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Inside Track: Is It Time to Add a Labor Attorney to Your In-House Team?

After decades of decline, unions are seeing a resurgence. And that means being a labor attorney is suddenly hot.
4 minute read

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Inside Track: Is ESG Really Going to Alter the Course of Capitalism?

"This landscape is complicated by often ambiguous guidance from regulators, stakeholder pressure and competing goals within the business itself," a recent study notes.
5 minute read

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Inside Track: Views Diverge Over DEI Programs for Outside Counsel

Many diversity advocates say DEI programs that hold outside law firms' feet to the fire—even if they don't go as far as what Coca-Cola proposed and Novartis implemented—are just what's needed to move the needle on law firm diversity.
6 minute read

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Inside Track: Rohit Chopra Giving Big Banks Heartburn

"How do we stop large, dominant firms from violating the law over and over again with seeming impunity?" said Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
4 minute read

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Inside Track: How Your Company Can Squelch the Temptation of Bribery

"There are countries where corruption is much more pervasive. So companies do face more challenges operating in those countries. With proper training and procedures in place, companies are able to overcome that," said Laura Perkins, a Hughes Hubbard & Reed partner.
5 minute read

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Inside Track: The Quest to Push Mental Health Struggles Out of the Shadows

"This case should alert others who have mental health issues to seek treatment prior to things escalating beyond their control," said Marie Hoover, whose husband's manic episode led to a criminal conviction and license suspension.
4 minute read

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Inside Track: DOJ Ups Focus on Corporate Crime, Plans to Target Individuals

Attorney General Merrick Garland says, "the prospect of personal liability has an uncanny ability to focus the mind. That prospect is the best deterrent to corporate crime."
5 minute read

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Inside Track: Corporate Responses to Ukranian Invasion Underscore Perils of ESG

"We are acutely aware that our decision last week to purchase a cargo of Russian crude oil ... was not the right one and we are sorry," Shell Oil Co. CEO Ben van Beurden said.
5 minute read

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Inside Track: Shifting Antitrust Regulation Tests Businesses Hungry for Certainty

"No more tolerance of abusive tactics by monopolies," President Joe Biden pledged last summer as he unveiled an executive order taking on anti-competitive business practices.
5 minute read

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Inside Track: Legal Departments Hope Prospective Hires Consider More Than Math

"My one primary reservation about making the move at this point in my career was the financial considerations," said Tracy Gray, who left private practice to become general counsel of True Fit.
5 minute read

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