Articles and Presentations

Corporate Transparency Act

Virginia businesses’ non-compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act or Virginia law wage protections can lead to substantial liability. Moreover, misclassifying workers as independent contractors when they should properly be classified as employees can lead to equally grave consequences. A recent local settlement highlights the risk to businesses.

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Final rule under Fair Labor Standards Act on Employee/Independent Contractor Classification Takes Effect

Virginia businesses’ non-compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act or Virginia law wage protections can lead to substantial liability. Moreover, misclassifying workers as independent contractors when they should properly be classified as employees can lead to equally grave consequences. A recent local settlement highlights the risk to businesses.

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Fair Labor Standards Act, Wage Theft, and Misclassification

Virginia businesses’ non-compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act or Virginia law wage protections can lead to substantial liability. Moreover, misclassifying workers as independent contractors when they should properly be classified as employees can lead to equally grave consequences. A recent local settlement highlights the risk to businesses.

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Lying Eyes:  Deepfakes, Rules of Evidence, and Disinformation

“Who are you going to believe…Me?  Or your lying eyes?”Richard Pryor, Live on the Sunset Strip               As a lawyer working with innovative and disruptive technology for about 10 years, I have been increasingly concerned with the role disinformation, particularly AI-enabled “deepfakes” could play in corrupting the reliability of evidence on which decision are made.  […]

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New SEC enforcement action against Solar Winds and its CISO

Earlier this month, Crenshaw Ware & Martin authored a post about the new SEC rule on cybersecurity as a business risk for publicly traded companies, mandating certain disclosures to investors to permit accurate and representative risk evaluations.  Yesterday, the SEC doubled down on signaling the importance of factoring cybersecurity risk into general corporate risk profiles […]

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Securities and Exchange Commission Final Rule on Cybersecurity

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently published a final rule, effective September 5, 2023, applicable to publicly traded companies on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure.

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The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act

Consumer data protection has been a hot-button issue and states have only begun to develop legislation on how to ensure data protection without creating an unwieldly enforcement regime. Virginia was the second state (behind California) to enact a data protection statute and it is about to go into effect.

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Cybersecurity and the Workforce:  Strengthening Weak Links

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Crenshaw, Ware and Martin PLC attorney Butch Bracknell and Layer9IT Founder and CEO Troy McCollum collaborated with some thoughts on cybersecurity and developing company workforces.

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Decision could change how contractors sue VDOT

W. Ryan Snow, Chair of CWM’s Construction Law practice group, keeps the firm on the cutting edge of issues important to contractors in Virginia. Snow is was recently quoted in the VBA Journal on a cutting edge construction law case involving VDOT and a local contractor.

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Op-ed: Clear Evidence for Regional High Speed Connectivity by Darius K. Davenport, Esq.

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy practice group chair, Darius Davenport recently wrote an op-ed for Boulevard Magazine where he highlights the need for regional high speed connectivity. Read more here.

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