Rebekah Mintzer

July 21, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Blood-testing startup Theranos Inc. announced Thursday it has hired a new chief compliance officer and a new vice president of regulatory and quality as the health care technology company grapples with a regulation and litigation maelstrom.

By Rebekah Mintzer

7 minute read

July 21, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

A report from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shows the agency has ramped up its work on systemic discrimination cases, achieving a significant increase in the number of these matters investigated annually since 2011.

By Rebekah Mintzer

7 minute read

July 20, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Dionne Koller, professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, speaks on the challenges that the international community is facing in regulating the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

By Rebekah Mintzer

9 minute read

July 15, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

In an interview with Corporate Counsel, Microsoft's top in-house lawyer Brad Smith opened up on his winning strategy in the company's privacy test case against the U.S. government.

By Rebekah Mintzer

10 minute read

July 13, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Three conservative political nonprofit groups will pay a total of $233,000 to the Federal Election Commission to resolve allegations they failed to disclose campaign advertisement money that they received from a consultant who was working for David and Charles Koch of Koch Industries.

By Rebekah Mintzer

6 minute read

July 12, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to vote Wednesday on proposed changes to the agency's administrative proceedings as criticism rises that the forum is biased in favor of federal regulators. In preparation for Wednesday's vote, here are five observations from the defense bar going into the hearing.

By Rebekah Mintzer

12 minute read

July 11, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

The National Labor Relations Board reversed a more than decade-old precedent Monday that now could make it easier for temporary workers to join a company's regular workforce in forming collective bargaining units.

By Rebekah Mintzer

6 minute read

July 11, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

A report from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shows the agency has ramped up its work on systemic discrimination cases, achieving a significant increase in the number of these matters investigated annually since 2011.

By Rebekah Mintzer

7 minute read

July 07, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

U.S. House Republicans on Wednesday grilled an Obama administration federal regulation overseer about whether his agency is adequately prepared for the possibility of an eleventh-hour rush of new rules at the end of the president's second term in office.

By Rebekah Mintzer

6 minute read

July 06, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Two senior executives at an egg company in Iowa that was central to a nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010 can be held criminally liable as "responsible corporate officers," a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in a closely watched prosecution.

By Rebekah Mintzer

11 minute read