Risk Management

Oil Industry Report Warned Of Climate Change In ’82

A report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute in 1982 outlined several models for climate change, all of them pointing […]

Liability For Third Party Vendor’s Conduct

More and more corporate services – accounting, HR and recruiting, and payroll processing, among many others – are being outsourced […]

EEOC Wants Tougher Retaliation Rules

Proposed changes would “further stack the deck against employers” by expanding the definition of both…

Hacking Is A Tough Way To Make A Living

A recent survey by the Ponemon Institute got feedback from about 300 hackers, most of them from the U.S., the UK and Germany. Their average yearly “compensation” would ….

Fear Of Liability Haunts Corporate Boards, Hinders Recruiting

It was already getting more difficult for companies to recruit board members, but following the Yates Memo of September last […]

Lost Key Just Pretext For Firing Says Walmart Pharmacist, Wins $31M

According to the plaintiff in a discrimination and retaliation case, Walmart’s claim that she was fired because she lost a […]

The Pro-Competitive Justification

In many marketing initiatives that arguably entail some restraint of trade, it may be possible to invoke “pro-competitive justifications” writes […]

Potential Pitfalls For A Copyright Licensee

App developers, among others, need to be aware of “exclusive use infringement.” The fact it’s inadvertent won’t save you, warns […]

Big Pharma Calls For Socialized R&D

The rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” is the result of decades of overuse, in part due to intense promotion by the […]

Death Of Iranian Sanctions Greatly Exaggerated

It’s been widely reported that sanctions against Iran are history, but far from it, says a post from Ropes & […]

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