ArticleRecent Deals Highlight The Changing Role Of PayorsThere has recently been significant attention on the role of new players in the healthcare market.United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleStolen Laptop Bag Leads To $750,000 Fine For Oncology GroupOn September 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a substantial settlement with an Indiana-based oncology group, Cancer Care Group, P.C. (CCG). United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleTrue Health Diagnostics Makes Offer To Acquire Health Diagnostic LaboratoryTrue Health Diagnostics, based in Frisco, Texas, has offered to acquire Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL), based in Richmond, Va., for $32 million, according to a Richmond Times Dispatch report.United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleTwo Key Legal Considerations In Urgent Care TransactionsUrgent care is a rapidly growing treatment modality, with a national growth rate of approximately 300 centers per year since 2008.United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleCommon Interest Protection Depends On Participants Cooperating In A "Common Legal Strategy"The common interest doctrine can avoid the normal waiver implications of separately represented clients sharing privileged communications.United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleCourts Allow A Voice From The Grave — The "Testamentary Exception"Not surprisingly, both a lawyer's confidentiality duty and the attorney-client privilege protection last beyond the client's death. But most courts recognize what they call...United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleCourts Implicitly Acknowledge The Wisdom Of Litigants Revising And Supplementing Their Privilege LogsSome courts essentially allow adversaries to play "gotcha" with a litigant's privilege log – finding the log inadequate and not giving the litigant another chance.United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleDisputes About Privilege Waiver Often Focus On The Subject Matter Waiver DoctrineWhile waiving the attorney-client privilege usually triggers ill effects, those can be enormously magnified by the subject matter waiver doctrine.United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleMore Courts Reject Common Interest Doctrine's ApplicabilityThe common interest doctrine may allow separately represented clients to share privileged documents without waiving attorney-client privilege protection.United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleNew Complaint – EHC Aspen Properties, LLC V. CCUR Holdings, Inc., Et Al.Plaintiff is limited liability company in California managed by Luis Serrano. United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleObjector-proofing May Attract Objectors - Hershey V ExxonMobil Oil CorpExxonMobil recently attempted to settle a class action involving the payment of gas royaltiesUnited StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleRare Court Decision Focuses On Document Discovery Of A Litigant's Law FirmSurprisingly few decisions deal with litigants' document discovery of an adversary's law firm. Perhaps United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleStates' Differing Approaches To Attorney-Client Relationships In The Insurance Context Complicate Privilege IssuesThe attorney-client privilege necessarily depends on an attorney-client relationship. Some states recognize what is called a "tripartite" relationship among a liability insurance carrier, its insured, and the lawyer it hires to represent the insured.United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleThe Privilege Can Protect Employee-to-Employee CommunicationsBecause attorney-client privilege protection depends primarily on communications' content, privilege logs rarely play a dispositive role in courts' analyses.United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleNFA Proposes Cybersecurity Guidance For Derivatives TradersOn August 28, 2015, the National Futures Association (NFA) submitted a proposed interpretative notice (Notice) to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to require information systems security programs (ISSPs).United StatesPrivacyMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleArlington County, Virginia, Tees Up Final Langston Boulevard Area PlanArlington County released an updated draft Langston Boulevard Area Plan (Plan Langston Boulevard) on Sept. 28, 2023.United StatesReal Estate and ConstructionMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleConfidentiality, Privilege Issues Sometimes Overlooked In Note SalesA promissory note is the quintessential "negotiable instrument" in a legal sense – that is it may be bought and sold.United StatesReal Estate and ConstructionMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleThe Role Of Lawyers In Serving Candidates Running For Election To Political OfficeEven before announcing their intentions to run for office, it is safe to assume that the current crop of presidential candidates sought the advice of lawyers to address a variety of legal issues relating to their anticipated candidacies. United StatesGovernment, Public SectorMcGuireWoods LLP
ArticleOctober Antitrust BulletinOn October 7, in DairyAmerica, Inc. v. Carlin, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the Ninth Circuit’s ruling that overturned the dismissal of monetary claims in an action brought by dairy farmers alleging that Dairy America, Inc., and California Dairies, Inc. (together, "Dairy America"), misreported pricing data to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). United StatesAntitrust/Competition LawMcGuireWoods LLP
Article"Amazon" Law Introduced In Virginia General AssemblyVirginia has joined the growing list of states that will consider adopting a law to require certain Internet retailers to collect Virginia sales tax from its Virginia customers, even if the retailer is not physically located in Virginia. United StatesTaxMcGuireWoods LLP