By Hayes Hunt and Tom Leonard Milagros Maria Del Pino Suarez has a request for President Obama: While you’re in Cuba, please ask Raul Castro where her father, Rafael Del Pino-who was hanged in a regime prison in 1977 for…
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The Cuban Casualties Escaping Obama’s Notice
Tagged with: Cuba State Sponsor of Terrorism, Cuban Asset Control Regulation, Cuban Embargo, Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act, Obama Foreign Policy, Rafael Del Pino, Raul & Fidel Castro, State Sponsored Terrorism
Posted in Civil Procedure, Corporate Compliance, Criminal Law, Jury, Litigation, Litigation Practice, Prosecution & Defense, The Bench, The Client, The Practice of Law, Trial, Uncategorized
Posted in Civil Procedure, Corporate Compliance, Criminal Law, Jury, Litigation, Litigation Practice, Prosecution & Defense, The Bench, The Client, The Practice of Law, Trial, Uncategorized
Privacy Breaches and Your Business
by Calli Padilla and Jason Bonk There is no more important time than now—perhaps even yesterday—to understand the critical importance of implementing, enforcing and training on policies reflecting best practices to protect companies against the all too real threat of…
Ticket to Sue – Pennsylvania’s Registration Requirement for Foreign Business Entities
By: Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr. and Thomas M. O’Rourke Consider the following scenario: You represent a foreign corporation in a breach of contract action in Pennsylvania state court. Your client is seeking substantial damages for unpaid widgets that it shipped…
How to Protect Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege – Defense Fails in Sex Discrimination Case
By Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr. and Alexa L. Sebia Last month, a Pennsylvania federal judge rejected a company’s claim to attorney-client privilege as an obstacle to pursuit of a sex discrimination suit brought by a lawyer and former employee.[1] The court…
Crime-Fraud Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege – Facebook’s Lawsuit
Hayes Hunt and Michael Zabel The crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege: As an attorney, you may not anticipate it applying to your emails, your letters or your advice to your client. But even if you never see it coming, your…
Investigating Employee Wrongdoing
By Hayes Hunt and Arthur Fritzinger Companies in every industry—private and public—struggle with the difficult task of promptly identifying employee wrongdoing and responding appropriately. The National Football League continues to be embroiled in a controversy arising from its reaction to…
Your Client is Hacked and Personal Information is Leaked Online – Now What?
By Hayes Hunt and Jillian Thornton You are general counsel to a company, and your CEO steps into your office, clutching his iPhone in one hand and wiping sweat from his brow with the other, and tells you that a…
Maintaining Privilege With Consultants – Practical Guide
By Hayes Hunt and Arthur Fritzinger Previously, we talked about the legal standards applied to claims of attorney-client privilege between a company’s general counsel and outside consultants. Now, let’s talk about practical tips for maintaining that privilege. We explained the…
Tagged with: attorney-client privilege, attorney-expert communication, Corporate Compliance, Corporate Law
Posted in Corporate Compliance
Posted in Corporate Compliance
Fifth Amendment Fundamentals – Taking the Nickel
By Hayes Hunt and Jonathan R. Cavalier Most in-house lawyers, if they’re fortunate, haven’t bumped up against the Fifth Amendment and its related issues since the bar exam. After all, the so-called “nickel” typically arises solely in the criminal context,…
Tagged with: Corporate Compliance, Corporate Counsel, Corporate Executives, Fifth Amendment, government investigation, Self-Incrimination
Posted in Corporate Compliance
Posted in Corporate Compliance
Criminal Convictions and Arrests – To Hire Or Not To Hire?
By Hayes Hunt and Jonathan Cavalier On the subject of criminal background checks, employers are often caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. On the one hand, use of criminal background checks can, and has, led to discrimination…
Tagged with: Arrest, Background Checks, Corporate Counsel, Criminal Convitions, EEOC, Employer Duty, Hiring
Posted in Corporate Compliance
Posted in Corporate Compliance
