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A New Paradigm for Security and Privacy in Health Care: A panel discussion takes on some of the industry’s biggest challenges
Given the current state of affairs in Washington, D.C., it would be a significant understatement to say that the direction of the U.S. health care system is unclear. However, even in these unpredictable times, it is apparent that certain trends in the industry will continue unabated. It was against...
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New Risks – and 3 Tips – for Patent Holders in China: Chinese companies have aggressively grown their portfolios
The Chinese intellectual property sector has been changing and growing for years, but few people would tell you so. The country has long been labeled as an IP rights violator and generally carries a bad reputation in its handling of copyrights. But Chinese companies are becoming more aggressive in...
Read MoreReforming The Major Credit Rating Agencies: What Hath The SEC Wrought?
The three major Credit Rating Agencies ("CRAs") - Standard and Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings - have been subject to scalding criticism for issuing misleading ratings favoring structured investment products like mortgage-backed securities that were issued by firms which paid...
Read MoreRecent Trends In Rule 23 Class Certification Expert Analyses
Almost a decade into the new millennium, the right of parties to a rigorous class-certification contest is increasingly entrenched in most federal circuits and many states, and indeed is appearing in other countries, such as Canada. It is also spreading to new causes of action. For some such...
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