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OCC Names Deputy Comptroller For Large Bank Supervision

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

On January 29, the OCC announced that Molly Scherf will serve as Deputy Comptroller for Large Bank Supervision with responsibility for overseeing the Large Bank lead experts, shared national credit, data analytics, and systems teams....

Do These Sequence Analysis Method Patents Satisfy Section 101?

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

According to an article on Law360, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is challenging the validity of two Genetic Technologies Ltd. patents on the basis that the claimed intron sequence analysis methods recite natural phenomena that do not satisfy the...

Sedgwick to move back-office operations from San Francisco to Kansas City

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

A 370-attorney longtime San Francisco-based law firm is moving its back-office functions to downtown Kansas City, Mo. Sedgwick says the move will take place in June, and the new facility will be fully operational by September, the Kansas City Star reports.

Global HR Hot Topic—February 2014: International Outsourcing and Offshoring: An Employment Law Checklist

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

Belgium's Roger Blanpain, perhaps the world's preeminent professor of international employment law, once declared that "we live in an information society, driven by knowledge in action.…[Services] can be provided via the information highways from...

License Plate Readers - A “Real-Time” Tool For Law Enforcement

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

Most people would agree the chances of solving a crime and catching a felon dramatically increase if law enforcement officials are armed with tools, such as license plate readers, which can scan thousands of license plates and immediately pinpoint...

Searching For Real Estate Investment: Investing In UK Core Cities

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

The UK is the one of the world’s deepest and most liquid pools of investable real estate and has long been regarded a safe investment environment by investors. Mirroring the improvement in the UK economy as a whole, the pace of the UK’s commercial...

Top 5 gaming law takeaways from ICE gaming conference!

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

What will be the outcome of the battle between .COM and .Country? Is social gaming a must-have for operators? How can we invest in the current regulatory uncertainty? These are some of the gaming law topics that I had the opportunity to discuss...

Temporary Iran Sanctions Relief

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

Relief is very limited and alleviates threat of sanctions regarding transactions by non-U.S. or foreign persons. On January 30, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published guidance in the Federal...

‘Country of Origin’ Compliance: The Top 10 Things Pharmaceutical Companies Need to Know

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

What is the “country of origin” for the drugs you manufacture? This question arises every time a pharmaceutical company labels a drug, imports it, exports it, markets it, or sells it to the U.S. government. Unfortunately, the answer to this question...

New Jersey Enacts Law Banning Pregnancy Bias in the Workplace

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/02/14

In January 2014, New Jersey continued its recent trend of legislative actions addressing women’s health and safety issues by enacting New Jersey’s Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“Pregnancy Act”). This act expressly bans pregnancy discrimination and...

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