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Inside Counsel

Merger challenges were up in 2012 fiscal year

Challenges to U.S. mergers and acquisitions are up.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Regulatory: Collaborating to solve the vexing UDAAP dilemma

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus (CFPB) authority to prevent unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practice (UDAAP) under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is, as it turns out, a very powerful weapon.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Roundup: 2nd, 5th, 6th and 8th Circuits

2nd CircuitConnecticut, New York, VermontDangerous misrepresentation negates NLRA protectionHome health aides who went on strike after telling their employer…
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The risks and rewards of social media

Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites have been a fact of life for nearly a decade.
38 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Google owns up to privacy violations in Street View settlement

Some of Google Inc.s cars were snapping up a lot more than pictures during the companys Street View mapping projectthey collected personal data, such as emails and passwords, from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks as they drove by.
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

IP: Obamacare’s constitutional impact on patents

Enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as the PPACA or Obamacare) resulted in barrage of media coverage that has endured as the law nears its 2014 implementation date.
14 minute read

International Edition

Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including Hogan Lovells and K&L Gates

Hong Kong law firm Deacons has added to its corporate team with the hire of private equity partner Robert Woll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (WilmerHale). Woll, who headed the US firm's Beijing office for six years, is a specialist in M&A and private equity transactions, and deals involving venture capital and real estate investment funds.
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

Medicare/Medicaid fraud whistleblowers could earn nearly $10 million under proposed rule

A new rule announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday would increase whistleblower payouts for people who shed light on healthcare fraud.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

N.Y. attorney general drops damages claim against ex-AIG CEO

N.Y. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has dropped a claim for damages against Hank Greenberg, the former CEO of American International Group Inc. (AIG), reportedly in an effort to expedite a fraud case against the executive.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

Obama nominates antitrust expert as regulatory czar

President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he will nominate Howard Shelanski, an antitrust expert, to be the next regulatory czar.
3 minute read

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