In the past few years, former employees are more litigious, readily filing charges of discrimination or lawsuits. Why? Perhaps it is because, with...

On February 4, 2013, a divided California Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated ruling addressing the scope of the state's landmark privacy law that prohibits...

On November 15, 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) concerning the Commission's efforts to improve price...

Biological data related to health care is a valuable commodity. Laws, including bankruptcy law, are not keeping up with the rate of technological change and...

On January 30, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") announced that it will hold a public meeting regarding two rules recently proposed under the Food...

As the 2013 annual meeting proxy season gets underway, companies should be aware of a new litigation tactic being pursued by certain shareholder class action plaintiffs...

This first installment in our series of Sunshine Act Forecasts highlights some of the key clarifications and other changes finalized in Friday's rule publication. ...

On January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the deadline for providers to file Medicare reimbursement appeals is not eligible for equitable tolling.  The...

The long-awaited final rule to the Physician Payments Sunshine Act has been released, and is available for review here . Under the final rule, the collection...

Our Middle East team contributed an important chapter to the latest edition of The Dispute Resolution Review. Focusing on Saudia Arabia, our arbitration...

This past Wednesday a bi-partisan group of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill, (H.R. 351) which if enacted as proposed, would repeal the...

Space limitations guide us to discuss only a few new cases arising from energy industry activities, so we will highlight those that will likely stir the pot of energy...

With the U.S. seemingly in the middle of an energy boom, power lawyers are seeing a wave of transactions, some of which involve the purchase and sale of existing power...

Resolving a split between California appellate and federal courts, the California Supreme Court, in Aryeh v. Canon Bus. Sols., Inc., Case No. 8184929 (Jan. 24, 2013),...

On January 2, 2013, Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") published proposed regulations with respect to the employer "shared responsibility&quo...