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 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 05/22/2019 at 04:04 PM by John Lande

Bank to Customer: We’re Not Your Insurance Company

Cybersecurity incidents routinely grab headlines, and for good reason. These incidents often lead to exposure of large v...

Posted on 12/07/2018 at 11:13 AM by John Lande

Employer Owes Employees More than a Paycheck

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently decided that employers have a duty to take reasonable steps to protect sensitive...

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...