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As the whole world counts down to the US election, Tom and Jay are back to look at top compliance articles and stories which caught their eye this week....
By: Thomas Fox

We have been getting accountability all wrong in the compliance profession. It's not a set of tasks - it's a way of thinking and it has to come from the heart as well as the head.

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: 1. Wells Fargo shares hit lowest since 2009. (WeCruitr) 2. Leon Black says he did nothing inappropriate with Epstein. (WSJ) 3. College football in chaos over Coronavirus. (WSJ) 4. Trump’s illegal actions against EEOC training draws business scrutiny.

On October 21, 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed the Due Process Protections Act, S. 1380, which provides additional protections for criminal defendants’ due process right to receive material exculpatory evidence from prosecutors before trial under Brady v.

The legal profession likes to present the façade of unwavering perfection, which is why an accusation of malpractice can be particularly unsettling for the attorney at whom it is lodged.

The October 2020 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses a trademark litigation case in the cannabis consumer goods space and the open gTLD sunrise periods.

Since I noted earlier this week the announcement by ConocoPhillips that its “ambition” is to reach net-zero carbon for its own operations by 2045-2055, it seemed appropriate also to note that BLM has now approved the Willow Master Development Plan, which will authorize ConocoPhillips to produce a

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”), which was expanded by the Paycheck Protection & Health Care Enhancement Act, provides more than $650 billion in loans for small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Nearly a year ago, we previewed the U.S. Supreme Court’s then-upcoming decision in Romag Fasteners, Inc. v.

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