May 2012 | Holly Gregory
In her regular monthly column on corporate governance issues, Weil partner Holly Gregory gives an overview on the use of social media for company communications, and explores the steps that a board can take to understand the company's use of social media and provide effective strategic guidance and risk oversight.
April 17, 2012 | Gary Friedman and Daniel Venditti
Employment Litigation partner Gary Friedman and associate Daniel Venditti analyze the California Supreme Court's long-awaited ruling on mandated meal and rest break periods for employees in
Brinker Int'l v. Superior Court, which cast a wide net that will have far-reaching implications for employers and employment class actions.
March 20, 2012 | Adam B. Plainer, Sally Willcock, Michele J. Meises, Arnold Buessemaker, Anne-Sophie Noury
The authors, members of Weil's Restructuring practice in London, Munich, Paris and New York, collaborated to prepare a guide comparing the restructuring procedures in each of England, France and Germany with chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code.
March 8, 2012 | Christian Bartholomew and Sarah Nilson
Litigation partner Christian Bartholomew and associate Sarah Nilson analyze important current SEC enforcement issues, including the SEC's increasing focus on market participants; its new whistleblower program; new enforcement powers under Dodd-Frank; and its priorities in the areas of FCPA, insider-trading, and financial statement and accounting cases.
February 6, 2012 | Jeffrey Klein, Nicholas Pappas, and John Sullivan
Employment practice group head Jeffrey Klein and partner Nicholas Pappas discuss divergent rulings by the Third and Eighth Circuits on disputes involving expert witnesses and proffers of testimony at the class certification stage, an issue that seems headed for the Supreme Court.
February 2, 2012 | Barry Fishley
Weil's Barry Fishley discusses key trends expected in 2012 in intellectual property, information technology, and data protection, including cloud computing, cyber security, proposed changes in data protection regulation, near field communciation, and more.
January 25, 2012 | John Sipple and Laura Wilkinson
Weil's Sipple and Wilkinson discuss the FTC's revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act filing thresholds and thresholds for interlocking directorates prohibited by Section 8 of the Clayton Act.
December 15, 2011 | Kimberly Blanchard, David Bower, Robert Frastai, and Kristina Novak
Weil attorneys Blanchard, Bower, Frastai, and Novak explore the US Internal Revenue Service's proposed regulations concerning the taxation of investing activities of foreign governments and which issues the proposed regulations do not adequately address.
December 5, 2011 | Marcia Goldstein, Heath Tarbert and Kathlene Burke
Weil's Goldstein, Tarbert, and Burke offer an in-depth discussion of the resolution plan requirement for for large bank holding companies - so-called "living wills" - included in the Dodd-Frank Act and how covered companies should approach the task.