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Focus Newsletter - Winter 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

In this issue: - On Being “Mid-Sized” and the Future of Law Practice - 2014 Message from the Managing Partner - Amazing Clients: Broadview Ventures, Inc. - "Pumping Up Promising Treatments for Heart Disease Patients" - "Low-Cost Borrowing...

Cybersecurity: Coming Soon to a Government Contract Near You

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

Do you want to be eligible for government contracts in the future? Per President Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order, a DoD and GSA joint working group recently recommended how cybersecurity can be implemented in federal acquisitions. The White...

Take Them to District Court and You’ll Have to Pay the Lawyers - Shammas v. Focarino

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

Addressing for the first time whether attorneys’ fees are included in the statute, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held that “all expenses of the proceedings” under 15 U.S.C.§ 1071(b)(3) includes attorneys’ fees and...

Justices Scoff at Payment for Don and Doff

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

Employees who spend time putting on and taking off protective clothes, including flame-retardant outerwear, gloves, boot and hardhats, do not have to be paid for that time when it occurs before and after the work day, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled....

Consolidated Appropriations Act Provides for Public Access to Federal Research

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

Last month, President Obama signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, which makes consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014. One provision of the 639-page Act, which can be found in Division B (concerning...

Board Will Not Fill In Evidentiary Gaps in Inter Partes Review Petition

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

In a victory for Patent Owner, Zerto was unable to get any of 13 challenged claims of an EMC Israel Development Center patent into a trial for inter partes review, in Zerto, Inc. v. EMC Israel Development Center, Ltd., (IPR2013-00458), involving U.S....

Sued by CACH, LLC? Want Your Day in Court? You May Not Get It.

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

I recently met with a family who had been served with a debt collection lawsuit by CACH, LLC. They were low on money and decided that they would attempt to handle the case themselves. Their thinking was if they could only get the case in front of...

Ex-lawyer disbarred for $1B scheme testifies in shackles for former colleague facing wire fraud case

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

A once-prominent Florida lawyer—now disbarred and serving a 50-year prison term while under the federal witness protection program—Scott Rothstein testified Wednesday in handcuffs and leg irons at the wire fraud conspiracy trial of an attorney who worked at his Fort Lauderdale

Unmanned Aircraft and Privacy Law: A Technological Leap Into A Legal Gap

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

The future for domestic drones is tantalizingly close and unquestionably promising. With their ability to hover, occupy uncommon vantage points, and transport a wide range of payloads, drones (also called unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs) can...

New Oklahoma security law requires fingerprint-based background checks on certain healthcare employees: Staggered implementation begins March 1

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/14

Beginning March 1, 2014, and phasing in over the next several months, a new Oklahoma law requires certain long-term care, residential, and health care providers to perform eligibility screening and national fingerprint-based background checks prior...

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