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"The Integrity Of The Judicial Process Is Something In Which We All Have A Stake"
Editor: Mr. Pollack, would you tell our readers something about your professional experience and how you came to Kelley Drye Collier Shannon? Pollack: I am a litigator, and my practice is primarily in the area of white collar criminal defense. I also do some work in related areas, such as SEC...
Read MoreKelley Drye's Bridge To India
Editor: Mr. Wakhariya, would you tell our readers something about your background? Wakhariya: I am an Indian national. During law school in India, I joined a firm in Mumbai - then called Bombay - where my father was a senior partner. I had always wanted to pursue a masters program abroad, and I...
Read MoreProper Payroll Practices Continue To Challenge Employers Large & Small
National retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co. recently paid $15 million to settle a federal class action lawsuit where it was accused of failing to pay overtime to 16,000 service technicians for time they spent traveling to work assignments, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). A...
Read MoreHow U.S. Exporters Can Successfully Defend Against Developing Countries' Increased Resort To the Antidumping Remedy
Since the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created in 1995, major developing countries such as India and China have been required to eliminate or reduce a number of the trade barriers - such as high normal duties and low quotas - they had used to protect their domestic industries from foreign...
Read MoreSpecial Purpose Acquisition Corporations: Specs to Consider When Structuring Your SPAC - Part II
A special purpose acquisition corporation, commonly known as a "SPAC," and formally a "development stage company," is a corporation formed for the purpose of raising capital through an initial public offering ("IPO") of its securities, in order to fund an acquisition of an existing operating...
Read MoreIgnore Regulatory Costs At Your Peril: The Strange (And Evolving) Case Of The Federal Universal Service Fund
Part of a corporate counsel's job description is to monitor changes in the law. Every day your company is relying upon you to evaluate changes in the legal landscape and translate how those changes affect your company's financial health. But, to what degree is your company - and more specifically,...
Read MoreAdvanced Issues In Licensing - Just A Bunch Of BS
With the ever-growing use of technology and intellectual property ("IP") in the corporate world, licensing has become what I like to call "mainstreamed" in recent years for the in-house practitioner. Indeed, you would be hard-pressed not to find some element of licensing in a majority of commercial...
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