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Wal-Mart Raises Salaries, Avoiding Overtime Rule

Current Labor Department rules require employers to pay overtime to workers who make less than $23,660 a year. New rules, […]

What Was Revealed In The Biggest Law Firm Hack In History

Reviewing several current books on the Panama Papers, Oxford’s Alan Rusbridger, currently chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study […]

How Books-And-Records Violations Can Draw An FCPA Charge

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, regulators often discover corruption indirectly by identifying violations of books-and-records and internal-accounting provisions. What […]

Using E-Discovery Technology To Mitigate FCPA Exposure

Technology that has been developed for e-discovery can also be used internally by companies to carry out Foreign Corrupt Practice […]

Medtronic’s Ireland Move Garners Shareholder Lawsuit

Medtronic’s relocation of its nominal corporate headquarters to Ireland last year generated a capital gains tax bill for about 20 […]

Court: An Obsolete Claim Is False Advertising

The claim by Dyson Inc. was arguably true when they said it (“twice the suction of any other vacuum” ), […]

Avoiding ADA Public Accommodation Lawsuits For The Holidays

Anticipating the approaching retail sales season, a post from Perkins Coie looked at the prospects for American with Disabilities Act […]

Two Major Securities Cases For SCOTUS

Salman v. U.S. addresses uncertainty about the definition of “personal benefit” as a necessary element to establish a case of insider trading.

Address Information Governance Now, Avoid Legal Headaches Later

There were a host of problems associated with storing paper records. They ate up closet space and sometimes whole warehouses, […]

U.S. Chamber, 21 States Sue DOL Over New Overtime Rules

In two separate lawsuits filed in the Eastern District of Texas, the Department of Labor is being sued over its […]

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