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Do Your Employment Practices Violate Antitrust Law? They Might!
Did you know that your employment practices could violate antitrust law? This is the message to be gleaned from joint guidance recently issued by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
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Building Your Medical Liability Risk Management Program<br><i><b><font size="-1">The Underwriter Relationship<br>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</font></b></i>
A medical professional's ability to procure insurance coverage — and on the best financial terms — depends largely on the discretion of an insurance underwriter — the insurer's gatekeeper. The underwriter is key to a health care provider's risk management program and financial protection.
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The Meaning of 'Sex'<br><i><font size="-1">LGBTQ Rights Under the Legal Microsope</i><br><i>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</font></i>
The Supreme Court's decision in <i>Gloucester County School Board v. G.G.</i> is likely to have a significant impact on federal workplace discrimination laws, despite the fact that the case does not implicate the employment relationship, or involve employment law.
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'Potential Client' Conflict Issues: Six Tips for Avoiding Them<br><b><i><font size="-1">Part Three of a Three-Part Article</font></b></i>
Problems can arise for attorneys and their clients when a lawyer consults with a third party but ultimately is not retained. As the author discussed in Parts One and Two of this article, communication with such a potential client might disqualify the lawyer from representing his or her current client. Following are his six tips for avoiding this problem.
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Med Mal News
Discussion of two cases, one involving 2016's “Judicial Hell Holes.”
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Off-Label Promotion and Product Liability Considerations
An update on the current regulatory landscape in the off-label promotional area and also review potential liability risks for companies to consider, and recommendations to reduce these risks.
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<i>Forest Capital</i><br><i><font size="-1">Is It a Case of UCC Article 8 Versus 9?</i></font>
Institutions that maintain and manage securities accounts for businesses and other customers perform a critical function for the securities and lending…
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Injunction of the DOL's Overtime Rule and Its Appeal
Is the Department of Labor's overtime rule now dead? Will the overtime rule be modified to a more modest version? Much uncertainty remains regarding the recently announced overtime rule in both the legal and the political sphere.
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