BY ROBERT FRANKHOUSER Employers are always attempting to find new ways to limit their exposure to employment discrimination claims. Many employers have implemented multi-level alternative dispute resolution procedures which attempt to prevent claims of discrimination from occurring, settle the dispute before it reaches the appropriate judicial system and/or avoid the […]
Archive for May, 2012
The Relationship Between Law, Government, Business and Technology
BY NOEL COX Technology and technological changes affect the legal system. These effects are partly direct and indirect, via changes to the economy and to society. Technological changes alter the relation- ship between the governed and the government, and between gov- ernments. Legal systems also affect the development of technol- […]
Sales Gone Wild: Will the FTC’s Proposed Rule Put an End to Pyramid Marketing Schemes?
BY SERGIO PAREJA Americans who have seen “The Music Man” may believe that they easily can spot a Harold Hill; that is, a traveling salesman intent on defrauding people to make his fortune. Yet day after day, many Americans, and others around the world, fall prey to a similar type […]
Cultural Due Diligence: The Lost Diligence That Must be Found by U.S. Corporations Conducting M&A Deals in China to Prevent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations
BY NICOLE Y. HINES In April 2004, Lucent Technologies fired four top executives in its Chinese subsidiary. In February 2005, InVision Technologies (now GE InVision) paid $1.1 million in penalties consisting of a $500,000 civil penalty, disgorged profits totaling $589,000, and approximately $28,700 of prejudgment interest.3 In May 2005, Diagnostic […]
