General Counsel and In House Counsel

  • National Law Journal

    Equifax, Before Breach, Lobbied to Limit Class-Action Damages

    By C. Ryan Barber | September 11, 2017

    In the months before revealing a data breach that potentially exposed the personal information of nearly half the adult U.S. population, Equifax Inc. turned to the firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington to help convince U.S. lawmakers to reduce penalties for companies that violated the federal fair credit-reporting law.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    GC Mid-Atlantic Events

    By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 11, 2017

    DELVACCA EVENTS • Cozen O'Connor will sponsor a "Meet Your Counterparts Networking Reception" on Sept. 14 from 6-8 p.m. at the Rose Tattoo…

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Performance-Based Compensation and Corporate Responsibility

    By Katayun I. Jaffari and Kaleena Laputka | September 11, 2017

    While shareholders across different business sectors necessarily have diverse concerns, executive compensation is a topic that remains at the top of nearly all shareholders' lists of corporate governance priorities. Largely beginning with the implementation of "say-on-pay" votes under The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act), companies have increased communications with shareholders and have begun more recently to proactively respond to shareholder concerns.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    GC Compensation

    By Nichole Morford | The Legal Intelligencer | September 11, 2017

    In The Legal's GC Compensation supplement find out how general counsel ranked in the state, and read about performance-based compensation and corporate responsibility.

  • National Law Journal

    FTC's First Action Against a Social Media 'Influencer' Might Not Be Last

    By C. Ryan Barber | September 8, 2017

    The Federal Trade Commission in several cases has faulted social media "influencers" for failing to disclose the payments behind their seemingly organic endorsements. But the FTC had only reached settlements with the companies, raising a question of when—if ever—the agency would directly go after the influencers. That time has come. The agency this week took its first action against an influencer.

  • Corporate Counsel

    Hurricane Irma's Coming. It's Time to Call the In-House Lawyers

    By David Ruiz | September 8, 2017

    As Florida companies wait for Hurricane Irma to hit, disaster consultants discuss how to survive a hurricane's damage and how to safeguard employees.

  • Corporate Counsel

    FDA Warns EpiPen Makers Over Manufacturing Faults

    By Kristen Rasmussen | September 8, 2017

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to Meridian Medical Technologies, a unit of Pfizer, charging that it failed to investigate multiple complaints that some EpiPen auto-injectors, distributed by Mylan N.V., had failed during emergencies, including some that involved fatalities.

  • Corporate Counsel

    Victoria Silbey Named General Counsel at Laureate Education

    By Sue Reisinger | September 8, 2017

    Victoria Silbey joins the for-profit higher education network from SunGard Data Systems.

  • National Law Journal

    What Employers Should Consider After Trump's DACA Decision

    By Erin Mulvaney | September 7, 2017

    Major U.S. companies have pushed back against the Trump administration's plan to rescind the Obama-era authorization program that allowed an estimated 800,000 undocumented immigrants to remain in the country. Yet, if the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is terminated and Congress doesn't craft new rules, any defiant companies that move to shield workers from deportation could be exposed to compliance headaches and legal hurdles, employment lawyers say.

  • Corporate Counsel

    Whistleblower Nets $2.25M Exposing NM Medicaid Scheme

    By Kristen Rasmussen | September 7, 2017

    Santa Fe, New Mexico's St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and its Irving, Texas-based partner Christus Health have agreed to pay $12.24 million plus interest to settle allegations that they made illegal donations to county governments under a discontinued state matching program, and a whistleblower will receive $2.25 million for his or her share of the recovery.

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