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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

Inside Counsel

$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

Inside Counsel

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

Inside Counsel

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

Inside Counsel

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

Inside Counsel

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

Inside Counsel

Regulatory: Understanding discovery in administrative post-grant proceedings at the Patent & Trademark Office

Some crucial lessons can be taken from the first year of proceedings under the America Invents Act
9 minute read

International Edition

Barclays compliance chief Sants takes stress-related leave

Barclays head of compliance Sir Hector Sants has taken leave until the end of the year, citing "stress and exhaustion". Sants, the former chief executive of the legacy Financial Services Authority (FSA), was appointed to the newly-created role of head of compliance and government and regulatory relations role in January this year.
2 minute read

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