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U.S. Plays Catch-up to Close Long-Standing Gaps in Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Part Two: Focus on Real Estate Transactions

Part One of this Article focused on the U.S. Government’s anti-money laundering/contra terrorist financing (“AML”) efforts, certain deficiencies in the 2001 USA Patriot Act, which was enacted following the terrorist...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), USA
HELP WANTED: Sensible Immigration Options for U.S. Employers

“Nobody wants to work anymore” as evidenced by the Great Resignation is a sentiment that has been widely publicized, and has seemingly become part of the American psyche following two...Read more

Colleen DiSanto
Attorney, Disanto & Disanto,, USA

Molly Machold
General Counsel, FacilitySource, LLC dba CBRE Retail & Multi-Site, USA
Creative Claiming Strategies


Innovator companies in the biopharmaceutical space are looking to their patent counsel for creative patent claiming strategies to protect their assets. In this article, using the Federal Circuit opinions in...Read more

Angela Sebor
Director Intellectual Property, Tolmar, Inc., USA

Xiaoguang Michelle Gao
Associate VP - Assistant General Patent Counsel , Eli Lilly and Company, USA
Stacy Lewis
Law Clerk, Finnegan, USA
U.S. Plays Catch-up to Close Long-Standing Gaps in Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Part One
The U.S. Government finally seems to begin focusing on closing long-standing and significant gaps in existing anti-money and contra-terrorist financing laws (together, “AML”) that have been in existence for nearly...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), USA
Metaverse and Privacy
From Facebook's recent decision to rename itself "Meta" to Epic Games' billion-dollar investment in metaverse technologies, the metaverse has dominated the news and will likely continue to do so over...Read more

Gary Weingarden
Counsel, Data Protection Officer, Notarize, Inc., USA
Optional Arbitration Appeals: Principles and Practice
This article examines the availability of optional appellate review of a final award entered in private contractual arbitration proceedings between commercial entities in the United States. Such appellate review is...Read more

Joseph Aronds
Vice President and Chief Litigation and Trial Counsel, Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., USA
Will New York’s Indexed Payments for Tier 1 Renewable Energy Credits (“IRECs”) Hurt It’s Voluntary Corporate and Industrial (“C&I”) Renewable Energy Market?
Spurred by an imperative for durable energy offtake, long-term price certainty, improving project economics, and corporate social responsibility to combat climate change, corporate and non-utility industrial (“C&I”) buyers of renewable...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
Is a Single Bank Supervisor Inevitable throughout the European Union?
Nineteen Member States (out of 27) of the European Union have currently adopted the euro as their common currency and joined the banking union of the EU. By treaty provision...Read more

Duncan Alford
Associate Dean and Professor, University of South Carolina, USA
Antitrust Enforcement of No Poach/Wage Fixing Agreements Has Accelerated: Managers and Human Resource Professionals Should be Aware of The Enhanced Criminal Penalties for These Types of Agreements
Historically, when it came to antitrust enforcement, human resource (now commonly referred to as the ‘Talent Acquisition or ’Human Capital’ ) professionals were usually last on the list to...Read more

R. Mark McCareins
General Counsel, Metals Service Center Institute, USA
An Open Systems Approach to Law, Strategy, and Sustainability: The Role of the In-House Counsel in the Anthropocene Era
In an embarrassing rebuke, referred to by some as “the vote heard round the world” (Le Berre, 2021), the board of directors of oil and gas giant ExxonMobil lost a...Read more

Constance E. Bagley
CEO, Founder, and General Counsel, Bagley Strategic Advisors LLC, USA