By Sue Reisinger | April 14, 2017
Weighing the risks of self-reporting a bribery violation, or hiding it, has always been a thorny issue for companies. That's the dilemma at the heart of the U.S. Justice Department's pilot program for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The Justice Department is mulling whether to continue the pilot program or to modify it. Most lawyers who have participated in the program said it should be continued, but with more clarity for companies.
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By C. Ryan Barber | April 13, 2017
The question hanging over the CFPB's arbitration rule—a proposal that drew tens of thousands of comments from consumer and business advocates—is less now about the finer points of the final rule than about whether the regulations will ever see the light of day at all. For the agency, the threat of a congressional override is not abstract. Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate proposed bills to tear up the CFPB's prepaid card rule.
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By C. Ryan Barber | April 13, 2017
In 2014, as general counsel to the U.S. Transportation Department, Katie Thomson shared a piece of advice she often gives to young lawyers: "What you do in your life is important but who you work with is equally important." Less than a year after leaving the Obama administration to join Morrison & Foerster, where she was chairwoman of the firm's transportation group, Thomson is now moving on to a newly created position at Amazon.com Inc.
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By Jenna Greene | April 13, 2017
You don't have to be beaten and dragged off a flight to conclude that flying coach is a miserable experience these days. Wondering who to blame? Here's a suggestion: antitrust lawyers--and yes, we're naming names. The ones who rammed through airline mergers--and the ones at DOJ who took the bait.
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By Andrew Denney | April 12, 2017
There's no word from the White House as to who may be the next U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, but in recent weeks Republican congressmen from the New York metropolitan area have met with possible contenders.
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By Marcia Coyle | April 12, 2017
Thirteen years after suing the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority—and winning a $655 million jury award in 2015—the American victims and estates of victims of a series of bombings and shootings in Israel are asking the justices to overturn a federal appeals court decision that jettisoned them out of court.
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By Cogan Schneier | April 12, 2017
The attorneys, which include civilian and JAG lawyers, say they are forced to work in conditions that expose them to carcinogens while defending a client from the death penalty.
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By R. Robin McDonald | April 12, 2017
When Atlanta attorney Joseph Wargo and partner David Pernini first filed a federal whistleblower case against a private, for-profit university with campuses in Atlanta's northern suburbs, they had no idea the litigation would last more than eight years.
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By Marcia Coyle | April 11, 2017
Just days before Neil Gorsuch will plunge into the U.S. Supreme Court's menu of regulatory challenges, a Washington federal appeals judge on Tuesday turned to the newest justice to bolster her own concerns about the deference that courts give to agencies' interpretation of their rules.
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By Jenna Greene | April 10, 2017
When you are president, people like to sue you. A lot.
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