The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, one of the oldest and most revered peer review publications, recognizes 39 Becker attorneys across the Firm’s practices. Our own Joseph Adams was also recognized as Lawyer of the Year, a distinction based on the highest overall peer feedback for his specialty […]
Becker is thrilled to announce that the firm and its attorneys have been recognized in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA, a prestigious annual guide of leading law firms and attorneys. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and members of the legal community at peer firms. Chambers’ […]
Government has been amping up disclosures in business showing many avenues for which the US has recently imposed greater disclosure requirements: The Securities and Exchange Commission rules mandating disclosure for cybersecurity incidents and cybersecurity risk management; The Office of Foreign Asset Control promoting ransomware victims to disclose paying threat actors […]
Employers Prompted to Evaluate Employees’ Access to Confidential Information In November 2022, the FTC issued an updated policy statement regarding the scope of unfair methods of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act. The FTC appears to now seek preventing what it perceives to be new threats to competition. […]
In-house attorneys, who offer both business and legal advice, were looking forward to some judicial clarity on the scope of the attorney-client privilege. Instead, they’ve been left disappointed. SCOTUS decided to dismiss an appeal styled In re Grand Jury, which would have settled what standard should govern privilege in these […]
