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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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<B><I>Online Exclusive:</b></i> <b>House Rejects Facebook Password Amendment</b> Image

<B><I>Online Exclusive:</b></i> <b>House Rejects Facebook Password Amendment</b>

Steven Salkin, Esq.

The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposed amendment to the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2012 (H.R. 3309) that would have allowed the FCC to prevent employers from asking for social networking passwords from prospective employees.

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Technology Can Cap Internet Facilitators' Liability Image

Technology Can Cap Internet Facilitators' Liability

Jonathan Bick

Advances in Internet technology have increased facilitators' capacity to ameliorate Internet bad acts automatically. Failure to employ such technology may result in more liability for Internet facilitators for preventing bad acts online.

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