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All entities covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act must get ready: Audits of privacy and security compliance under the act have officially begun.

Mary French had a gut feeling that something was wrong. Her 78-year-old mother, Lois McCallister, had asked her why the employees at the nursing home where she lived were hurting her.

A recent decision from the Federal Circuit may make it easier for suits against companies incorporated in Delaware to be transferred outside the state.

Facebook has made several recent additions to its social media platform to increase users’ sharing of information with a minimum of effort.

Attorneys who practice before the 2nd Circuit now have the option to draft pleadings and motions for pro se clients without disclosing their involvement — a process known as “ghostwriting” — after the court’s recent ruling that such actions do not constitute misconduct warranting sanctions.

Considering a career move or looking for a new job? Then pick up a newly released book from the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Section, “Job Quest for Lawyers: The Essential Guide to Finding and Landing the Job You Want.”

The plaintiffs’ product liability claims over Prempro were properly dismissed because they were sufficiently similar to claims previously litigated and dismissed as time-barred in New York, the 8th Circuit has ruled.

After months of speculation and anticipation on the part of estate planning attorneys and tax practitioners, the Internal Revenue Service has issued a Notice and Revenue Procedure for 2010 estates seeking to exempt out of the estate tax.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission didn’t stop to enjoy the last burst of summer, instead filing 15 discrimination suits over the last ten days of August.

The American Bar Association’s Ethics 20/20 Commission has issued a report to the House of Delegates finding no evidence of a “pervasive problem” caused by lawyer ranking services. In February 2010, the House of Delegates directed the Commission to “examine any efforts to publish national, state, territorial and local rankings of law firms and law schools.”

The statute of limitations under the Vaccine Act was triggered when the plaintiff first exhibited symptoms or manifestations of the claimed injury, the en banc Federal Circuit has ruled in finding a suit time-barred. A doctor received three Hepatitis-B vaccinations in 1996 and 1997. In 2005, she filed a claim under the Vaccine Act, seeking compensation for her multiple sclerosis, which she alleged was caused by the vaccine.