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Inside Counsel

Technology: Corporate counsel’s role in governing privacy and security risk

The advent of the chief privacy officer role has occurred largely within the regulated sectors of health care and financial services, but has spread to many industries and companies of all sizes.
8 minute read

Inside Counsel

Quiz: Test your knowledge of March's top legal news stories

Test your knowledge of the past months most importantand weirdestlegal news
13 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: SEC actions time-barred after five years? Not quite.

On Feb. 27, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous ruling in Gabelli v. SEC that actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for civil penalties must be brought within five years from the date on which the claim first accrued, as opposed to five years from discovery...
9 minute read

International Edition

A job half done – how the UK must prepare itself for the EU's Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive

The EU's Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) will hugely affect the management and marketing of alternative investment funds (AIFs) within the European Economic Area (EEA). (For the purpose of this article, AIFs are, broadly speaking, any investment fund that is not a Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) fund.) EEA states are required to have implemented the AIFMD into their national law by 22 July. Notwithstanding the fact that the original draft of the directive was released in April 2009, there are still several material issues that remain unresolved. And UK managers of AIFs could be in for a white-knuckle ride over the next four months or so.
9 minute read

Inside Counsel

Regulatory: EPA enforcement in the energy sector and beyond

This article looks beyond the electric utility sector to other areas of anticipated EPA action during President Obamas second term.
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

8 noteworthy in-house career moves

Charting some of the most recent GC and in-house appointments
3 minute read

Inside Counsel

Regulatory: Analyzing the FTC’s updated digital advertising guidelines

After much anticipation from the marketing community, on March 12, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finally unveiled .com Disclosures: How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising, its eagerly awaited revised dot-com disclosures guidance.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Eyes Wide Open

Because merger challenges and investigations have increased since the Bush administration, lawyers advise companies to go into deals expecting more antitrust…
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Google emerges from FTC antitrust probe largely unscathed

On Jan. 3, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the culmination of its antitrust investigation into three facets of Google Inc.s business practices: online advertising, patents and search algorithms.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Non-profits don't have flesh-and-blood owners

I was thinking about the persistence of disbelief earlier this year.
7 minute read

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