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Everyone should have one. If you need more convincing, please read my post, or any post for that matter, about the record $14 million award the SEC recently made to a whistleblower who helped to uncover investment fraud. Violations of securities...

If you are confused about the difference between a will and a trust, you are not alone. Both documents help protect families and indicate who will receive certain assets and make decisions upon a family member’s death. However, wills and trusts...

In this opinion, the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware affirmed the Court of Chancery’s judgment granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, rejecting a claim by a stockholder...

One of Philadelphia's best-known law firms has planted its flag in Silicon Valley. Pepper Hamilton announced Tuesday that three intellectual property partners from Goodwin Procter have opened the firm's new Redwood City, Calif., office, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.

Although the 2012 and 2013 proxy seasons saw increased (and highly publicized) shareholder activism across a range of industries, that trend has not yet made its way to the U.S. banking industry. Over the last two proxy seasons, aside from Nelson...

Small business owners: Need some holiday advertising tips for Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, or the rest of the shopping season? With Thanksgiving just a few weeks away, it's time to prepare for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.

The Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Labor, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have jointly released final regulations and new FAQs implementing the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity...

It’s a problem that has vexed website owners since the days of the dot-com boom – how to make certain user-generated content available to users or subscribers, but also prevent competitors and other unauthorized parties from scraping, linking to or...

On November 1, the Fed issued supervisory scenarios to be used for the 2014 capital planning and stress testing program, which includes the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review of 30 bank holding companies with $50 billion or more of total...

A two-stage meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in individuals of European ancestry identified 11 new loci associated with Alzheimer’s disease. The multidisciplinary study, recently reported in Nature Genetics, (“Meta-analysis of...

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