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insightWilliams Mullen will help sponsor the Virginia Equality Bar Association’s (VEBA) name and gender marker change clinics for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in 2020.
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insightLast week, Hal Johnson was quoted in an article from Virginia Lawyers Weekly about a court fight between two entities over insurance coverage that was the result of an online phishing scam. The article is only available to those that subscribe to Virginia Lawyers Weekly. If you're a subscriber and would like to learn more, click the link below: Phisherman's Blues
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insightThe SECURE Act* (the “Act”) makes significant changes to employer-sponsored retirement plans, and many of the changes take effect immediately.
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insightWilliams Mullen is pleased to announce that Sean Hicks has been named ‘Young Lawyer of the Year’ by the Bar Association of the City of Richmond.
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insightOn January 23, 2020, the State and Commerce Departments published their long-awaited final regulations on the transfer of certain firearms, ammunition, components and accessories from controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) to the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”).
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insightWilliams Mullen is pleased to announce the election of seven new partners. Kelley Holland (Litigation), Jennifer Morgan (Litigation), Cart Reilly (Real Estate), Ken Shevlin (Corporate), Ned Turnbull (Corporate), Kyle Wingfield (Tax Law) and Mark Zaruba (Corporate) were elected partners at the firm’s January board meeting.
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insightIn Futuri Real Estate, Inc. v. Atlantic Trustee Servs., LLC, borrowers Milton and Armida Cortez (the “Borrowers”) obtained three loans secured by separate deeds of trust on their residence: (A) a $415,000 deed of trust in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (the “first Wells Fargo lien”); (B) a $220,000 deed of trust in favor of SunTrust Bank (the “SunTrust lien”); and (C) a $252,007.33 deed of trust in favor of Wells Fargo (the “second Wells Fargo lien”).
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insightOn January 6, 2020 the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) within the Commerce Department adopted export licensing requirements on certain artificial intelligence software used to automate the analysis of geospatial imaging. Under the new controls an export license will be required for the export and reexport of the controlled software to all countries except Canada, effective immediately.
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insightThe Lanham Act affords numerous remedies for trademark infringement to prevailing plaintiffs, including injunctive relief, actual damages, or the defendant’s profits from the infringement. Whether a defendant intended to infringe a plaintiff’s trademark is relevant to a court’s consideration of the relief to which a plaintiff is entitled. But some courts went further holding that a defendant could be required to disgorge profits for claims under 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) only after the plaintiff has demonstrated that the defendant willfully infringed its trademark. In its April 23, 2020 opinion in Romag Fasteners, Inc. v Fossil, Inc. et al, No 18-1233, which can be found here, the Supreme Court rejected that opinion holding that a “plaintiff in a trademark infringement suit is not required to show that a defendant willfully infringed the plaintiff’s trademark as a precondition to a profits award.”
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insightOn Wednesday night, President Trump signed a presidential proclamation (the “proclamation”) that will temporarily suspend the entry of certain immigrants for an initial sixty (60) day period. This suspension will go into effect at 11:59 P.M. EDT on April 23, 2020.