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Overseas Product Liability Claims

George W. Soule

U.S. manufacturers are seeing more product liability claims abroad. Manufacturers may have little experience in litigating such claims, and will look to their U.S.-based liability counsel for assistance. There are several ways in which counsel may help manufacturers manage overseas litigation. Here are some of them.

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<b>Decision of Note</b> Film Payments Don't Toll Lawsuit Limitations Period

Stan Soocher

In its first ruling on the issue, the Court of Appeal of Florida decided that film distribution payments didn't fall under the state's "continuing tort" doctrine for purposes of extending the statute of limitations in a lawsuit alleging tortious interference with business relationship.

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Supreme Court Review: FLSA, Title VII, First Amendment, Religious Freedom

John P. Furfaro & Risa M. Salins

This review of U.S. Supreme Court decisions from the 2015-16 term in the area of labor and employment law looks at rulings pertaining to whether automobile service advisers are exempt from overtime pay under the FLSA; whether a ruling on the merits is a necessary predicate to finding a defendant is a prevailing party eligible for an attorney fees award under Title VII; and much

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Case Notes

Analysis of a case in which Tylenol defendants' experts failed the <I>Daubert</I> test

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Privacy and Security of Personal Information Collected by Employee Benefit Plans

Marc Bussone

High profile cyberattacks and data breaches have become routine occurrences. Cyber threats are so pervasive that many privacy and security experts advise that responsible parties ' like fiduciaries of employee benefit plans ' should prepare for <i>when</i> a data breach occurs, not <i>if</i>. Data collected by employee benefit plans includes sensitive information that makes them a particularly attractive target for cybercrime.

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Sullivan & Worcester's Advancement Think Tank

Ojen Sirin & Leah Schloss

This article explores a firm's content development initiative experiment from the marketing and professional development perspectives. A group of about eight senior associates, known as SWATT (Sullivan &amp; Worcester's Advancement Think Tank), were charged with developing the content. Here is their story.

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Three-Way Stop: Project Management, Technology and Process Improvement

Micah Ascano

Legal Project Management has seen an explosion of interest from the legal industry in recent years. It has been touted as the key to efficient legal work and a cure-all for the woes of fixed fees, fee caps, and lawyers who blow budgets. But what are the drawbacks?

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The SEC Whistleblower Program

Stephanie Korenman & Aegis J. Frumento

Last month, in Part One of this article,we examined the overall structure, operation and experience of the SEC's Whistleblower program over the first five years of its operation. In Part Two herein, we take a closer look at how the Office of the Whistleblower (OWB) processes Whistleblower claims, and we examine the claim decisions rendered through April 2016.

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The Troubled Energy and Production (Oil and Gas) Sector

Mark S. Melickian

The oil and gas exploration sector in North America has been crushed by high debt, globally low oil prices and regional overcapacity. The result: Over 100 oil and gas exploration and production companies have filed for bankruptcy over the past 18 months, and dozens more are expected to follow.

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EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Finalized

Jonathan Armstrong & Andr' Bywater

The European Commission concluded more than six months of negotiations both within the EU institutions and with the U.S. on July 12 with the announcement that agreement had been reached on the Privacy Shield scheme to transfer data from the EU to the U.S.

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