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 to be in perfect compliance with European Union data privacy regulations. Yet nearly every company doing business in the EU has to comply. […]
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 News Corp’s legal department. Since then, News has brought in a number of heavy hitters to cover them, including immediately hiring Mark Mendelsohn from Paul […]
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 genes (G551D) that cause Cystic Fibrosis, it brings hope. Respiratory illnesses are horribly painful and I hope that the relief this provides […]
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 they caused no harm. One of the charges the investigative judge is bringing against him is involuntary homicide–this was the basis of his detention […]
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 cookies on their devices by sites they visit. According to the Directive, neither a warning in the site’s Terms of Service (ToS) or acceptance through browser […]
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 distributors. Do you want to know the 5 secrets to how you can ensure competition law compliance and maintain friendly relations with the […]
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