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Finance

Long Odds: Appealing A Delisting Decision To The SEC

Sometimes you know the odds are long, and success for the other side is supposed to be a preordained walk-over victory. When a client has been wronged, however, you need to ignore the odds and trust that rational minds will prevail. Recently, we had the chance to represent CleanTech Innovations,...

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Law Enforcement

Making Government More Accountable

Editor: Please tell me about your practice at Stradley Ronon. Myers: In the main, I am a civil litigator who practices in the areas of appellate litigation, state government litigation, and insurance litigation. However, an interesting and significant part of my practice focuses on political...

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Healthcare

OIG Issues 2013 Guidance On Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol

Charged with protecting the integrity of federal healthcare funds, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has allowed parties in violation of the law to self-report their actions under its self-disclosure protocol (SDP) as a method of...

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Board of Directors

Considering A Hybrid? Pennsylvania Adopts New Model of Business Entity – The “Benefit Corporation”

Earlier this year, Pennsylvania joined a growing number of states in adopting a new form of business entity – the “benefit corporation.”[1] Benefit corporations are for-profit corporations that seek to advance a socially conscious or environmentally concerned objective while at...

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Litigation

Delaware Chancery Court Updates: Back to Basics – Jurisdiction And Confidentiality

The Delaware Chancery Court issued two recent opinions that provide helpful guidance to practitioners and reaffirm certain basic principles of Chancery Court practice. On April 2, in Charlotte Broadcasting, LLC et al. v. Davis Broadcasting of Atlanta LLC, the Court reminded litigants of the...

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Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

CPR Patent Mediation Task Force Findings And Recommendations

  Under the leadership of President and CEO Kathleen A. Bryan, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) formed a Patent Mediation Task Force to analyze methods and solutions for improving the use and efficiency of mediation in patent disputes. The chair of...

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Technology

To Tweet Or Not To Tweet: FFIEC Issues Proposed Guidance On Social Media

Financial institutions have significantly increased their online presence and suite of services in recent years, and, in response to that trend, on January 17, 2013, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued proposed guidance on risk management for financial...

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