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Delegate Kathleen Dumais (District 15, Montgomery County) will be reintroducing legislation in January 2014 that proposes the creation of a Commission on Tax Policy, Reform, and Fairness as a first step in a top-to-bottom assessment of Maryland's tax...

The federal government invests significant resources in combating health care fraud and abuse. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently released its Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2014...

With the zoning rewrite work sessions as a backdrop, Councilmembers George Leventhal and Marc Elrich have resurrected their dissatisfaction with the "incentive density point" distribution under CR Zone. The following incentive areas have come under...

On November 20, S&P released a request for comment on its methodology for rating CDOs of project finance debt. Comments must be submitted by December 21. On November 19, Moody’s released its updated approach to rating CLOs....

When a company evaluates a potential acquisition target, employment agreements and non-competition agreements might not top the list of assets and liabilities it considers. A recent decision from a federal court in Florida reminds us, however, that...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) recently issued guidance on what it looks for when requiring national banks and federal thrifts in enforcement orders to engage third-party consultants (3PCs). Bulletin 2013-33 summarizes how OCC...

Are you a manufacturer of products sold in plastic containers such as tools, consumer electronics, dish soap or soft drinks? Are you a company that rebrands these types of products for sale in your retail stores? Are you a company that makes...

Software license audits are on the rise. On January 27, 2012, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, Gartner, released a survey showing that two-thirds of all companies have been subject to software auditing during...

Getting hacked by Russian hackers three times in two years has turned out to be only half of the problem for Wyndham Worldwide Corporation. The Federal Trade Commission, in a broad interpretation of the authority granted to it by Congress, brought...

On November 19, the Fed, the OCC and the FDIC released an estimation tool to help community banks understand the potential effects on their capital ratios of the regulatory capital reforms imposed by Basel III and the Dodd-Frank Act....

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