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IOA Posts 2013 Conference Agenda, Opens Registration

21 Feb 2013, 4:30 am by Tom Kosakowski

— Sophia Qiao (Eaton Corporation), Charmhee Kim (McKinsey), Devyani Singh (Eaton Corporation)"Identifying Underlying Interests: Tips from Nature, History and the Cinema" — Kevin Coonrod (Dispute Resolution Center of King County)Concurrent Sessions"Branching Out: An Ombudsman’s Approach to Decision Trees and Risk" — John Barkat (United Nations), Nicholas Theotocatos (United Nations), Wendell Jones (Distinguished Emeritus Ombudsperson)"'What Just… [read post]

The Ombuds Blog - http://ombuds-blog.blogspot.com/

Government Doesn’t Need Your Private Info for Cybersecurity—But Members of Congress Still Want It

20 Feb 2013, 10:33 am by Jay Stanley

Interestingly, corporate representatives—perhaps to the surprise of CISPA's sponsors—said repeatedly that the private sector generally does not need to share Americans' personally identifiable information (PII) with the government to advance cybersecurity. [read post]

American Civil Liberties Union Blog of Rights - https://www.aclu.org/blog

Hedge Fund Tax Avoidance Schemes--using (purported) offshore reinsurers

19 Feb 2013, 2:38 pm by LindaMBeale

So why do it and how does the hedge fund reinsurer gambit work? [read post]

ataxingmatter - http://ataxingmatter.blogs.com/tax/

RICO Case Against Wal-Mart & CMI Settles for $8 Million

18 Feb 2013, 5:02 am by Kit Case

., a Delaware corporation; CLAIMS MANAGEMENT, INC., an Arkansas corporation; AMERICAN HOME ASSURANCE CO., a New York corporation; CONCENTRA HEALTH SERVICES, INC., a Nevada corporation; and JOHN DOES 1-10, whose true names are unknown,Defendants. [read post]

Washington Workers' Advisor - http://workersadvisor.com/

The House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property

11 Feb 2013, 1:45 pm by Gene Quinn

John Conyers (Democrat, MI-13) Representative John Conyers was born May 16, 1929. [read post]

Patent Law Practice Center - http://patentlawcenter.pli.edu

Getting It Together – One Habit at a Time

11 Feb 2013, 4:00 am by Allison Wolf

How does it feel? [read post]

Slaw - http://www.slaw.ca

Part 7: The U.S. National Contact Point: Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization.

8 Feb 2013, 1:31 pm by Larry Catá Backer

It does this by providing a frameowrk for the management of consensus on corporate behavior through international public bodies, which may then be projected down to corporate behavior and across to transposition into the domestic legal orders of states. [read post]

Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/

New IRS Regulations Regarding Noncompensatory Partnership Options Effective Immediately

7 Feb 2013, 10:36 am

An LLC or other entity eligible to be treated as a partnership but that has “checked the box” to be treated as a corporation is not considered a partnership for these purposes. [read post]

Corporate Securities Law Blog - http://www.corporatesecuritieslawblog.com/

Part 4; The U.S. National Contact Point--Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization

5 Feb 2013, 8:22 pm by Larry Catá Backer

It does, on the other hand, provide a new reference point for civil society actors and the general stakeholders to use in light of corporate abuses. [read post]

Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/

Part 3; The U.S. National Contact Point--Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization

4 Feb 2013, 7:08 pm by Larry Catá Backer

The update was preceded by a substantial amount of formal and informal consultation, with an emphasis on international organizations and actors with substantial stakes in furthering the human rights components of the Guidelines, including John Ruggie, the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights. [read post]

Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/

This Week in Civil Liberties (02/01/2013)

1 Feb 2013, 1:29 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU

Happy Birthday to the Corrections Corporation of America? [read post]

American Civil Liberties Union Blog of Rights - https://www.aclu.org/blog

Friday’s Endnotes – 02/01/13

1 Feb 2013, 4:00 am by Terry Hart

Wikipedia may seem different from the Encyclopedia Britannica, but it does not seem so different from EB‘s precursors. [read post]

Copyhype - http://www.copyhype.com/