Articles

06.21.19

Managing Insider Cyber Threats: How to Handle This Newly Appreciated Risk

“The practice—and, some would say, art—of risk mitigation is a critical skill and a top priority for general counsels and corporate legal departments today. While every company faces unique challenges based on its own business model and operating environment, there is one ...


06.20.19

Spoiler Alert: Spoiling a TV Show May Lead to Legal Action

 Manatt’s Maura Gierl, a litigation associate, and Robert Jacobs, leader of the entertainment litigation group, wrote a piece for the Daily Journal on the potential legal recourse that television producers can take against those who spoil television shows.  


06.04.19

Transforming Your Legal Department Into a High-Performing Organization

Manatt’s Suzanne Rich Folsom and Robert Garretson lend decades of executive experience in strategic leadership, corporate governance and legal department/regulatory compliance management.


05.22.19

Extending VBP Models Into Medicaid Drug Purchasing: Challenges And Opportunities

Manatt’s Alexander Dworkowitz, an associate with Manatt Health; Anthony Fiori, senior managing director of Manatt Health; and Deborah Bachrach, a partner with Manatt Health, wrote a piece for Health Affairs on value-based purchasing strategies and how they are used by state Medicaid ...


05.22.19

EPA Dips Toes Into PFAS Drinking Water

“On April 25, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Draft Interim Recommendations to Address Groundwater Contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) for public review and comment. The comment period ends on June 10, ...


05.21.19

To Break Up the Boys’ Club, Ladies, Why Not Start Your Own Venture Capital Firm?

Manatt’s Lisa Suennen, leader of the digital and technology group, wrote a piece for Entrepreneur magazine on why more women should start venture capital firms.  


05.10.19

Safe Harbor Reform in the United States: The Time is Now

“Recent news of the European Union directive related to active measures online service providers (or “OSPs”) must now take to police infringement on their sites has re-sparked a similar discussion in the United States, notably with the recent Copyright Office panel discussions ...


05.10.19

Foreign Banks Should Remain Wary of U.S. Sanctions Laws

While major enforcement actions against foreign banks for U.S. sanctions violations appear to have subsided over the past few years, recent settlements of sanctions-related claims against three large foreign banks remind us that federal and state authorities continue to aggressively monitor ...


05.08.19

California’s New Extended Producer Responsibility Program for Home-Generated Pharmaceutical and ...

“The sale of needles (sharps) and pharmaceutical drugs in California, based on national figures, is estimated to be on the order of $50 billion per year—and these are the latest consumer products to be subject to California’s expanding Extended Producer Responsibility ...


05.07.19

Abbreviated Justice

“California courts generally decide appeals with written decisions, but memorandum opinions do exist under California law. The big payoff in an appeal is the court’s opinion.”