On September 14, 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) issued its long-awaited decision in Akzo Nobel Chemicals and Akcros Chemicals v. Commission (Case C-550/07 P), confirming that communications between company employees and in-house lawyers are not privileged in European Union (EU) competition proceedings.

In a recent federal district court case addressing a defendant’s motion to compel, Jannx Medical Systems, Inc. v. The Methodist Hospitals, Inc., 2010 WL 4789275, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul R. Cherry found a plaintiff’s production of electronic documents in PDF format without searchable text did not comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 (Rule 34).

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently modified the premerger notification form and rules for transactions reportable under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act).

On February 24, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom dismissed the appeal of Ian Norris, former CEO of The Morgan Crucible Company plc, paving the way for the first-ever extradition to the United States of a defendant in an antitrust case.

On August 25, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) issued a Final Rule (Rule) that requires all employers subject to the Board’s jurisdiction—i.e., the vast majority of employers doing business in the United States—to post a notice in the workplace informing employees of their right, among other things, to "[o]rganize a union," to "take action . . . to improve your working conditions by, among other means, raising work-related complaints directly with your employer or with a go

The Department of Labor (DOL) has now released the "final" version of its final regulation on required disclosures by plan service providers under the statutory prohibited transaction exemption provided by Section 408(b)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

On June 29, National Futures Association (NFA) submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) a petition for rulemaking (the Petition) that would revise the exclusions from the definition of a commodity pool operator (CPO) under CFTC Rule 4.5.

Release of list is an important step toward what likely will be a dramatic change to the Internet; interested parties have until August 12 to submit comments.

Traditional document review in the age of e-discovery is reaching the point of infeasibility. Setting hordes of attorneys in front of computer screens to review and code millions (sometimes billions) of records is not only prohibitively expensive, but often results in errors and inconsistent quality.

On February 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) upheld FERC’s determination that the "Mobile-Sierra" doctrine applies when deciding whether a Forward Capacity Auction (FCA) rate is just and reasonable.

A capacity resource may not take economic outages, but a resource may be considered physically unavailable if it cannot obtain natural gas or transportation.

The D.C. Circuit clarifies that FERC may prohibit manipulative trading only in markets outside of the CFTC's exclusive jurisdiction over commodity futures contracts.

On March 15, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to revise the Electric Quarterly Report (EQR) Data Dictionary so parties can more accurately report simultaneous exchanges.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to begin accepting applications this summer for waivers of environmental compliance.

Protocol provides clues regarding areas of focus for ongoing HIPAA audits assessing compliance with the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has stopped accepting H-1B petitions subject to the 2014 fiscal year H-1B cap or the advanced degree exemption.

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices recently issued a technical assistance letter stating that employers that share Form I-9 or E-Verify data with third parties, may be in violation of both the Immigration and Nationality Act.

For cases filed before enactment of the America Invents Act, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has clarified that unrelated defendants may be joined together in a single patent case only if claims are based on the same product or process.

Commissioner Kieff will work to determine the effects of U.S. intellectual property rights violations on U.S. industry.