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A Comprehensive Guide in Handling Medical Malpractice Claim: What You Should Know
While healthcare professionals grapple to save lives in the midst of the pandemic, medical malpractice lawsuits have also evidently increased. According to experts, the growing number of malpractice cases implies the pressure that hospitals are facing due to the current health crisis. The year 2020 has significantly reshaped the medical negligence arena and more changes are expected to come this 2021 and beyond.
Data Governance and Your Business: Demystifying the Hows and Whys
Data governance is a crucial tool to ensure proper management and protection of data assets within an organization. It establishes precise methods to standardize business procedures, creates clear internal rules for changing processes, helps ensure risk management and optimization, and supports compliance with privacy and security regulations.
Trends and Updates in UCC Secured Transactions: Tips and Tactics Explored
Through the years, the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 9 has been a significant help for borrowers and creditors through its governing guidelines on secured transactions. These guidelines regulate the security interests of creditors, who are given the chance to repossess a borrower’s secured property as a collateral to the outstanding debt. However, securing collateral has become a challenge in this evolving regulatory paradigm.
Trends and Developments in Private Funds Regulation: What You Must Know and Do
In recent years, the private fund industry has experienced massive growth which has significantly outnumbered public equities. More notably, private equity funds continue to foster and diversify into credit, leasing, real estate, and infrastructure investments among others making private equity firms enter the year with expectations of increased transaction volumes. However, as the industry maintains its upward trend, several complexities begin to emerge such as increased litigation risks and regulatory scrutiny.
Litigating Fiduciary Duty Claims: Winning Strategies Explored
Breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits have been continuously penetrating the business litigation landscape. With claims ranging from theft and self-dealing to usurpation of corporate opportunity, cases can involve partners, shareholders, or creditors.
Litigation Finance on the Rise: Demystifying Trends, Opportunities, and Best Practices
Litigation finance continues to rise and become a substantial financing tool for everyone today. Because law firms and corporate clients greatly suffered from liquidity constraints and unstable balance sheets brought by the pandemic, they have begun looking for alternative ways to finance legal disputes by engaging with litigation funders. Notably, the increased access to litigation finance has offered considerable advantages and has been widely recognized by bar associations and courts.
How to Deal with Mental Health and Substance Use Issues: Practical Tips and Strategies Lawyers Need to Consider
Mental well-being is crucial in the legal profession. However, a recently conducted study showed that a huge number of lawyers suffer from depression, anxiety disorder, and problematic drinking. Mental health and substance use issues also occur at a higher rate in the legal industry which is commonly linked to chronic stress and burnout brought by heavy workloads, client issues, and toxic working environment.
Antidumping and Countervailing Duties: Ensuring Compliance While Mitigating Risks
The enforcement and compliance landscapes for antidumping and countervailing duties continue to heighten as the number of cases and petitions filed against foreign importers continues to grow. Key issues include the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) increased number of requests for information and notice of actions to foreign importers, the potential expansion of Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) authority to deter AD/CVD evasion as well as other foreign trade concerns.
SEC’s Heightened Enforcement: Exploring Practical Compliance Tips and Strategies
The securities law landscape continues to evolve as new regulatory developments emerge. Recently, under the direction of its new Chair, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) has been messaging the priorities of its enforcement program, including renewed focus across the agency related to climate change disclosures, cybersecurity, and financial innovation.
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