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Dr. Drew Pinsky paid by Glaxo to promote Wellbutrin

Apparently theres a link between depression and intimacy, and not just in the physiological sense. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that popular radio and television personality Dr. Drew Pinksy had a somewhat intimate relationship with pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK), the maker of antidepressant Wellbutrin, in the late '90s.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

Regulatory: What clients still need to know about the Affordable Care Act

The U.S. Supreme Courts decision on the Affordable Care Act resolves the uncertainty about the constitutionality of the Act
7 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: Is knowing a reporter’s confidential source knowing too much?

During last weeks pilot episode of HBOs new series The Newsroom, star cable news anchor Will McAvoy came face-to-face with a scoop on one of the biggest news stories in recent memory.
7 minute read

Inside Counsel

Regulatory: 5 lessons for loan servicer default firm vendor management

How to take a program from start to finish
4 minute read

International Edition

Covington leads as GlaxoSmithKline receives record $3bn fine

US firm Covington & Burling has taken the lead role for pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on its record $3bn (£1.9bn) criminal and civil settlement over drug misbranding, reports The Blog of Legal Times. The settlement saw GSK agree to plead guilty to criminal charges and to pay $1bn (£638m) in criminal fines and forfeitures for the illegal marketing and promotion of the drugs Paxil and Wellbutrin.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Judge rules that Dodd-Frank does not protect foreign whistleblowers

A former General Electric Co. (GE) employee who says he was fired after reporting potential corruption is not protected by Dodd-Frank whistleblower provisions, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
2 minute read

International Edition

SFO weighs up criminal prosecutions for Libor interest rate rigging

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is considering bringing criminal prosecutions against bankers involved in the Libor interest rate rigging scandal, it emerged today (2 July). Chancellor George Osborne announced last week that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) was not able to impose criminal sanctions for the manipulation of Libor - the benchmark interest rates used in financial markets around the world - due to the limited scope of its criminal powers.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Glaxo agrees to pay $956.8 million criminal fine

Its probably not the way GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) had hoped to start the second half of the year. The U.S. unit of GSK today agreed to plead guilty and pay a criminal fine of $956.8 million for marketing drugs for unapproved uses.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Labor: Supreme Court rejects the DOL’s outside sales exemption interpretation

Pharmaceutical companies can breathe a (big) sigh of relief
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The last political loophole is found in non-profits

The role of the (c)(4)s in politics is a hot-button issue that everybody knows about
7 minute read

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