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e-Discovery and U.S.Privacy Laws
U.S. data privacy laws pose complex issues for corporations, especially in the context of e-discovery. Here's what you need to know.
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Components of a Truthful Complaint
If you've represented companies for any length of time, you've received internal complaints about a variety of workplace wrongdoings. How can you tell if the complaints are true?
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Domestic Commercial Bribery
While foreign bribery and corruption cases are currently getting most of the attention, this is no reason for domestic concerns to get too relaxed. Here's why.
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Clients in Cross-Border Investigations
This era of instantaneous cross-border communication and commerce has brought with it a corresponding increase in the application of the white-collar criminal laws of various countries to companies' international operations.
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Franchises Now Focus on Health Care Reform's Practical Effect
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has given a green light to implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, franchisors and franchisees are assessing how the law will affect their businesses.
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<i>Hadden</i> and Medicare's 'Full Reimbursement' Rule
By adopting a construction of the Act that allows the government to obtain full reimbursement of Medicare payments from a discounted settlement, even if the reimbursement exhausts the settlement, the Sixth Circuit's opinion chills settlement and undermines the efficient use of judicial resources.
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Physician Migration and Hospital Captives
Modifications to health care delivery are changing at a pace that far exceeds anyone's expectations ' and perhaps exceeds our ability to react and respond in a fashion that protects both provider and patient.
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Using Social Media to Your Advantage in Litigation
Social networking sites are not just for social networking. As individuals become more and more comfortable with presenting "private" information to the "public," information posted on social networking sites can provide a rich source of discovery and can be a game-changer in litigation.
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Increased Fraud Penalties Are on the Horizon
The guidelines governing the sentencing of fraud offenses ' long criticized as irrational, unduly severe, and the product of overt political pressure ' require wholesale reform.
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<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</b></i> Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law
In a stunning victory for the Obama administration, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 upheld the centerpiece of the nation's new health care law ' the so-called individual mandate to buy insurance ' as a constitutional exercise of Congress' taxing authority.
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