Litigation

Judge Defines “Agent” For the Purposes of the FCPA

Lawrence Hoskins had a good argument that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act didn’t apply to him. He worked for a […]

Compliance Reboot At The Antitrust Division

In my column in the June/July 2014 issue of Today’s General Counsel Magazine, I called on the Antitrust Division to […]

Four Questions To Answer About New Privacy Regulations

Many companies, and not just in California, as of January 1 became subject to The California Consumer Privacy Act. Those […]

Privilege Caution When In-House Attorney Is 30(b)(6) Witness

In the Northern District of Illinois, a court ruled that a company must produce privileged documents that an in-house attorney […]

New Ransomware Threat: We’ll Broadcast Data You Won’t Buy Back

Purveyors of a strain of malware called Maze Ransomware have added another term to their extortion deal. Not only will […]

Plaintiff Lawyer Accused Of Extortion In Roundup Case

A Virginia plaintiff attorney has been arrested and accused of attempting to extort $200 million from manufacturers of a component […]

Challenge To CA’s Women-On-The-Board Law Fails To Materialize

A law that was expected to spawn a wave of litigation – and which even Governor Jerry Brown, who signed […]

Cyberwarfare Does Not Equal Cyberwar, But Can Still Be Devastating

Many readers will remember the Stuxnet virus, which in 2010 infected computers in Iran and caused thousands of uranium enrichment […]

Have Algorithms Gotten A Bad Rap?

Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of behavioral and computational science at the University of Chicago, is the co-author of two studies […]

Women Can Proceed As a Class Against Disney

A California state judge has ruled against Disney in a pay equity suit brought by LaRonda Rasmussen, a product development […]

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