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Applying Technology To the Business of Health Care Image

Applying Technology To the Business of Health Care

Jonathan Bick

Advocates for online health services have long argued that the health care-services and health care-products industries could significantly enhance its ability to deliver quality products and services to consumers by using e-commerce to improve access to, and the timeliness and accuracy of, information, delivery and purchasing pertaining to the health care-sector supply chain.

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Asking Prospective Employees for Social Media Login Data

Steven W. Suflas & Mary Cate Gordon

A recent trend in the human resources community is to ask prospective employees for usernames and passwords to social media sites to allow the hiring employer access to otherwise private information about an employment candidate's "online identity." e-Commerce companies, even though they are based on and operate through online activities, sometimes through social media, should carefully consider what principals and hiring parties in the firms may view as a natural inclination to examine an applicant's or an employee's social media postings and persona by demanding access to the sites.

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What's Scarier Than an Agency Audit? Three Agency Audits Image

What's Scarier Than an Agency Audit? Three Agency Audits

Robert G. Brody & Rebecca Goldberg

Misclassifying employees as "independent contractors" may put employers in triple jeopardy. (<i>See</i> article <i>infra</i> by Rosanna Sattler.)

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Update: The IRS Whistleblower Program Image

Update: The IRS Whistleblower Program

Sharon L. McCarthy

This article continues last month's discusssion with a look at the IRS whislteblower program's success to date, as well as proposed improvements to the program.

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ERISA Class Certification in The Wake of Dukes And Amara Image

ERISA Class Certification in The Wake of Dukes And Amara

Darren E. Nadel & Allison R. Cohn

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two starkly different decisions in 2011 that together will shape (and, indeed, have already shaped) the analysis that courts must employ in determining whether to certify ERISA class actions.

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Guidelines for Maximizing D&O Insurance Coverage for SEC Matters Image

Guidelines for Maximizing D&O Insurance Coverage for SEC Matters

Katherine Henry

Depending upon policy terms, D&amp;O insurance may pay defense costs incurred in response to various SEC actions, including an informal investigation, a formal order of investigation, a subpoena or an indictment.

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Courts in Australia And the U.S. Address Google's AdWords Program Image

Courts in Australia And the U.S. Address Google's AdWords Program

Catherine Malia Ting

Appellate courts in both the United States and Australia recently addressed whether Google, Inc. violated the country's respective trademark laws through the use of third-party trademarks as keywords in Google's AdWords advertising program. Google suffered legal losses in both countries.

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Second Circuit Revives Copyright Case Against Google, YouTube Image

Second Circuit Revives Copyright Case Against Google, YouTube

Nate Raymond & Mark Hamblett

Viacom International got a second shot at proving that Google's YouTube massively infringed its copyrights by hosting clips from shows like <i>The Daily Show</i> and <i>Family Guy</i> without its permission. And whether Viacom and its lawyers succeed or not, they've already managed to shape the developing case law over copyrighted content that users illegally upload to the Internet.

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Asking Prospective Employees for Social Media Credentials

Steven W. Suflas & Mary Cate Gordon

This article addresses legal concerns in accessing a prospective employee's social media information.

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Thoughts on the Proposed FCPA Guidance Image

Thoughts on the Proposed FCPA Guidance

Jacqueline C. Wolff & Nicole German Di Schino

This year may mark the beginning of a new, more predictable era in the world of FCPA compliance and enforcement. Here's why.

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