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Stephanie R. Thomas
The last two years have seen major changes in the legal and regulatory environment regarding compensation discrimination, and there are even more on the horizon.
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Alan Minsk
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Diana Rusk Cohen
Failure to comply with government regulations, and inactivity if a company falls out of compliance, can lead to serious product liability issues in the long term. Unfortunately, CEOs often do not consider the potential cost of product liability enforcement when they evaluate whether or not to act.
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Marjorie J. Peerce
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Carolyn Barth Renzin
What are the implications of having child pornography on the premises? In businesses, child pornography generally is discovered by IT personnel. Or, if a corporation undergoes an unrelated internal investigation in which all computers, hard drives, e-mail servers, etc. are frozen and searched for responsive material, such a search can to lead to the discovery of child pornography stored on the corporation's server or on an individual's hard drive. What can/must/should be done as a result?
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Stanley A. Twardy, Jr.
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Doreen Klein
In June, the Supreme Court unanimously held that Enron's former CEO Jeffrey Skilling did not commit "honest services" fraud, ruling that the statute under which he was convicted must be limited to bribery and kickback schemes to avoid constitutional concerns over vagueness. The decision should curtail prosecution of a variety of conduct that the government would otherwise seek to criminalize through the statute. In contrast, the courts are expanding the reach of other criminal statutes to encompass conduct previously regarded as outside their scope.
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Stan Soocher
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York dismissed a federal RICO claim that alleged the defendants took the basis for their TV program The Great American Road Trip from a TV show idea created by the plaintiffs.
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Wayne N. Outten
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Cara E. Greene
Federal statutes protecting whistleblowers are on the rise. Most recently, the Dodd-Frank Act, meant to overhaul and strengthen federal oversight of the financial system, included workplace protections for whistleblowers in the financial services industry. But that is not the only new law to include whistleblower protections.
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Mark S. Sidoti, Philip J. Duffy
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Paul E. Asfendis
Despite huge technological advancements in the 25 years since passage of the SCA, and the ever-increasing prominence of electronic communication in our society, Congress has not amended the SCA to keep pace with changing technology. Rather, courts have had to lead the charge in applying the decades-old statute to modern Internet technology and electronic communication disclosure issues.
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Karla Grossenbacher
Family care issues permeate the workplace, arising in the context of employee recruitment, growth, development and career advancement, and employee requests for time off, flexible schedules and other benefits.
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Barry Vitou
The new UK Bribery Act comes into force in April 2011. It has been described by some as the most draconian anti-corruption law in the world.
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Toby J.F. Bishop
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Mohammed Ahmed
Section 922 of Dodd-Frank created awards of 10%-30% of monetary sanctions for whistleblowers who report to the SEC original information leading to securities law enforcement actions that recover more than $1 million. Here are 10 actions organizations might take to help mitigate the increased regulatory risk this change may create.
