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Erosion Of The Attorney-Client Privilege And Work Product Doctrine: The ABA And Other Groups Seek Reversal Of Government Waiver Policies
The American Bar Association has joined forces with a broad and diverse coalition of legal and business groups and others in an effort to protect the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine and roll back various federal governmental policies and practices that have seriously eroded...
Read MoreA Bird's Eye View Of International Consumer Data Protection Laws
Strengths And Weaknesses In Global Consumer Data Protection: Balancing Laws, Awareness And Enforcement Approximately nine million American adults were identity-fraud victims last year. While the total number of victims has decreased over the last three years, losses per victim have increased to...
Read MoreCEELI, The Rule Of Law And The Corporate Role
Editor: Bill, please tell our readers about CEELI. Ide: CEELI (an adjunct of the ABA) was started after the fall of the Berlin wall in order to undertake a counterpart of the Marshall Plan for the justice systems in the former Soviet Bloc countries. We're proud that so many of the countries in...
Read MoreChina Trade Export Controls And The New "Catch-All" Regulation
Doing business with the People's Republic of China these days is challenging on many fronts. As Jay Solomon pointed out in a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. is attempting to reconcile its desire - indeed the necessity - to maintain vigorous levels of trade and investment with...
Read MoreFrom BioShield To The PREP Act And Beyond: Developing A Market For Infectious Disease And Bioterror Countermeasures
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP has had the privilege over the last few years of taking a leading role in the development of a market for infectious disease and bioterror countermeasures to protect the health of the public in the United States and abroad. Since even before President Bush's 2003...
Read MorePrivate Equity Opportunities - And Risks - For A Private Equity Practice
Editor: Mr. Cochran, would you tell our readers something about your professional experience? Cochran: Since graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in 1989, my legal practice has focused on corporate finance with a specialty in private equity. I have been resident in Atlanta,...
Read MoreCorporate Governance: Does Mexico Finally Get It?
The tremor emanating from the perfect storm of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and others, resulting in the United States' adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, was felt throughout the world. In an attempt to inspire investor confidence and to align themselves more closely with the corporate governance...
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