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FHFA seeking $6 billion from Bank of America in mortgage crisis settlement

J.P. Morgan was not the only bank who got into lending trouble, and for Bank of America, the FHFA price tag could be even higher.
2 minute read

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Are whistleblowers protected from retaliation?

There have been conflicting rulings coming from circuit and district courts that are in direct opposition.
2 minute read

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Inside: OFCCP prepares for assault on federal contractors

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is ready to announce two Final Rules to improve hiring and employment of veterans and persons with disabilities.
5 minute read

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$2.46 billion payment ordered in 11-year old securities fraud case

After 11 years, investors of subprime lender Household International Inc. are finally beginning to see some closure in a drawn-out fraud case.
4 minute read

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Monsanto suits go to Kansas

The filings allege that after testing a strain of wheat that was modified to be resistant against the weed-killer Roundup, Monsanto did not destroy all of the plants at a testing field.
4 minute read

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HIPAA in conflict with ACA

These same restrictions are making it tougher for patients to share information with each other and with their providers.
2 minute read

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Technology: FTC and self-regulatory frameworks regarding online behavioral advertising

The FTC and the advertising industry are focused on privacy concerns and have set forth recommendations and a self-regulatory framework focused on notice and consumer choice.
8 minute read

International Edition

The next big thing – regulation's booming popularity in legal business

September 2007. A month Ian McDonald remembers well. "My banking and finance colleague Kevin Hawken came to see me and said: 'What do you know about SIVs [structured investment vehicles]?'" recalls McDonald, London head of commercial dispute resolution at Mayer Brown. "I thought it was a kitchen gadget. I really had no idea – but that is part of the challenge as litigators." His ignorance was short-lived. Mayer Brown's litigators were among the first called upon to help restructure SIVs – complex financial products once worth an estimated $400bn (£247.3bn) – when the 2007 credit crunch halted the short-term funding that underpinned them. For McDonald and his colleagues, it marked the start of busy few years.
19 minute read

Inside Counsel

U.K. authorities formally investigating exchange rate manipulation

Authorities believe banks from across the globe, including the U.S., pooled information to exchange large sums of money from one currency to another based on markets.
2 minute read

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Litigation: Health care consultants and government enforcement landmines

As in healthcare itself, an ounce of compliance prevention may be worth a pound of financial cure.
5 minute read

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