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Singapore | Mutual Visa Exemption Agreement with China Effective Feb. 9
Singaporean officials announced the agreement with China for a 30-day mutual visa exemption policy will go into effect on Feb. 9. Key Points: As BAL previously reported, the reciprocal visa exemption arrangement was announced in December. Effective Feb. 9, holders of ordinary passports from Singapore and China will be exempt from visa requirements for a stay of up to 30 days in the other country.
USCIS Unveils Substantial Fee Hike, New Schedule to Take Effect Soon
Skip to main content February 01, 2024 Volume XIV, Number 32 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found. Trending News USCIS Unveils Substantial Fee Hike, New Schedule to Take Effect Soon Print Mail Download i This week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced a new fee schedule that is slated to go into effect on April 1, 2024.
Understanding Internal Investigations
Investigations are stressful for an organization’s leadership. But what is often overlooked is that they are stressful for an organization’s employees as well. The need-to-know nature of internal investigations usually restricts knowledge of the investigation’s character, scope, and potential consequences to a relatively small circle of senior management.
A Short Guide To Responding To Employee Concerns About Your Organization’s Actions And Its Mission, Vision, And Values | JD Supra
July 11, 2022 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: So, nearly 2 years ago your organization applied for and received COVID-relief funds. The decision was not an easy one. On the one hand, government largesse invariably comes with strings and uncertainties, i.e., risk. On the other hand, your organization faced an unprecedented triple threat crisis: financial, operational, and health.
A Short Guide To Responding To Employee Concerns About Your Organization’s Actions And Its Mission, Vision, And Values
So, nearly 2 years ago your organization applied for and received COVID-relief funds. The decision was not an easy one. On the one hand, government largesse invariably comes with strings and uncertainties, i.e., risk. On the other hand, your organization faced an unprecedented triple threat crisis: financial, operational, and health. Consumer spending plummeted and its consequences rippled through the economy threatening to trigger a global financial meltdown.
DOJ’s Renewed Focus On Corporate Ethics & Compliance Programs Highlights Importance Of Organizational Integrity | JD Supra
The inattention some companies pay to their ethics and compliance program never ceases to surprise us. You’d think the frequency of DOJ press releases and prosecutions holding companies accountable for employee wrongdoing would be enough to scare any business into directing more resources at prevention.
11th Circ. Ruling Misinterprets FCA Materiality Standard
Law360 (October 8, 2020, 5:18 PM EDT) -- In Ruckh v. Salus Rehabilitation LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit partially reversed U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday's 2018 "traps, zaps, and zingers" ruling, which overturned a $348 million False Claims Act jury verdict. The circuit court has since declined to review its decision en banc.
Big Data: The Next Frontier in CARES Act Fraud Detection
Thursday, September 17, 2020 In an effort to combat the devastating economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, authorizing $2.2 trillion in relief—the largest stimulus package in American history. Unsurprisingly, given the magnitude of the package, the Government early on expressed a commitment to aggressively investigate and prosecute any fraud against the relief program.
PPP Data Could Lead To Trouble For Loan Recipients
By David Douglass, Jonathan Meyer, Nikole Snyder and Matthew Lin Law360 is providing free access to its coronavirus coverage to make sure all members of the legal community have accurate information in this time of uncertainty and change. Use the form below to sign up for any of our daily newsletters. Signing up for any of our section newsletters will opt you in to the daily Coronavirus briefing.
Another COVID-19 Enforcement Tool: Money Laundering Law
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Another COVID-19 Enforcement Tool: Money Laundering Law
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Leading With Values In Times Of Crisis
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. p>The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown us all into a crisis of uncertainty. How does one stop a global pandemic? How long will it take to bend the contagion curve? How should the business community respond, to both the public health and financial challenges? How we as a nation, as individuals, and as businesses respond to these challenges, will reveal and test our values.
Leading with Values in Times of Crisis | JD Supra
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown us all into a crisis of uncertainty. How does one stop a global pandemic? How long will it take to bend the contagion curve? How should the business community respond, to both the public health and financial challenges? How we as a nation, as individuals, and as businesses respond to these challenges, will reveal and test our values. Sheppard Mullin’s Organization Integrity Group (“OIG”) helps our clients lead through their values.
Protecting Your Company's Organizational Integrity
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Nota Bene Episode 59: Organizational Integrity And Solving Reputational Threat With Jonathan Aronie, David Douglass, And Joseph Jay
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Organizational Integrity
Sheppard Mullin’s Organizational Integrity Group (“OIG”) is pleased to announce our new Organizational Integrity blog. This blog is born of our experience working closely with clients to help them address the threats to their companies’ organizational integrity.
