Risk Management
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.
Two recent court decisions, one of them in an appellate court, have rebuffed attempts to dismiss securities class actions that […]
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.
Employers caught unprepared for the oncoming flood of wearable devices will be deeply exposed to liability for data breaches, privacy and workplace discrimination complaints, warns Mintz Levin attorney Jonathan Cain.
The case arose in the context of an employment dispute, where the employee made discovery requests for three separate email […]
A LexisNexis study has found that law firms are taking a significant security risk with email. Among the findings: Eighty-nine […]
A senior advisor for China’s State Council has been fired for allegedly helping Qualcomm Inc. in an antitrust probe in […]
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.
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