then the FTC’s privacy requirements should also be on your radar.
May 16, 2013
Linda Štrause on promissory notes, "Dienas Bizness"
In the article “Electronics could revive promissory notes” published in the 15 April 2013 special section “Legal Services” of the business newspaper “Dienas Bizness”, Linda Štrause, Partner and Head of Baltic Corporate and Commercial Practice Group, expresses her opinion on promissory notes after the recent amendments to the Promissory note Act accepted by Saeima.
May 16, 2013
Linda Štrause on promissory notes,
In the article “Electronics could revive promissory notes” published in the 15 April 2013 special section “Legal Services” of the business newspaper “Dienas Bizness”, Linda Štrause, Partner and Head of Baltic Corporate and Commercial Practice Group, expresses her opinion on promissory notes after the recent amendments to the Promissory note Act accepted by Saeima.
May 16, 2013
Texas Adopts Uniform Trade Secrets Act; New York, Massachusetts and North Carolina Remain Lone Holdouts
On May 2, 2013, the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) was signed into law by Governor Rick Perry. The new law becomes effective on September 1, 2013. Nearly every state in the United States now has adopted some variation of the model Uniform Trade Secrets Act; only New York, Massachusetts and North Carolina have not.
The UTSA includes statutory definitions for terms such as trade secrets, misappropriation, and wrongful means, and provides several potential remedies for wrongs committed under the act, including injunctive relief, damages and attorneys’ fees.
May 16, 2013
Vulnerable road users need greater protection
As UN Global Road Safety week puts worldwide pedestrian safety under the spotlight, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) is asking the UK government and car makers to make pedestrian friendly car fronts a top priority.
It claims that the government should be taking the lead in lobbying the European Commission and car makers to make radical changes so that vulnerable road users can get the same five star protection as those sitting in the vehicle.
Since 2006, car occupant’s deaths and serious injuries have fallen by 35% but for pedestrians the fall is just 16%, while cyclist deaths and serious injuries have increased by 31%.
May 15, 2013
Multistate Tax Update — May 16, 2013
Kansas Governor Brownback has signed S.B. 83 into law, which, among other things, imposes the obligation to collect and remit sales tax upon out-of-state retailers (“remote sellers”) who satisfy the underlying click-through nexus or other activity nexus presumptions.
“Click-through” nexus
S.B. 83 expands the definition of doing business in Kansas for sales tax purposes to an expansive set of activities, including click-through arrangements. Click-through arrangements are agreements between a remote seller and a Kansas resident where such resident places links on its website that when clicked, directs a user to the respective remote seller’s website. The Kansas resident is then compensated for providing this service. The new Kansas law goes further by including arrangements that refer customers to the remote seller via telemarketing, by in-person oral presentations, or other methods. In such arrangements, the remote seller compensates the Kansas resident for such services. Remote sellers engaging in any of these arrangements are presumed to have nexus and are required to collect and remit sales taxes. In order to be required to collect and remit sales taxes, the arrangement must yield sales with Kansas residents in excess of $10,000 during the previous 12 month period.
May 15, 2013
Is Friendship a bar to Trusteeship?
In a recent BC Supreme Court case, Re Newton Trust, 2013 BCSC 799, the court addressed the issue of appointing a third trustee to fill a vacancy left by the death of a former trustee (Mr. Mayson), where the two remaining trustees disagreed as to who should fill the vacancy. One of the remaining trustees (Ms. Cohen) sought to have Mr. Woodward appointed as trustee; however, the other remaining trustee (Mr. MacKenzie) sought to have a judicial trustee appointed. He argued that Mr. Woodward lacked independence due to his friendship with Ms. Cohen. Mr. MacKenzie alleged that Ms. Cohen had demonstrated a strong will and effort to control the trust, requiring that the new trustee be completely independent of her.
May 15, 2013
Andra Rubene on the legal services market driven by competition for clients and legal professionals
In the article “Legal services market is driven by competition for clients and legal professionals” published in the 15 April 2013 special section “Legal Services” of the business newspaper “Dienas Bizness”, Andra Rubene, Partner and Head of M&A Practice Group in Latvia, expresses an opinion that a progressive 21st century law office shall be easily accessible to the client, able to react promptly, speak in the language understandable to the customer, offer practical solutions for competitive price and result oriented. Whereas, attorneys and lawyers working in a modern 21st century law office shall have not only good theoretical knowledge in order to be able to interpret the law applicable to complex situations and offer solutions, but also ability to publicly represent the interests of the client.
May 15, 2013
Redundancy fears greater in public sector
Over three quarters (76%) of private sector workers say that they are confident in their job security compared with under three quarters (73%) of those working in the public sector, according to the latest findings of Legal & General’s Job Security Index.
With job losses in the public sector expected to rise in the run up to the next general election, this finding is maybe not that surprising. However, the Job Security Index also shows that a higher number of public sector workers admit they are currently at risk of redundancy (6%) compared to only 4% of private sector workers. Almost a quarter (24%) of public sector workers are not currently actively trying to secure a pay rise or promotion in the next three months, compared to less than one in five (19%) of private sector workers.
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