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Posted in Compliance, Data privacy, EU Commission, Uncategorized

What you don’t know about EU DATA PRIVACY law and why you need to know it today.

Outside a select group of specialists in IT law (and the even more limited and select group of data privacy law specialists), few company advisors or corporate legal departments truly understand how

Posted in Competition law, Compliance, fcpa, Sarbanes-Oxley, Uncategorized

The Compliance Matrix Graphic

lynn
posted on 19 February 201221 February 2012
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Posted in Compliance, Corruption, fcpa, Uncategorized

US DOJ brings in FBI to investigate News Corp bribes to Scotland Yard.

lynn
posted on 8 February 20129 February 2012
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When details emerged last July that employees of News International (the press arm of News Corp) had possibly bribed 5 Scotland Yard police officers, the FCPA red alert must surely have sounded in

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US F.D.A. Approves Ivacaftor

Bravo to Vertex for bringing this to market. Molecules to address the genetic basis of a disease are incredibly expensive to develop and market. Even though this only addresses one of the mutated

Posted in Compliance, MDD, Uncategorized

PIP founder arrested at home. Denies industrial silicone was harmful.

lynn
posted on 26 January 201227 January 2012
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Jean-Claude Mas was reported arrested this morning at dawn according to France Info radio. He admits using unapproved for human use industrial grade silicone in his breast implants but claims that

Posted in Compliance, Opinion, Uncategorized

EU Telecoms Package Directive and Cookies: Some compliance tips.

lynn
posted on 25 January 201227 January 2012
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The French Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) recently published some advice on how to implement the new requirement that web site users consent to the placement of

Posted in Competition law, Compliance, Uncategorized

Facing inquiries?

lynn
posted on 12 January 201215 January 2012
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You have had a lot of success in the marketplace and you may in fact be the market leader. With success comes responsibility–the obligation to engage in fair competition and to respect your