Posts by John Lande

John Lande primarily represents financial institutions, privately held businesses, and municipal utilities. He has experience dealing with a variety of legal topics including creditors’ rights in bankruptcy, business torts, agency regulatory actions, municipal law, contract disputes, and business dissolutions. John has represented clients in numerous hearings and trials in Iowa district court, federal court, and appeals to the Iowa Court of Appeals, Iowa Supreme Court, and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

John advises financial institutions on a variety of topics including cybersecurity, internal/criminal investigations, check and wire fraud, insider transactions, collections, examinations, and enforcement actions. His focus is on helping banks implement best practices to avoid litigation and disputes in the future. John has appeared at hearings before the Iowa Division of Banking, FDIC, and Federal Reserve in Iowa and Washington D.C.

John also serves as general counsel to municipal utilities. He advises utilities on governance, open record and meetings laws, rates, public bidding, and any other legal issues they may confront.

John is chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity, Data Breach, & Privacy practice group. He regularly contributes to the firm’s Cybersecurity Law and Banking Law Blogs.

Posted on 06/02/2016 at 08:50 AM by John Lande

Feed supplier liens have priority over bank liens

Last Friday the Iowa Supreme Court brought greater clarity to lien law for credit extended to farmers. The dispute in Oy...

Posted on 05/31/2016 at 01:25 PM by John Lande

California Setting the Cybersecurity Standard

California has been a leader on developing cybersecurity standards for businesses. California was the first state to imp...

Posted on 05/27/2016 at 01:22 PM by John Lande

The Losses Keep Coming

This blog has previously covered instances of corporate account takeover that have resulted in litigation between accoun...

Posted on 03/08/2016 at 04:10 PM by John Lande

Phishing for information

This blog has repeatedly covered risks posed to financial institutions and other organizations by cyber-attacks. Verizon...

Posted on 04/26/2016 at 12:38 PM by John Lande

FBI is chasing ghosts: Email ghosting is on the rise

In a news release earlier this month, the FBI warned consumers and businesses about the growing threat posed by business...