Legal Compliance

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Laws

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Laws

EEO laws prohibit discrimination in the workplace based on race, religion, age, disability, or even genetic information.  Discrimination in your living room is a little problem, but discrimination in the workplace is a big, expensive problem.  And make no mistake about it,

Export Control Laws

Export Control Laws

Export Control Laws restrict the use and access to controlled information, goods, and technology for national security or protection of trade. Why do you need to know about these? There are national security reasons like keeping weapons and technology out of the

False Claims Act

False Claims Act

If you do any business of any kind with the US government, you need to be thinking about the FCA. Why? Because ever since 1863 when Abraham Lincoln was working diligently to hold our great nation together, the FCA has

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

The European Union has created the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, to protect and oversee the processing of personal information of people who are in the EU, regardless of where the company that’s collecting or processing that data is

Hatch Act

Hatch Act

The Hatch Act prohibits people from engaging in political activity on the job, using their office to affect elections, using their office to solicit campaign contributions, running for office in partisan elections, and engaging in political activities with someone doing

HIPAA

HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, increased healthcare portability and accountability, and the protection of privacy of patients.​

Insider Trading

Insider Trading

A general understanding of Insider Training laws is surprisingly important to the health of your business. Why? Because the strength of our economy, the ability for people to buy what you sell, is tightly interwoven with the strength of our

Joint Development Agreements

Joint Development Agreements

A joint development agreement sets the terms for multiple parties working together to develop something. JDAs are a fact of life for businesses because more and more companies are building stuff with more and more other companies, all over the world. 

Anti-Bribery – Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

Anti-Bribery – Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 addresses accounting transparency requirements and bribery of foreign officials. Corrupt business practices diminish the integrity of our worldwide business community. This matters to you because governments all over the world have created anti-corruption

Litigation Hold

Litigation Hold

It’s possible that you’ve never heard of the term, Litigation Hold. Well, if not, you wouldn’t be the only one. But, it’s a term you need to not only think about but understand. Why? Because it can be very costly