Feds Settle Huge Whistleblower Suit Over Medicare Advantage Fraud
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MedCity News reports that one of the nation’s largest dialysis providers will pay $270 million to settle a whistleblower’s allegation that it helped Medicare Advantage insurance plans cheat the government for several years.
Download: A Field Guide to Bad Directors
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The National Association of Corporate Directors has published “A Field Guide to Bad Directors,” which can be downloaded from the NACD website.
Contract Roulette: The Top Five Agreements That Get Businesspeople into Trouble
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You can do a lot of damage with a signature, warns Jack Garson of Garson Law LLC in Bethesda, Maryland. You can go broke.
Contracting Around Class Actions, a Win for Employers
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A recent Ninth Circuit ruling that Uber’s arbitration agreements did not violate the National Labor Relations Act provides a major victory to Uber by requiring each plaintiff to separately arbitrate his or her claims.
Bankruptcy Court Finds Arbitration Clause in Consumer Loan Contract to be Sufficient Cause to Grant Relief from Automatic Stay
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Because the court concluded that the invalidity claims were not core issues, the court granted the borrowers’ motion for relief from the stay.
Get Started Now for Legal Marketing Success in 2019
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Bruce Vincent of Muse Communications offers some law firm marketing recommendations, focusing on a few deadlines and easy-to-employ tactics prior to the New Year that can be used to market individual attorneys and firms.
Copyright or Copycat? Rock Classic ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Case Sent Back to Trial Court
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A dispute over the songwriting credit for the iconic “Stairway to Heaven” took a surprising twist when a California appellate court reversed a 2016 copyright victory for Led Zeppelin and ordered a new trial.
Morrison & Foerster Will Eat $16M in Fees, Costs Pursuing Vets’ Claims
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Bloomberg Law reports that Morrison & Foerster LLP accepted a fee award from the U.S. Army that’s $16 million less than the fee the firm could have sought.
Law Firm Admits ‘Unjust Enrichment,’ Agrees to $23 Million Settlement
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Stan Chesley, who was disbarred in Kentucky over his actions, was the sole owner of the firm, Waite Schneider Bayless & Chesley.
Vizio Reaches Potential Settlement for Its Spying TVs – And Victims Could Receive Less Than a Dollar
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Vizio has announced a potential $17 million settlement in a recent class action lawsuit, which could result in a pay-out that is as little as a few cents for each of the millions of affected customers, reports the New York Daily News.
Peter Spier Joins Quarles & Brady’s Business Law Group in Chicago
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Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Peter C. Spier has joined the firm’s Business Law Group as a partner in its Chicago office.
Webinar: Linux Foundation’s OpenChain Explained
Event, Thursday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m. CT
The Linux Foundation has developed the OpenChain project, a standard that can help software suppliers manage their production process better, to ship secure and compliant software to customers.
BigLaw Partner Deletes Twitter Account After Insult Toward Trump Press Secretary
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The ABA Journal reports that the tweet was “a sarcastic response to the White House press secretary after she praised Sen. Lindsey Graham.”
Elon Musk’s SEC Settlement Could Have Gone So Much Worse
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The SEC’s initial suit sought to bar the CEO from becoming an officer or director for any public company, perhaps for life, according to Wired.
Biglaw Practice Leader Encourages Women to Tell Him If They Plan on Becoming Pregnant – For ‘Budgetary Reasons’
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Above the Law reports that women in the Jones Day Business and Tort Litigation group have been “encouraged” to tell management if they were pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant within the next year.
Why Getting the Wrong Result in Arbitration May Be What You Bought
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Resolving disputes in arbitration can sometimes lead to surprising results, even ones that might be inconsistent with the underlying contract or with applicable state law, warns Ken Slavens for Husch Blackwell.
Understanding Similarities and Differences in Four Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Acts
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Indemnity provisions in the energy industry are a staple in Master Service Agreements and can be unilateral or mutual, explains a post on the website of Kean Miller LLP.
Sidley Hires Private Equity Lawyers in New York
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Adam Weinstein and Tony Feuerstein will join Sidley Austin LLP’s global Private Equity and M&A practices as partners in New York.
Littler Adds Bradford Hammock in Virginia and D.C. Offices
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Bradford T. Hammock has joined Littler as a shareholder in its Tysons Corner, Va. and Washington, D.C., offices.
Two From Minneapolis IP Firm Moore & Hansen Join Dykema
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Robert C. Freed and Conrad A. Hansen of the intellectual property law firm Moore & Hansen have joined Dykema’s Minneapolis office, both as senior counsel.
