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During the past several years, CRE Securitizations were airbrushed off the financial products reviewing podium like a discredited Politburo member. Not here, never ever here; nope, never heard of it. This was a mistake rooted in populous politics and...

Can states constitutionally regulate the carbon content of imported electricity? A recent decision by federal district court in Minnesota may curtail such state regulation, at least in states that are part of pooled transmission systems and organized...

Your passport L-1A visa stamp is good until 2015, but the USCIS approval expires in 2014, which one is correct? The dichotomy in the passport visa stamp and the USCIS approval can be confusing. There is a difference in the L status that is required...

Two suspended sheriff's officers were federally charged Friday in a claimed conspiracy to violate civil rights that is linked to a now-disbarred Florida lawyer serving a 50-year prison term in a $1.2 billion swindle. Lt.

In a case questioning how a new Arkansas law requiring voters to present photo IDs would apply to absentee voters, a Pulaski County Circuit judge startled some onlookers by ruling Thursday that the entire law is unconstitutional, the Associated Press reports.

Last Christmas’ data breaches at Target-one of the nation’s largest retailers-provided a painful lesson on the damage a data security breaches can do to consumer confidence and good. And Target was not alone. It joined Neiman Marcus and a growing...

Internal investigations conducted without outside counsel risk not being protected by the attorney-client or work-product privileges. On March 6, 2014, the District Court for the District of Columbia ordered production of documents related to an...

Leading players from different business sectors have spent the past few years learning how to use social media insights and analytics to drive consumer behavior. But outside partners usually provide the algorithms that drive those insights—and...

A cottage industry of class action litigation recently grown up in the shadow of the FDA’s refusal to define the term “natural” for the purpose of food product labeling. In these class action suits, claimants allege that labeling food products as...

A prominent Pennsylvania attorney won a six-week reprieve when a criminal case alleging he had raped a law firm employee was dropped in March by the Montgomery County district attorney's office.

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