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Are You Leaving Some Of Your Most Important Assets Unprotected? – Trade Secrets

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Trade secrets can be some of the most valuable assets a company has and it is important put procedures in place to safeguard this information. The Uniform Trade Secrets Act, adhered to by a majority of states, defines trade secrets as information...

Activists Increasingly Seek a “Second Bite at the Apple”

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

In recent proxy seasons we have noticed an increase in the frequency of “second bite” proxy contests. These situations can take various forms, including (i) a second proxy contest by an activist that reached a settlement with the company in a prior...

Soliciting a Prostitute Is Soliciting a Problem

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

This summer, police conducted separate sting operations in three northwest Ohio hotels to catch suspects soliciting prostitutes. All told, the police arrested 21 people who were charged with solicitation....

Delaware Reigns in Shareholder Attacks on Weak Fairness Opinions

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Financial advisors should remain keenly aware that, in recent years, plaintiffs and courts have been more carefully scrutinizing fairness opinions rendered in the context of public M&A transactions. Post-Great Recession, the trend in fairness...

Third Circuit Clarifies Federal Court Jurisdiction Surrounding Remand to State Court - Agostini v. Piper Aircraft Corp., No. 12-2098, --- F.3d --- (3d Cir. Sept. 5, 2013)

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The Third Circuit recently clarified the limits of its own jurisdiction, and that of the district court, in connection with orders remanding cases to state court. The court held a firm line on the reviewability of such orders, ruling that just as it...

Recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decision Brings Certainty To Title Companies And Mortgage Lenders

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court’s decision, coupled with the Homeowner Assistance Settlement Act, is welcome news to the title industry and mortgage lenders throughout Pennsylvania. On September 25, 2013, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its...

California Mandates More Transparency: Time to Update Your Privacy Policy

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

California has long been the national leader in addressing online and mobile privacy issues. Influenced by the inclusion of the right of privacy as an inalienable right of its citizens guaranteed by the State Constitution, California enacted the...

A Turkey of a Trademark: Why you can’t have “Baked Tam” for Thanksgiving

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from miser to profligate is marked by his purchase of a turkey for the Cratchit family. Turkey used to be a luxury food, in most households suitable only for special occasions....

Billion Dollar Baby: The Costs of Medicaid Fraud

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

A couple from Dunn, North Carolina is one of the most recent casualties of prosecutors’ push to crack down on Medicaid fraud, a crime that costs taxpayers and the government more than a billion dollars each year and nets more than 1,000 convictions....

The CFPB's Supervisory and Enforcement Functions and How They Work Together

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

In an October 9 speech to the FDIC’s Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, Steve Antonakes, the Deputy Director of the CFPB and also the Associate Director of the CFPB’s Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending (SEFL) Unit, discussed the CFPB’s...

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