The year 2012 was another banner year for Department of Justice (DOJ) officials charged with prosecuting corporate enforcement actions. The DOJ recovered $4.9 billion from False Claims Act cases, the most ever in a single year.
What a recent Supreme Court decision does is to effectively immunize pharmaceutical generics manufacturers from state tort liability when they use FDA-approved labels for their products deemed equivalent to brand-name FDA-approved drugs.
Family law judges and lawyers need to be aware that in assigning the dependency exemption to a non-custodial parent, Form 8332 releasing the exemption must be secured from the custodial parent.
Recent case law in Illinois raises the question of how to proceed with discovery and with establishing your case if you are confronted with an issue of retained earnings involving a non-marital business.
Technology used in the context of separation and divorce is not always of the facilitating variety. To the contrary, family court judges and lawyers frequently observe how technology is used as a weapon.
Cloud computing has spawned a rise in companies encouraging employees to "bring your own device" (BYOD) to work, and it's a trend on the rise at law firms. Here's what you need to know.
Once the theoretical value of hiring a PR firm is agreed upon, and some level of buy-in is attained from the partners, legal marketers are often left with a troubling question: Now what?
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
As consumers continue to shift purchasing and consumption habits in the aftermath of the pandemic, manufacturers are increasingly reliant on third-party logistics and warehousing to ensure their products timely reach the market.
Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code grants debtors the ability to assume or reject any executory contract or unexpired lease. Debtors must assume or reject a lease in its entirety and are not free under Section 365 to assume only favorable provisions of a lease. Courts, however, have consistently held that they will not find a multi-property master lease to be a unitary lease merely because such properties are demised in a single document.
