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Implementing the NIST Privacy Framework – Protect Function

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This is the final installment in a series of articles on the core functions of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Privacy Framework where we cover the Protect function. As previously published in an...more

BCLP

FCPA: 2017 Mid-Year Review Webinar

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Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was a high priority for the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2016. There's interest in how the new administration could impact enforcement as...more

Benesch

3D Printing News: Recent M&A Activity; Copyright’s Conceptual Separability Test; Expiring Patents

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Here are recent and significant M&A deals in the 3D space. In September, GE acquired SLM Solutions and Arcam, reportedly spending $1.4 billion for both. Arcam provides a cost-efficient additive manufacturing solution...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments for January 2015

This installment of MoFo’s Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments highlights important Department of Justice (DOJ) personnel changes, an increase in government resources being dedicated to FCPA enforcement...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Review of Recent Whistleblower Developments

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SEC Whistleblower Office 2014 Annual Report Details Rising Number of Tips and Increasing Awards - On November 17, 2014, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Whistleblower Office issued its Fiscal Year 2014...more

The Volkov Law Group

Pow! Whack! Slam! Bam! – DOJ Finishes the FCPA Year with a Bang

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Giving away my old age, we all loved the 1960s Batman series starring Adam West. Thanks to the Batman show we were given a long list of words to underscore Batman and Robin’s slugfests with the weekly villain (e.g. Penguin,...more

Fisher Phillips

Court Denies Extraterritorial Application of the Dodd-Frank Act's Whistleblowing Provisions

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On August 14, 2014, in Liu Meng-Lin v. Siemens AG, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously held that the whistleblowing provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...more

Brooks Pierce

One More Thing about Liu v. Siemens, the Foreign Whistleblower Case

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Last week I wrote about the Second Circuit’s recent decision in Liu v. Siemens AG, in which the court held that the Dodd-Frank Act’s anti-retaliation provisions do not apply to whistleblowers overseas. As I think about it,...more

Brooks Pierce

Freedom to Retaliate against Foreign Whistleblowers May Not Be as Much Fun as It First Appears

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What I’m about to say is grossly oversimplified, but here goes: The Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower provisions have two primary prongs. The first says that an individual who voluntarily provides the SEC with original...more

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation

Second Circuit Holds Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provision Does Not Apply Extraterritorially

Last week, in Liu v. Siemens, AG, the Second Circuit held that the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower retaliation provision (15 U.S.C. 78u-6(h)(1)) does not apply extraterritorially, in the first Second Circuit decision to...more

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