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Generating Buzz Without Being Stung: Stay on the right side of the FTC with these 17 marketing guidelines
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel November 2015 A good marketing department knows how to generate product buzz by leveraging influencers and promotions. The challenge is to avoid being stung by the Federal Trade Commission’s Endorsement Guides (available at www.ftc.gov), other regulations and...
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Delaware – From Hub to Hotbed: Emergence as life sciences player augments traditional role as incorporation capital
MCC: Delaware has long been regarded as the epicenter of corporate law developments, but not as much relative to life sciences and intellectual property. Is that changing and, if so, why? Kelly: It’s not up there yet with Boston or San Francisco, but it’s growing sharply and...
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Insurance for Food Contamination and Recall Events
The current climate of aggressive regulatory action by the FDA creates increased exposure for American businesses to liability for food contamination and recalls. A well-designed insurance portfolio may provide relief in the face of contamination and food recall events, but obstacles to coverage...
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Better SAFE Than Sorry? A New Way to Finance Start-ups
MCC: In a well-received client alert, you discuss a burgeoning interest in Simple Agreements for Future Equity, or SAFEs, in the start-up investment space. Would you kick off this discussion by telling us what a SAFE is? Sorin: Sure. A SAFE is a new instrument or a new mechanism to raise...
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Public-Private Collaboration: Smart Energy Policy
Editor: You served as chief counsel to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and as policy advisor for energy in the administration of Governor Chris Christie. As a former government insider, can you please describe the policymaking process? Caliguire: When I started in Governor Christie...
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Rebuilding Lives After Wrongful Conviction
The number of individuals released from prison following wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration is staggering. Since the first DNA exoneration 25 years ago, 321 individuals from 38 states have been exonerated through the use of DNA evidence.[1] The wrongs that they suffer do not end when...
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So You Want To Shut Down Your Coal-Fired Power Plant?
For the last five or so years, coal-fired power generation (CFPG) plants have been under assault, primarily from federal regulatory efforts aimed at drastically reducing environmental impacts from those plants. These regulatory restrictions range from limiting emissions of sulfur oxide (SOX),...
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