Amend Your Arbitration Clause to Comply with New Rules
January 31, 2014
Franchising companies often select arbitration to resolve issues with their franchisees and critical vendors. An arbitral forum allows the parties to discuss and resolve marketing initiatives outside of the prying eyes of the media and competitors. Although some companies welcome the limitations on appeals of arbitration awards as an advantage in reaching finality of business disputes, others find it a reason to avoid arbitration, because the costs of a bad outcome can be high.
Global Corruption Enforcement
January 31, 2014
For multinational corporations, reducing the risks and concomitant expenses associated with corrupt employee behavior must be a priority. This article discusses the benefits of embedding compliance doctrine within operations, and how businesses could market integrity and compliance to gain a competitive advantage.
BRIC by BRIC
January 31, 2014
When the United States passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in 1977, it made a long-term investment, arguably at the cost of near-term competitiveness, in the ability of the U.S. economy to raise corporate and ethical best practices globally. With a number of reforms now underway in Brazil, Russia, India and China (the high-growth, high-risk BRIC countries), it appears the investment is paying dividends.
IP News
January 31, 2014
Federal Circuit Takes Hard Look at a More Permissive Standard for Fee-shifting <br>Federal Circuit Confirms that Prosecution History Estoppel Applies to Design Patents<br>FDCA Does Not Preempt State Unfair Competition Claims
Net News
January 31, 2014
Ninth Circuit Cool to Privacy Claims against Facebook, Zynga <br>Cooley Advises LegalZoom in Private Equity Infusion
Tensions Between Authors' Contracts for Book Publishing and Film Production Rights
January 31, 2014
The agreements authors make with companies that publish their books ' and with the production companies that make films based on those books ' have changed significantly over the past several years. Due in part to the kind of films currently being produced and to available new technologies (particularly for books), these changes have introduced conflicting overlaps between the two types of contracts.
Your e-Discovery Bucket List
January 31, 2014
In-house teams that have been subject to resource constraints and staff reductions must approach their litigation more thoughtfully and creatively than ever before.
Criminal Forfeiture Laws
January 30, 2014
The government's ability to freeze a defendant's assets before trial and the resulting impact on the defendant's constitutional right to counsel of his choice is currently before the Supreme Court in <I>Kaley v. United States.</I>