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Expert Analysis

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  Pursuing Wellness: Steps Toward A Supportive Firm Culture

  

  As an early advocate of the American Bar Association's year-old well-being pledge, we launched an integrated program to create and sustain a supportive workplace culture with initiatives focused on raising mental health awareness, embracing creativity and giving back to the community, says Casey Ryan at Reed Smith.

• Change In TCPA Compliance Is On The Horizon

  

  With the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act making its way through Congress and Federal Communications Commission autodialer guidance pending, businesses should expect some much-needed clarity regarding compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, say David Carpenter and Kelley Barnaby of Alston & Bird.

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  Pursuing Wellness: Mental Health Education As A Firm Priority

  

  Our firm drives a holistic concept of well-being through educational opportunities, such as a series of expert-led workshops intended to address mental health and substance abuse issues that we vowed to fight when we signed the American Bar Association's well-being pledge one year ago, says Krista Logelin at Morgan Lewis.

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  Pursuing Wellness: A Firm's Work With Mental Health Experts

  

  Signing the American Bar Association's well-being pledge last year was a natural progression of our firm's commitment to employee wellness, which has included developing partnerships with professionals in the mental health space to provide customized programming to firm attorneys and staff, say Annette Sciallo and Mark Goldberg at Latham.

• Key Issues To Consider In Foreign Bankruptcy Proceedings

  Excerpt from Lexis Practice Advisor

  

  In PT Bakrie Telecom, the New York bankruptcy court provided a primer on several important issues to consider in a Chapter 15 foreign bankruptcy proceeding — most notably that the conclusion of a foreign proceeding doesn't necessarily prevent the later appointment of a foreign representative, say Dan Moss and Mark Douglas of Jones Day.

• SEPs In The Wake Of Qualcomm: 4 Enforcement Issues

  

  As demonstrated by recent court decisions such as Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm, standard-essential patent infringement suits are hardly straightforward. But these cases as well as statements from government agencies reveal key factors that SEP holders should keep in mind when seeking to enforce their patents, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.

• The State Of TCPA Litigation 1 Year After Marks V. Crunch

  

  The Ninth Circuit's 2018 decision in Marks v. Crunch, interpreting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to cover any dialer that calls from a stored list of numbers automatically, has been applied by district courts all around the country, but one year later, its impact appears to be faltering, says Eric Troutman of Squire Patton.

• FTC Settlement Over COPPA Will Change YouTube's Biz Model

  

  While the $170 million fine received most of the headlines, the recent settlement of the Federal Trade Commission and New York attorney general with Google and YouTube includes provisions that ultimately could expose content creators and channel owners to liability under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, says Allison Fitzpatrick of Davis & Gilbert.

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  Pursuing Wellness: When A Firm Brings Counseling On Site

  

  One year ago, our firm signed the American Bar Association's well-being pledge and embraced a commitment to providing on-site behavioral health resources, which has since become a key aspect of our well-being program, say Meg Meserole and Kimberly Merkel at Akin Gump.

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  Pursuing Wellness: Inside A Firm Meditation Program

  

  After our firm signed the American Bar Association’s well-being pledge one year ago, we launched two key programs that included weekly meditation sessions and monthly on-site chair massages to help people address both the mental and physical aspects of working at a law firm, says Marci Eisenstein at Schiff Hardin.

• Consumer Class Standing Faces Uncertainty In 11th Circ.

  

  An eventual resolution of whether unnamed class members are required to establish Article III standing by the Eleventh Circuit, together with its recent Telephone Consumer Protection Act decision in Salcedo v. Hanna, may alter the continued viability of TCPA class actions, as well as class claims brought under other consumer protection laws, say attorneys at Stumphauzer Foslid.

• Calif. Guidelines Advance Telehealth For Medicaid Patients

  

  Although the California Department of Health Care Services' updated guidelines expanding telemedicine reimbursement have some shortcomings, they open new channels of care for many Medicaid beneficiaries and raise intriguing prospects for similar programs across the country, say Harsh Parikh and Jill Gordon of Nixon Peabody.

• FCC Rural Health Developments Shift Focus To Functionality

  

  The Federal Communications Commission's proposed plans to modernize and fund its rural health care programs represent a new approach prioritizing patients' nuanced needs, rather than focusing on the rurality of health care providers, says Danielle Frappier of Davis Wright.

• Early Sampling Of Electronic Info Is Underutilized In Discovery

  

  The early and prompt provision of samples from all electronically stored information sources as a part of ESI protocol search methodology is consistent with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and may allow for significant cost savings during discovery, says Zachary Caplan at Berger Montague.

• Beyond $15B: What's At Stake In The Apple Irish Tax Appeal

  

  On Tuesday, the EU General Court will hear an appeal to a European Commission decision ordering Apple to repay €14.3 billion in taxes and interest to Ireland. This case triggers important questions of a member country’s range of discretion in granting tax incentives to nonresident companies, says Joyce Beebe of Rice University.