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FTC Commissioners Divided on Scope of Investment-Only Exemption to HSR Rules

Briefings /
Ftc

Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom LLP – Matthew P Hendrickson, Rita Sinkfield Belin, Brian C Mohr and Steven Albertson On August 24, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a consent settlement based on an application of the investment-only exemption to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act’s premerger notification requirements. The settlement relates to the 2011 acquisitions of

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I-9 Requirements Do Not Always Exempt Independent Contractors

Briefings, US Law /
Immigration officer

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC – By Yova Borovska – Employers rarely question the general rule that independent contractors are not required to complete a form I-9. Most employers believe that, if an individual is labeled as an independent contractor, a form I-9 is not required.  In our experience defending clients in I-9 enforcement audits by

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Company Required Employee to Take Meds at Job Site as a Condition of Employment, Federal Agency Charged

Briefings /
discrimination law

  DETROIT – Neenah Paper, Inc., a manufacturer of various types of premium paper with a paper mill in Munsing, Mich., violated federal law by discriminating against a production worker because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on August 29. According to EEOC’s lawsuit, Neenah Paper discriminated

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Claims That The Lawyer Attacking Climate Change Scientists is Paid For By Big Coal

LawStars, Lawyers /
christopher horner attorney

Harassing scientists over climate change issues is something that a lawyer who is alleged paid for by major coal companies has been doing on US television and elsewhere, according to recent reports. Attorney Christopher Horner is a regular guest on Fox News and CNN where he has derided scientists on climate change issues, calling them

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Baker & McKenzie Announce Revenues of $2.43 billion . . And More Women

Lawyers /
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Baker & McKenzie announces higher women promotions and all-time high productivity.   Revenues up 2.2% Total productivity hits an all time high – up 5% Record number of partner promotions  – over 40% are women Good growth expected in Fiscal Year 2016 Baker & McKenzie, the world’s premier global law firm, has announced global revenues

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“Brazen” Concealing of Art and Antiques From Courts, SEC and Others Leads to Arrest

Law Firms /
Sec

    Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced today that ROBERT A.

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Former JP Morgan Analyst and His Friends Charged With Insider Trading

Press Releases /
Insider trading

        LOS ANGELES – An analyst with J.P. Morgan Securities and two longtime friends were taken into custody this morning after being charged in a federal grand jury indictment that alleges they participated in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $600,000 in illicit profits.         Ashish Aggarwal, 27, of San Francisco; Shahriyar Bolandian,

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The Growth of Synthetic Cannabis – “Spice” – And A Spice Kingpin is Sentenced

Press Releases /
Spice ban

Prosecutions represent one of the most significant investigations to date in the United States regarding synthetic cannabinoid trafficking which resulted in more than 220 Spice-related emergency room visits in Colorado in the Fall of 2013 DENVER – U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer today sentenced John Bowan, age 68, of Las Vegas to 60

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