Retail and Consumer Products
Overview
Strategic legal and business advice for every facet of the retail ecosystem, built on the backbone of our regulatory prowess.
While the ability for a consumer to complete a purchase transaction has never been simpler, the ecosystem responsible for curating the customer experience and delivering product has never been more complex. As a result, members of the retail ecosystem operate at a dizzying speed, with a constant focus on the future. As lawyers and business advisors to this industry, we can only be effective if we embrace this pace and meet our clients’ needs head-on, in real time.
Built on the backbone of our nationally renowned regulatory group, Crowell & Moring’s Retail and Consumer Products Law Group understands the full scope of challenges and opportunities presented to retailers, consumer products companies, and brand owners. Our clients depend on us to provide legal guidance that meets their strategic objectives. This business-focused approach is woven into the fabric of our group and enables us to act quickly, be decisive, and deliver practical, actionable advice.
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Our effectiveness is demonstrated by our clients’ decisions to call upon us, time and again, to help them navigate the complex legal and regulatory regimes, both domestically and internationally, applicable to the design and promotion of products and services, and to assist them in taking innovative and proactive measures to protect their businesses from the array of challenges before them.
— Cheri Falvey, Partner
- Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act White Paper
Contacts
Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 07.02.25
Section 230 Reform: What Websites Need to Know Now
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 has been credited with “creating” the internet by immunizing websites and platforms from lawsuits arising from the content posted by third-party users. Specifically, an internet company is not liable for publishing or posting content drafted by another person under conventional common law tort theories such as defamation or slander, however loathsome, violent or otherwise hateful that content is. At the same time, Section 230 also immunizes a website or platform that engages in good-faith moderation of content it deems to violate its terms of use/conditions or community standards.
Insights
“IP and Other Regulatory Issues,” LM&A Interactive Online Live (Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances
|12.05.24
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06.20.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Crowell Atelier June 2025: What Luxury Retailers Need to Know About Possible Section 230 Reform
|06.10.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Updates (April 14 – 18, 2025)
|04.29.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Blog Updates March 10 – March 14
|03.24.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Taking Aim at Humphrey’s Executor: Trump Fires the FTC’s Democratic Commissioners
|03.19.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Updates (February 3- 21, 2025)
|03.17.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Updates (December 30 – January 10, 2025)
|01.16.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Updates (December 2-6, 2024)
|12.11.24
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Updates (November 18-29, 2024)
|12.03.24
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Updates (October 28 – November 1, 2024)
|11.15.24
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Professionals
Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 07.02.25
Section 230 Reform: What Websites Need to Know Now
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 has been credited with “creating” the internet by immunizing websites and platforms from lawsuits arising from the content posted by third-party users. Specifically, an internet company is not liable for publishing or posting content drafted by another person under conventional common law tort theories such as defamation or slander, however loathsome, violent or otherwise hateful that content is. At the same time, Section 230 also immunizes a website or platform that engages in good-faith moderation of content it deems to violate its terms of use/conditions or community standards.
Contacts
Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 07.02.25
Section 230 Reform: What Websites Need to Know Now
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 has been credited with “creating” the internet by immunizing websites and platforms from lawsuits arising from the content posted by third-party users. Specifically, an internet company is not liable for publishing or posting content drafted by another person under conventional common law tort theories such as defamation or slander, however loathsome, violent or otherwise hateful that content is. At the same time, Section 230 also immunizes a website or platform that engages in good-faith moderation of content it deems to violate its terms of use/conditions or community standards.
