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If an outright ban of Bitcoin is not the correct approach, what is? More to the point, what does Bitcoin (and virtual currency in general) need to for legitimacy?...
By: JD Supra Perspectives

The Oscars are a great excuse to get your friends together and throw a fabulous party. But social hosts will want to take a few precautions to avoid potential legal drama. We know you're probably busy with party preps, so here are nine legal tips to make sure your Oscars......

Proposals for reforming the patent system are popular topics these days. One of the ideas floating around is that the number of patents issued, or possibly the number of patent applications accepted, per year should be limited. The possible...

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concludes that raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour could reduce employment by 500,000 jobs....
By: XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis

Patent Owners finally received some good news after a string of pro-Petitioner rulings by the PTAB that saw all challenged claims wiped out in the first 8 Final Written Decisions by the Board. In Microsoft Corp. v. Proxyconn, Inc., IPR 2012-00026...

You are the HR leader for your organization. Whether you are an executive, a human resources professional, an attorney, an owner, or – in many cases – hold more than one of these titles, when HR issues arise, they come to you....

The arrival of David Beckham in Miami has incited a new kind of soccer fever in the city known to frequent soccer games in crowds of over 70,000. Most newsworthy right now is the talk of building a soccer stadium in Miami. The Miami Herald reports...

Physicians who were practicing in the 1990s were involved in numerous attempts to organize themselves in order to be able to participate in and even financially survive the onslaught of managed care delivery systems. The new systems were attempting...

On February 18, the Fed issued a final rule which establishes enhanced supervision standards for large U.S. bank holding companies and foreign banking organizations, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act. The final rule will be effective for U.S....

In Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper (Jan. 27, 2014), the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that airlines are entitled to civil immunity for reporting suspicious behavior to the TSA, provided their reports are not “materially false.”...

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