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Healthcare

Balancing Patient Care With Whistleblower Liability Concerns

Editor: What do you credit for the recent uptick in whistleblower cases relating to the healthcare sector? Kierkut: I believe that there are two major reasons for the uptick. The first is that there is a big increase in the number of hospitals merging in the healthcare industry and that has...

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Finance

Fee-Shifting And The SEC: Does It Still Believe In Private Enforcement?

John C. Coffee, Jr. is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance. This opinion piece is an elaboration on, and extension of, testimony that Professor Coffee gave on October 9, 2014, before the SEC's Investor Advisory...

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Board of Directors

In Today’s World Of Imperfect Regulation, The Smart Compliance Money Goes To Strategic Risk Mitigation

Recent news headlines share common themes and raise cautionary flags for harried legal, risk and compliance professionals: The 2014 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to a professor whose career has been focused on the premise that financial markets and most industries are...

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