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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CLE FINRA Arbitration Webinar. For the past years, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) arbitration process and enforcement trends have undergone significant modifications. Recent and proposed changes are dealing with an array of materially new issues focusing on online distribution platforms, and compliance with FinCEN’s Customer Due Diligence (CDD) rule, as well as with the firm’s mark-up disclosure obligations.

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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CLE Trade Secret Webinar. The enactment of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) in 2016 has provided federal jurisdiction for trade secrets claims, which allowed owners with misappropriated trade secrets to file complaints in the federal court. Since its passage, a notable rise of trade secrets claims has been reported with 1, 134 cases in 2017 from the average number of 900 cases filed in the previous years. It is possible that this might upsurge in the unpredictable future; thus, businesses must keep abreast of the recent developments in the DTSA. They must proactively review their procedures and safeguard their sensitive documents by ensuring intellectual property protection to avoid trade secrets liabilities.

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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CPE Tax Laws Webinar. The growing complexities in the current tax landscape have been posing a myriad of challenges to businesses. To address the potential non-compliance and audit risks, more retailers are now trending toward sales tax automation. However, with the explosion of sales tax technology in the market, how can your company or client choose the best solution that can cater to your organization’s or your client’s business needs?

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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CLE ITC Section 337 Webinar. With 74 new complaints filed in fiscal year 2018, the International Trade Commission (ITC) remains to be an attractive forum for intellectual property (IP) litigation. However, in recent years, Section 337 investigations on non-patent claims have also significantly increased. These non-statutory complaints include trade secret theft, antitrust, unfair competition, and false advertising claims. Complainants recognize the perceived effectiveness of Section 337 remedies which make the ITC a favorable venue for both statutory and non-statutory claims.

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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CLE Life Sciences Patent Litigation Webinar. The medical device and life sciences industries can be characterized as extremely innovative but also legally complex, highly competitive, and fiercely regulated fields. Emerging legal issues and recent federal court decisions involving subject matter eligibility, such as Vanda, also continue to significantly shape the patent litigation landscape.

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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CLE Complex Litigation Webinar. With the ever-evolving regulatory and compliance landscape, class action litigation remains to be one of the most crucial risks facing companies worldwide. To mitigate exposure to these risks, companies must be cognizant of practical ways to respond to recent changes and issues in various areas of the law.

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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CLE Anticorruption Antibribery Webinar. Intended to counter China’s perceived national security threats, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched its new "China Initiative," a task force that will probe China’s industrial espionage. The initiative will be implemented through significant strategies which include identifying and prioritizing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) lawsuits that involve Chinese businesses competing with U.S. companies. A heightened scrutiny on Chinese companies by the U.S., along with other countries, is expected.

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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CLE Government Contracts Webinar. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued several decisions that impact significant aspects of government contracts bid protests. The decisions address complex cost and pricing issues that are relevant to contractors not only as they prepare complex proposals for forthcoming opportunities, but also in determining the course of action in the event of possible future bid protests.

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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CLE Antidumping Webinar. Recently, petitions of alleged antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CVD) duties on imported products sold in the U.S. at an unfairly low or subsidized price has been constantly filed. The most recent duty petitions that is subjected to further investigations include various fabricated structural steel from China, Thailand, India, and Taiwan. The U.S. domestic industry keeps its market open to importation, which calls for robust and aggressive actions against "unfair" trade practices by foreign businesses and governments.

As new duty petitions like these continue to emerge, it becomes more important for businesses and their counsel to be in the know of the recent AD/CVD petitions, as well as new developments on antidumping and countervailing duty investigations to emphasize the importance of facilitating on legitimate trade.

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Join us for this Knowledge Group Online CLE Actuarial Factors Pension Plans Webinar. In recent months, we have seen a new wave of ERISA class action litigation challenging the reasonableness of actuarial factors used in pension plans. A group of class action complaints have been filed against traditional pension designs. These complaints allege the plans are using out-of-date mortality tables and interest assumptions to calculate optional forms of annuity and to reduce annuities for early commencement. As a result, the suits claim that annuities paid to participants under these plans are subject to excessive actuarial reductions, improperly denying participants their full vested benefits. The plaintiffs seek reformation of the plans’ terms, which is allegedly necessary to bring them into compliance with ERISA, recovery of past underpayments and resulting future increases in benefits.

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