Business Roundtable
The long-standing view of a corporation’s purpose has been simple; it is to increase shareholder value. That view is evolving, however. The Business Roundtable, the nation’s preeminent association of Chief Executive Officers of America’s leading companies, representing a diverse range of industries, has endorsed a broader vision of a corporation’s purpose.
Nota Bene Episode 59: Organizational Integrity and Solving Reputational Threat with Jonathan Aronie, David Douglass, and Joseph Jay | Lexology
Approaching organizational integrity to resolve reputational threats before and after they may occur requires accounting for corporate values, public trust, corporate stakeholders, and reputation while seeking out and handling corporate issues. To aid multinational companies with any such assessments, the Organizational Integrity Group at Sheppard Mullin was created by our guests today, Jonathan Aronie, Joe Jay, and David Douglass.
The ethics argument for promoting equality in the profession
Home In-Depth Reporting The ethics argument for promoting equality… Ethics By David Douglass November 1, 2019, 1:40 am CDT Shutterstock In 2016, the ABA took another important step in the ongoing battle to eliminate discrimination and promote diversity in the legal profession. It amended its Model Rules of Professional Conduct to declare discrimination professional misconduct, and it adopted a resolution intended to promote diversity in the legal profession.
Conducting Corporate Investigations in the Fish Bowl of Public Scrutiny
Expert Opinion It is not what you think that matters, it is what your audience thinks that matters. Remember, the message received is the message. Photo by hidesy/iStock Companies today live in a fish bowl of public scrutiny. Their actions are monitored under a microscope like never before. At a moment’s notice, a company’s practices and culture can be thrust to the forefront of public opinion. (I need not engage in public corporate shaming to illustrate the point.
INSIGHT: SWAT Team Training, Tactics Offer Lessons for Attorneys
A few years back, two of us had the privilege of joining a SWAT team in New Orleans responding to a call for a barricaded subject with an assault rifle. To be clear, by âjoiningâ we mean observing from the safety of the command vehicle. If youâve never seen a SWAT Roll, itâs something to behold. SWAT members are some of the best trained men and women in a police department. They are carefully selected, outfitted with high tech gear, and given countless hours of scenario-based training.
Compliance Risk Alert: Opioid Warning Letters issued by the U.S. Department of Justice Target Prescribers | JD Supra
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From the Big Easy to the Big Ten, And Beyond: What the Process of Reforming the New Orleans Police Department Can Teach Colleges and Universities | JD Supra
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In Case Alleging Nationwide Pharmacy Fraud, Kmart Scores Narrow Settlement
On Thursday, March 8, Kmart Corporation inked a settlement of a False Claims Act investigation[1] in which the qui tam relator initially alleged systematic pharmacy billing fraud across twenty-seven states for $525,000.[2] Brought by a pharmacist formerly employed at a Kmart in Lakeport, California, the original complaint alleged among other things that, instead of using a state-made drug utilization review alert system, Kmart relied on its own electronic systems that were not sufficiently...
In Case Alleging Nationwide Pharmacy Fraud, Kmart Scores Narrow Settlement | JD Supra
As described in an April 17, 2018 article originally posted on the Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton, LLP False Claims Act Defense Blog, Kmart Corporation and the U.S. Department of Justice entered into a False Claims Act settlement agreement dated March 8, 2018, to end an investigation that was conducted jointly by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California and California’s Bureau of Medicaid Fraud and Elder Abuse.
Escobar’s Demanding Materiality Standard Nixes $350 Million Verdict Against Florida Nursing Facility
A Florida federal court threw out a $350 million jury verdict against a nursing facility, citing the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar. The court explained that the relators had failed to establish that the alleged violations were material to the federal Medicare and state Medicaid programs’ decision pay claims.
Florida Verdict $350 Million Nixed
A Florida federal court threw out a $350 million jury verdict against a nursing facility, citing the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar. The court explained that the relators had failed to establish that the alleged violations were material to the federal Medicare and state Medicaid programs’ decision pay claims.
FCA Liability Materiality
In United States, et al., ex rel. Ruckh v. Salus Rehabilitation, LLC, et al., Case No. 8:11-cv-1303-T-23TBM (M.D. Fl. Jan. 11, 2018), a federal district court judge offered a thoughtful, cogent analysis of both the letter and spirit of the Supreme Court’s decision in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. Escobar, 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2016) to reverse a jury’s $350 million verdict in favor of the United States and Florida (as well as the relator).
Update on Gender Disparity in the Workplace: The Report by Lean In and McKinsey
Corporate America still has a long way to go to achieve gender equality in the workplace. According to a comprehensive study by Lean In and McKinsey & Company, Women in the Workplace 2015, women remain underrepresented at American companies, from entry level to the C-suite. The greatest disparity occurs at senior levels of leadership. The study’s authors offer several key findings. For one, the leadership ambition gap persists and women find the path to leadership disproportionately stressful.
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