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By Brian Finch & Tom Kellermann Editor’s Note: Brian Finch is a partner with Dickstein Shapiro LLP and Tom Kellermann is a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC. Thanks to Mr. Finch and Mr. Kellermann for allowing us to...

By Kristin Casler Was the Supreme Court’s decision granting gay couples a constitutional right to marry one of the Top 10 Cases of 2015? How about when it found unconstitutional a city’s demand to see hotel registries without a warrant...

With rapid and ongoing changes in digital communications and storage technology―as well as our changing habits―come new risks to the sacred doctrine of attorney-client privilege. If you have not done so already, your law firm, corporate legal department...

By Sterling Miller Sterling Miller has more than 20 years of in-house legal experience as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Compliance Officer of Sabre Corporation and Travelocity.com. He currently is Senior Counsel to Gober Hilgers...

Outsourcing anything from discovery to document review to patent searches, firms and companies appear to be finding great “efficiencies” of several varieties, the most obvious being cost savings. But with those savings comes other opportunities...

By Tom Hagy. Little has rocked the world of news publishing in recent decades more than the proliferation of fake news. It’s been blamed for everything from swaying voters in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to triggering tectonic political...

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BY DAVID F. KATZ, NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH -- Due diligence in the context of mergers and acquisitions can easily be compared to a Sherlock Holmes–style exercise where deductive powers of reasoning are applied to the careful...

By David Katz Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP The recent explosion of news about the top secret PRISM program, reported by The Guardian and The Washington Post ®, has raised privacy and national security matters to the forefront...

Conducting business abroad can be complex enough because of differing languages, cultures and laws. Throw in maintaining compliance with U.S. anti-corruption rules when spending money on foreign officials, and the complexity multiplies. Persistent...

Among the many things that have been challenged by the advent of digital, portable, mobile and social network communications is attorney-client privilege (ACP). The risks and pitfalls change as technology changes to enable us to communicate and share...

Dos and Don’ts for Employer Social Media Policies By Christopher P. Calsyn Crowell & Moring LLP Employers continue to live in a state of uncertainty, wondering if the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) will declare that their...

Special from : How to Perform a Corruption Risk Assessment Virtually every authoritative source of guidance on effective anti-corruption compliance emphasizes the importance of conducting a companywide “risk assessment.” For example...

CNBC ® reports : “Showing up to work high? You’re not alone.” According to a survey conducted by Mashable.com, 9.7% of Americans smoke marijuana before going to work. What’s more, of the 534 workers surveyed who admitted to...

After several years of commentary, debate and resistance, the financial world is bracing for the imminent implementation of the Volcker Rule, a key component of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Simply put, the Volcker Rule...

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Given the choice between attending antitrust compliance training and being pushed down a flight of stairs, is the question not how many employees will head for the stairwell, but who will get there first? If you answered yes, we may have a solution...

By Kristin Casler, featuring John A. Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan Complex Litigation Group and Ronald Raether of Troutman Sanders LLP. With the near-daily news of data breaches large and small, it’s only natural for companies to focus...

BY EVIE P. JEANG, IDEAL LEGAL GROUP INC. -- Recently, the Supreme Court found a part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. The case, United States v. Windsor , 133 S. Ct. 2675 (2013), actually involves estate taxes, but has direct...

Advances In Cloud Computing Raise New Legal and Ethical Issues There is no dispute that the advent of cloud computing has been one of the most significant technological advances in recent years. Despite its enormous benefits, cloud computing has also...

Value-Based Billing: The Alternative to Alternative Fee Arrangements It seems as though alternative fee arrangements, or AFAs, suffer more from great expectations than anything else. They were once touted as the great alternative to hourly billing...

By Kristin Casler, featuring Gregory Husisian of Foley & Lardner LLP and Michael Volkov of The Volkov Law Group LLC Years of robust federal enforcement have convinced most companies operating internationally to initiate policies that forbid...

Fines and penalties may be in the thousands of dollars, but assessments of the funds banks and credit card companies lose due to breaches and fraud can be in the millions―enough to put smaller merchants out of business entirely. Worse yet is that most...

This article is based on a presentation delivered at the Northeast Corporate Counsel Forum held on April 7, 2017, in Atlantic City. Mari Henry Leigh, a Chicago attorney and advisor on alternative fee arrangements, assembled and moderated the session....

Contributors: Drew Rawl, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA Minh Vu, Seyfarth Shaw LLP There has been a “tsunami” of lawsuits against companies in which plaintiff attorneys claim websites do not accommodate people with disabilities. But are...