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A mid-year cartel report by law firm Allen & Overy shows global antitrust enforcement by the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission is on pace to set record-level fines in 2014.

General counsel and in-house legal teams must stop seeing the rise of CCOs as a threat, writes Michael Volkov, and instead work together to raise the awareness and role of ethics and compliance in a company.

In a recent case of reports downloaded from Salesforce.com that ended up in the hands of a company’s competitor, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that password protection alone was not sufficient to maintain trade secret status.

Administrators at more than 100 Community Health Systems hospitals created a scheme to charge Medicaid for unnecessary patient care, and allegedly fired employees who failed to go along with it. The hospital will now pay nearly $100 million to settle nine whistleblower lawsuits.

The tide is turning in favor of plaintiffs filing class actions against firms over data breaches, writes Butler Snow LLP’s Melody McAnally, and financial institutions are leading the charge.

The half-a-billion that Wal-Mart has already sunk into FCPA investigations in recent years is a warning that companies should check their insurance coverage to see if pre-suit costs are covered.