A Conversation with Jon Smollen, Temple Law Practice Professor and Director, Temple Center for Compliance and Ethics

This is the first in what we hope will become a regular series of interviews with members of the Temple business law community about their work, the business law community, and business law practice generally.  Jon Smollen directs Temple’s Center for Compliance and Ethics (CCE), and recently sat down with The 10-Q’s editors to talk

SEC Ratchets Up Enforcement Against Attorneys in Microcap Space

Introduction Earlier this year, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton fired a warning shot across the bow of practicing securities attorneys: “act responsibly and hold [yourselves] to high standards.” Chairman Clayton specifically called out members of the securities bar advising clients on initial coin offerings (ICOs) that were not being registered with the SEC under the federal

2016 HIPAA Settlements Demonstrate HIPAA Compliance Challenges in a Mobile Society

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has been actively enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) in 2016. As of August, covered entities and business associates (the organizations who are subject to HIPAA) have paid OCR more than $20 million to resolve allegations of