ICKES\ HOLT would like to wish all of our clients, colleagues, friends, and social media contacts a Merry Christmas and happy and healthy holiday season. 2017 has been a challenging and rewarding year for ICKES\ HOLT. We moved into new offices, obtained new clients, made new friends, and developed new practice areas. Our vision […]
REGARDING PRIVACY OHIO SETS A HIGH BAR FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Over the last few years, agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have fostered a movement to encourage industry to implement the concept of privacy-by-design. The idea behind privacy-by-design is that when developing new software, hardware, medical-devices or other such products that extract personal information, such as personally identifiable information (PII), health care information, geo-tracking […]
Cybersecurity in America’s Dairyland
On November 7, 2016, ICKESHOLT attorneys Jim Ickes and Joel Holt journeyed to Joel’s home-state of Wisconsin to record a webinar for the National Business Institute (http://www.nbi-sems.com/Home.aspx) entitled: “Cybersecurity: the Ultimate Guide.” Suffice it to say, the name and scope of the seminar presented quite a challenge. However, while neither Jim nor Joel would willingly label […]
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Not “Too Big To Fail” Sec Administrative Proceeding
In October 2008, Morgan Stanley received a $10 billion bailout from the U.S. Government. Morgan Stanley, amongst other financial institutions, were simply “too big to fail.” In 2016, however, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) determined that one of Morgan Stanley’s subsidiaries, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (“MSSB”) was not “too big to fail” an SEC administrative […]
What’s App-Ening To Your Financial Data?
Recently, a friend asked me to pay him back for movie tickets via Venmo. For those of you born before 1985, Venmo is a mobile app owned by PayPal which allows users to “[p]ay anyone with a Venmo account instantly using money you have in Venmo, or link your bank account or debit card […]
THE ADA’s Dental Debacle
By: Joel A. Holt, Esq., CIPP/US Talk about the ever changing world of information security and data privacy. Literally, something new, interesting, or terrible occurs daily. The latest giant balloon in the “parade of horribles” is the American Dental Association (“ADA”) providing its members with a free, electronic copy of the 2016 Dental Procedure […]