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What to do if You Receive an IRS Audit Notification Letter 0724

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What should you do if you receive an IRS audit notification letter? Why should you consider engaging an experienced IRS audit and tax attorney who represents U.S. taxpayers facing an IRS audit or any other federal or state...more

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IRS Audit Doesnt Have to Be a Nightmare

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An IRS audit doesn’t have to be a nightmare of financial and emotional fear. How do most US taxpayers react when they receive an audit letter from the IRS? What are the actions you can take to not only improve the likelihood...more

Epstein Becker & Green

HRSA Initiates Audits and Requires Return of Provider Relief Funds

Throughout the course of the pandemic, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) distributed $178 billion in Provider Relief Funds (PRF) to hospitals and health care providers.  The Public Health Emergency has...more

Snell & Wilmer

Walking the Regulatory Tightrope: The Attorney-Client Privilege in an Intertwined World

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Whether or not a client is involved in civil litigation, the target of a grand jury subpoena or some other request to produce documents, the attorney-client privilege serves as a powerful tool to shield sensitive matters from...more

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Pay Audits: Factors Employers Should Consider to Maintain and Protect Privileges

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​​​​​​​Companies conduct pay audits for a variety of reasons—whether it's to ensure the company is meeting certain benchmarks, to comply with audit requirements under state or federal laws, to promote or improve workplace...more

K&L Gates LLP

Update: OFCCP Clarifies Position in Favor of Attorney-Client Privilege in Revised Pay Equity Directive

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Effective 18 August 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP) revised Directive 2022-01 on “Advancing Pay Equity Through Compensation Analysis” (the Revised Directive) to provide further explanation of how OFCCP...more

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OFCCP Revises Its Pay Equity Directive

As we previously reported, in March of this year, OFCCP issued its first directive of the Biden Administration – Directive 2022-01 (the “Directive”) – which addressed the issue of contractors’ obligations to conduct analyses...more

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OFCCP Walks Back Portions of Its Controversial Pay Equity Directive, But Contractors Must Still Focus on Proactively Ensuring...

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In March 2022, we reported on a controversial directive issued by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) that appeared to assert, for the first time, that federal contractors and subcontractors are...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

OFCCP softens controversial Directive on “pay equity” audits

Some relatively good news from the OFCCP. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs revised its Directive around contractors’ evaluations of their compensation systems. Directive 2022-01, formerly titled “Pay...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

New guidance on the attorney-client privilege & work product status of pay equity audits

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If your college or university maintains contracts with the federal government, you are likely aware of the possibility that the Department of Labor, through its Office of Federal Contract Compliance (“OFCCP”), may assess...more

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA

OFCCP Mandates Contractors Conduct, Share Pay Equity Analyses

Federal contractors will soon be facing new pay equity disclosure requirements under a directive issued by the Office of Federal Contracts Compliance Programs (OFCCP). The OFCCP announced that it will require contractors to...more

Perkins Coie

OFCCP Directive on Internal Pay Equity Audits Takes on Privilege Claims

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Federal contractors who conduct pay equity audits under attorney-client and work product privileges face increased risks under a new directive by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

International Tax Disputes Insights Newsletter (Spring 2021)

Our inaugural issue focuses on a truly transnational and important rule of law: the attorney-client privilege and related protections against disclosure. While this is a topic common to all areas of law, the tax arena at...more

Fisher Phillips

Federal Court Provides 5-Step Roadmap For Ensuring Your Pay Equity Audits Are Confidential

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Employers conducting internal pay equity audits now have a roadmap for ensuring that their pay equity audits remain confidential in the wake of pay equity litigation. Thanks to a recent federal court ruling from an Oregon...more

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Pay Equity FAQs, Topics, and Trends

The trend of increased legislation, regulation, and corporate initiatives focused on identifying and correcting pay disparities in the workplace has continued to grow. In this episode, Liz Washko discusses recent developments...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

DOJ Issues New FCPA Policy Offering Incentives to Encourage Disclosure of Foreign Bribery and Corruption Misconduct

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On November 29, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was issuing a new enforcement policy covering its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The...more

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Medical Litigation Newsletter - December 2016

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Defending Audits Before They Happen: A Practical Guide to Documenting to Sustain A Challenge to E/M Codes - Although many believe malpractice suits to be the primary risk-management issue facing healthcare providers, an...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Recurring Issues in Accounting for Litigation Contingencies

Certain questions seem to recur when it comes to outside counsel’s communications with a company’s auditors about potential exposures as a result of litigation or regulatory/enforcement matters and the underlying accounting...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Increasing Legal Scrutiny of Website Accessibility in the Real Estate Industry

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From fair housing laws to licensing requirements, the real estate industry is accustomed to navigating various legal constraints and requirements. However, as a result of current ambiguity in the law, class action lawsuits...more

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Second Circuit Upholds Common-Interest Privilege for Borrower’s Sharing of Legal Advice with Consortium of Lenders

The Second Circuit held last week that a borrower did not waive the attorney-client privilege by providing documents to a consortium of lender banks that shared a common legal interest with the borrower in the tax treatment...more

Locke Lord LLP

Internal Investigations: The Three C’s – Confidence. Credibility. Cost.

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In this issue: - THE THREE C’S — CONFIDENCE, CREDIBILITY AND COST - WHO CONDUCTS THE INVESTIGATION? - SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION - MINDSET AT THE OUTSET OF AN INVESTIGATION - THE NEED FOR SPEED ...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Court Condemns Law Firm's Privilege Claim as "Subterfuge": Part II

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Last week's Privilege Point described an outside regulatory compliance consultant's work for a company which worried about its non-compliant billing practices and about possible litigation, that consultant's later agreement...more

BakerHostetler

Government Contracts Quarterly Update - July 2014

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The Government Contracts Quarterly Update is published by BakerHostetler’s Government Contracts Practice team to inform our clients and friends of the latest developments in federal government contracting. Topics will...more

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Compliance Audit Information May Not Be Attorney Client Privileged

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Attorneys routinely advise clients conducting audits and investigations that the audit or investigation should be conducted by outside counsel in order to establish attorney client privilege. ...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Legislative Update: New Texas Laws Affecting the Environment or Environmental Regulation

This Texas legislative session brought several notable environment- and energy-related changes. The major standouts are culled and summarized in this Pillsbury Legislative Update....more

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