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Putting The Pieces Together: Integrated Due Diligence Programs

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

One of the many challenges in the compliance profession centers on coordination and integration. There are plenty of compliance experts who can describe a perfect world – how to design a specific program and procedures to implement the program....

OSHA Combustible Dust Standard On The Horizon – What Every Industry Should Know

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

Combustible dust, it is not the most glamorous of topics but it is an important one. Why is it important? It is important because between 1980 and 2005, combustible dust incidents claimed the lives of 119 workers and injured another 718. There is...

A Whale Of A Tale: JPMorgan Accepts Fault

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

In a legal and regulatory scandal once described by JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon as a tempest in a teapot, the bank agreed in October to pay a $100 million fine and admit wrongdoing, which is an unprecedented move the bank greatly sought to avoid....

CPUC Extends Comment Period to Friday on Net-Energy Metering Transition: Law Impacts Public Agencies With Renewable Energy Projects That Net-Energy Meter

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) granted a one-week extension until December 13 for interested parties to submit comments on establishing a transition period under the newly signed Assembly Bill 327 (AB 327). Comments were originally...

Admit-Deny Placeholder

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

First, the kerfuffle surrounding the Citi matter has wholly obfuscated the SEC staff’s achievement. Understand that these structured products cases are extremely complicated. Even when assisted by whistleblowers, the facts do not leap off the page....

Don't Lose Your Priority in 2014 – Australian Transitional Perfection of Security Interests to Expire!

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

Many companies doing business in Australia have been caught unaware of an impending impactof the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (PPSA). In considering the effect of the PPSA on your business, it is critical that you act now to assess...

[Video] Richard Hsu on Creating Videos to Promote Your Law Practice - LMA Tech 2013 Replay

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

In this LMA Tech Replay, listen to IP attorney Richard Hsu, partner at Shearman & Sterling, tell the LMA Tech 2013 audience how he uses video and his One Page blog to promote his particular legal practice. Richard handles complex IP matters in M&A...

Standing qua Mortgagee: Challenging the Assignment of a Mortgage in Federal Court

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

Mortgages are big business. When mortgages are assigned, however, the mortgagor often is a non-party to the assignment. Thus, within certain jurisdictions, mortgagors have historically lacked the requisite standing to challenge the validity of the...

Property crime rose in California after release of 18,000 nonviolent offenders

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

California’s "public safety realignment," under a 2011 law passed in response to a federal court order concerning overcrowded prisons, has put 18,000 nonviolent offenders back on the streets.

NMLS Issues Third Quarter 2013 Licensing Report

By EsqSocial Corporation 10/12/13

The NMLS reported 16,076 state-licensed mortgage companies registered in the NMLS for the quarter that ended September 30, 2013, a decrease of 2 percent from 16,397 compared to the third quarter of 2012. During the same period, the number of licenses...

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