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 09/11/2024 at 11:29 AM by John Lande

Combatting Check Fraud

Over the last several months, banks all across Iowa have dealt with an increasing volume of fraudulent checks. The typic...

Posted on 04/25/2024 at 10:58 AM by John Lande

Bank Non-Competes are Still Okay, For Now

On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced the text of its final rule that will ban most uses of non-co...

Posted on 03/14/2023 at 04:22 PM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Business Law

What Do Businesses Need to Know About Recent Bank Failures?

The recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and Signature Bank have dominated news headlines for the last several...

Posted on 01/17/2023 at 09:57 AM by John Lande

"Blanket Ag Liens" Have Holes

This blog has previously covered the problems that agricultural supply dealer liens pose for financial institutions with...

Posted on 02/07/2022 at 05:44 PM by John Lande

Insurance is Getting Tired of Ransomware, Too

Recently, this blog covered the federal government’s increasing intolerance of cybersecurity incidents. The Office of Fo...

Posted on 01/21/2022 at 09:43 AM by John Lande

Data Breach! Time to Tell the Regulators.

For many years, the primary concern of victims of cybersecurity events was mitigating the damage fraudsters caused in th...

Posted on 07/22/2021 at 09:33 AM by John Lande

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The global pandemic forced organizations of all kinds and sizes to change the ways they interact with their employees, c...