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How to make the EEOC love you (retaliation edition)

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/09/16

Employers, imagine that a retaliation charge has been filed against your company. What can you do to make the EEOC investigator love you? Late last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its final Enforcement Guidance on...

New regulations on syndicated lending in Vietnam

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/09/16

From 30 June 2016, an amendment to the co-financing regulations requires the paying agent to be an onshore credit institution, “co-financing agreements” are now required to be entered into between the lenders for offshore syndicated loans in addition...

Law firm says it got nearly 26,000 calls after multimillion-dollar talcum powder verdicts

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/09/16

Talcum powder with an X drawn in it

[Video] Ten Hallmarks of an Effective Compliance Program-Hallmark 10

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/09/16

In this final podcast in my 10 part series on the Ten Hallmarks of an Effective Compliance program, I review Hallmark 10-mergers and acquisitions under a best practices compliance program....
By: Thomas Fox

Suits seek to block Arkansas referendum that would cap attorney fees and damages in medical cases

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/09/16

Financial Services Weekly News - August 2016 #5

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/09/16

Editor's Note - Investment Advisers Breathe a Sigh of Relief. On Thursday, August 25, the federal district court in New Jersey ruled after a 26-day trial in favor of AXA Equitable Insurance Company and against the shareholders who had brought a...

Planning, Tendering and Closing Global District Energy Projects

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/09/16

The district energy industry has received a global boost through a global initiative supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The UNEP has called for governments, state owned enterprises and procuring authorities all around the...

Corporate Investigations and White Collar Defense - August 2016

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/09/16

Spotlight on the False Claims Act - Why it matters: This month, we review a recent Ninth Circuit case that allowed a qui tam relator’s action against various Medicare Advantage organizations to proceed, holding that the relator had adequately...

Patent Infringement Claim Exempts Related Counterclaims from Mandatory Arbitration

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/09/16

In reviewing the scope of an arbitration agreement that was part of a supply agreement, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision, determining that the defendant’s breach of contract counterclaims were...

Dropbox.com: Change Passwords Immediately

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/09/16

You and your business may use the cloud vendor Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) to store or transfer files, work-related documents, or personal information (or may have used it to transfer such data in the past)....

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