Adhering to the axiom that the best defense is a good offense, SNHPA, an organization of close to 1000 hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, is attempting to defend its members’ 340B Program operations.

In this article Shula de Jersey and Matt Davies provide a brief mid-year update looking at what the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") has achieved so far this year...

The chart below shows the new deadline for distributing the forms.

TVIIM conceded that it did not seek construction of any of these terms before or during trial.

Addressing a copyright dispute between an individual designer and developers for Donald Trump, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the developers.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment holding claims for the composition of a vitamin supplement invalid and, therefore, not infringed because the claims, which stated a requirement the composition be "essentially free of antioxidants," were anticipated and obvious in light of an earlier European patent application that "optionally includes" antioxidants.

When investigating white-collar crime, it is often forgotten that a user's behaviour on mobile devices and computers can lead to additional insights. By analysing the digital traces...

This edition of our Enforcement Newsletter highlights significant developments across the spectrum of economic crime enforcement relating to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO)...

As artificial intelligence transforms software from deterministic tools into probabilistic systems that learn and generate content, traditional SaaS contracts have become structurally obsolete. Organizations now face unprecedented challenges in protecting proprietary data, maintaining regulatory compliance, and allocating liability when AI vendors use customer inputs to train models, generate outputs, and create derivative intelligence that may be functionally permanent.

We have previously asked whether the regulation of litigation funding was becoming an inevitability. The clamour for regulation continues and, with the Civil Justice Council (CJC)...

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in legal workflows, the risks to data privacy and confidential information are no longer theoretical—they're playing out in courtrooms. Understanding how AI systems handle sensitive data, from inadvertent disclosure to inference risks, is now essential for legal professionals navigating this rapidly evolving landscape.

There is an age-old axiom that still rings true in this digital age: do not publish or write anything, whether on paper or in cyberspace, that you would not want blown up and presented to a jury in court.

That's anything but a ringing endorsement, to be certain.

Late in the day amendments to pleadings will now be a risk management issue in the conduct of litigation. If you need to amend in the six months prior to trial it will be an increasingly greater risk the later in time the application is made.

Despite a traditionally busy fall season, civil litigators from the Ottawa and Eastern Ontario region gathered again this November at a County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA) annual litigation conference to share best practices and listen to the wisdom of judges and masters in an out-of-court setting.

Exploit attempts, cyber-defense, threat blocking, firewalls and encryption codes—are you being able to digest these terms as fast as they are thrown at you?

A federal appeals court recently ruled that an overbroad "no-rehire" provision in a settlement agreement with a former employee can be an unlawful restraint of trade under California law.

Most financial institutions we have represented over the years make a fine-line distinction between loan officers and asset recovery officers.

Although we do not know whether Congress will extend the Bush-era tax cuts, who will be affected, for how long, and when any changes might go into effect, we do know the planned rate increases that will go into effect short of any action by Congress.

Late last year, President Biden signed into law the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act ("Act").