One of our clients, a grocery store chain, experienced an attack on its point of sale system that resulted in a theft of customer payment card information. Our team worked with the client from the moment the breach was discovered to investigate the...
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Our client, a vendor for the State of Wisconsin, was involved in the
inadvertent disclosure of the Social Security numbers of more than
700,000 Wisconsin taxpayers. Our team worked with the client during
the highly publicized incident to...
Our team assisted a large health care system
with a security incident involving malware
attacking its computer systems. We helped
the client obtain outside experts for its
investigation using our contacts in the
industry and developed a...
The federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
investigates possible HIPAA violations.
In 2015, a health care client received an OCR
investigation request regarding a patient
complaint. We assisted the client by
reviewing the alleged incident, the...
Our attorneys have assisted hundreds of clients with HIPAA privacy
and security matters. We maintain model policies and procedures
and related forms, such as business associate agreements. We have
also trained clients on these rules. For example,...
Our team advised a Midwestern dairy
cooperative in connection with the
development and implementation of its
“Bring Your Own Device” technology
policy and with implementation of a
data retention and destruction program.
Our team assisted a client purchasing a business with U.S. and overseas
locations with the handling of employee data transfers and with a
transition services agreement through which data would be processed.
Our team assisted in the development
of several health information exchanges
for integrated delivery systems and
affiliated providers. We performed an
analysis of federal and state privacy laws
to determine the use and disclosure
restrictions...
Our team guided a client establishing U.S. and European e-commerce
websites by preparing the necessary privacy policy, terms of use, and
terms of sale.
Our client, the owner of a downtown office tower with a glass curtain wall system had significant leakage problems throughout the building. The curtain wall contractor was applying band-aid solutions that were not working. The tenants (in a...
A national bank needed help addressing a Borrower default involving tens of millions of dollars involving multiple, cross-collateralized properties. In addition, it was anticipated that the U.S. government was likely going to assert numerous lien...
We represented a bank who, after being advised of the Wisconsin Appellate Court decision in Palisades, was concerned as to whether or not there was a clear path in Wisconsin to admitting a bank's business records into evidence such that judgment...
On behalf of the industry leader in small - and medium - class space and rocket systems, Rick negotiated the agreement for the development and transfer of rights of the company's Transfer Orbit Stage rocket.
Rick negotiated the commercial sponsorship agreements for the opening of the John G. Shedd oceanarium in Chicago.
Rick has negotiated licenses for such works as the Littlest Angel, the Home Alone motion pictures, New York Times best sellers, the works of L. Frank Baum and The Black Stallion. Rick has represented both authors and publishers in negotiating...
We represented the bankruptcy trustee in the bankruptcy of a leading developer of nano-technology, managing the sizable portfolio of intellectual property assets through the bankruptcy and positioning the portfolio for sale.
Quarles & Brady does not work only for large clients. We also
represent small businesses, often belonging to individuals and families. For
example, we recently helped a multi-generational family-owned business to
negotiate and execute on...
On behalf of a leading hardware manufacturer, the Quarles & Brady trademark team negotiated an exclusive sales agreement with a major big box retailer. The deal leveraged our client’s significant brand strength in its product category into...
We obtained a receiver over, and handled the trustee’s sale of, the InterContinental Montelucia Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona, a 34-acre resort featuring 253 guest rooms, 40 suites, five pools, 27,000 square feet of meeting space, two...
We successfully represented a major defense contractor in early contract extension negotiations tied to a major effort to win additional work for the employer’s unionized facility in Wisconsin. We developed a strategy to persuade the union to...
We assisted a major Milwaukee-area manufacturer in negotiating significant changes to its labor agreement with the United Automobile Workers. These involved streamlining leave procedures, reducing overtime costs, and eliminating retiree...
Just as the economy collapsed in 2008, Rick negotiated an exclusive big box retailer agreement for a consumer product manufacturer that significantly expanded its shelf space and grew its business while its competitors' businesses...
Obtaining summary judgment and successfully arguing on appeal the first disability discrimination case in the 11th Circuit involving an HIV-positive health care worker—establishing a pro-employer test for future cases. The plaintiff was...
Quarles & Brady obtained an emergency injunction restricting a former sales manager of a major international consumer products company from using or disclosing confidential information and trade secrets, and compelling production of all computer...
Compelling arbitration and obtaining the summary dismissal, later upheld on appeal, of wrongful discharge claims by a former manager at a national insurance company who was terminated after what he contended was a shoddy investigation into workplace...
Quarles & Brady prevented the imposition of injunctive relief in a case brought by two terminated engineers who claimed that their former employer, an experimental biotechnology company, had falsified data and submissions to regulatory...
Quarles & Brady obtained dismissal of wrongful discharge claims brought against a national nursing home operator by a nurse who claimed that she was terminated after threatening to inform authorities of what she believed to have been the...
This was a collective action brought by a former server who worked at a large restaurant. She brought minimum wage and overtime claims against the restaurant and its owners based on allegations that servers were not paid overtime for hours worked...
On behalf of a California-based, international wealth-management firm—whose client list includes several high-net-worth individuals—we quickly obtained a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop one of its Arizona-based former...
When our client, a provider of medical-claim and quality-care software and services, hired a new employee, she filed a lawsuit to have the restrictive covenant with the former employer declared unenforceable. The former employer subsequently filed...
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