Newsletter Article Archives

Harvesting Tax Benefits in Global Supply Chain Management: How Apple Computer Does It

U.S. Immigration Law Reform: The Death of Offshore Outsourcing?

Misappropriation of Corporate Opportunity: MobileActive Media, LLC under Delaware Law

Obama’s Outsourcing and Offshoring Promotion Program

Seven Best Practices for Indemnification Clauses (for Outsourcing, M&A, Employment Agreements, Intellectual Property and Any Deal)

Non-Practicing Entity Buys Kodak’s Digital Business Patent Portfolio, Licenses to Consortium

Knowledge Management in Strategic Alliances and Outsourcing

Cybersecurity: An Issue for Both Tech Service Providers and Clients, especially for Cloud, Mobil and Social Computing and the Internet of Things

Outsourced Call Center Violates Consumer Protection Laws: Bank Liable for $200 Million

ObamaCare Survives Judicial Death Threat: Impact Of Supreme Court Decision On Offshoring And Outsourcing

Four “Hot” Deal Structures and Pricing Models in Sourcing of BPO and KPO Services

Computer-Assisted Document Review in e-Discovery Can Avert Manual Review, Even if Not 100% Certain: “Predictive Coding” Protocol Passes Muster

Robo-Calls, Call Centers and Collection Agencies: Supreme Court Approves Federal Court Lawsuits under Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991

Change Mismanagement

Korea As a Service Delivery Center After US-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA)

To Arbitrate or Not, That is the Question

Impact of “America Invents” Patent Law on Global Sourcing

Federalizing Data Security Breach Rules

Regulatory Settlement of Fraudulent Robo-Signing by Mortgage Servicing Companies

Indian Privacy Law: Sensitive Personal Information

Impact of UK Bribery Act, 2011 on Best Practices in Global Sourcing

Bribery, Fraud and Contract Mismanagement: The SAIC / “CityTime” Debacle in New York City

2011 Indian Privacy Law

Legal Issues in Using Performance Metrics for Innovation

U.S. Data Protection: The Draft Commercial Privacy “Bill of Rights” Act of 2011

Anti-Corruption Open letter by Wipro’s Chairman and Others: Corporation Social Responsibility in Outsourcing in India (and other Emerging Countries)

Global Entrepreneurship and U.S. Innovation and Job Creation through Employer-Based Immigrant Visas

“Startup America”: A Vision for American Entrepreneurs: What Role for Global American Entrepreneurship?

Indian Taxation of “Body Shops” and Onshore-Offshore Model: 100% Tax-Exempt No Longer?

Failed Software Development: De Beers Debacle

A New Twist on Labor Arbitrage: The Impact of ObamaCare to Promote Offshore Outsourcing

Belt and Suspenders, and From SOX to SOC’s: Changes in Service Audit Standards on the Service Organization’s Risk Management, Security and Process Controls

U.S. Increases Visa Fees by $2,000 for H1-B’s and $2,250 for certain L’s: Sen. Schumer Leaps from “Chop Shops” to “Body Shops”

Government Procurement: Civil Fraud and Debarment for Non-Disclosure of [Offshore] “Outsourcing”

Business Method Patents for Business Process Sourcing : Strategies for Hedging Your Bets when Strategies for Hedging Weather Futures are Unpatentable under U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski Decision

Online Form Builder for Consumer Privacy Notices

Financial Services Outsourcing: New Roles and Risks under a Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Managing the New “Trade Secrecy” Risks in Global Sourcing: Criminal Theft, Criminal Negligence, Espionage, Bribery, Antitrust and Cross-Border Law Enforcement

Trade Secrets

U.S.-India Bilateral Cooperation on Trade and Investment: Impact of Joint “Framework” upon Global Services Industries

How to Achieve Innovation through Outsourcing: Shifting the Paradigm

Cyber Security Threat Management in Outsourcing: The Coming National Security Regulation of ITO, BPO and KPO

Risks of “Climate Change”: SEC Highlights Global Need for Business Resiliency Planning and Policies

Social Security Tax Agreements: The Cost of Expatriate Workers

E-Discovery and Legal Process Outsourcing: ESIM Process Design and Choices between Outsourcing vs. Insourcing

When is a Contractual Limitation of Liability Invalid and Unenforceable? American Public Policy Exceptions to Exculpatory Clauses in Telecommunications

“ObamaCare”: Promotion of Automation, Offshore Outsourcing and Job Losses; Penalizing Foreign Companies Based in Tax Havens (and Other Non-Treaty Countries)

Failed Deals in Outsourcing of State Welfare Benefits Administration: Anatomy of Unsuccessful Business Process Transformation

Case Study for Legal Risk Management for “Cloud Computing”: Data Loss for T-Mobile Sidekick® Customers

Mortgage Loan Servicing and Other Outsourcing by TARP-Assisted Entities: Criminalization of Contract Fraud under Government Contracts

Social Networking and Cybersquatting in Outsourcing: Legal Conflicts where BPO Meets SaaS

Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Policy on Sexual Discrimination: Risks and Benefits of an Evolving Role of Business “Code of Conduct” in Promoting American Public Policy for Human Rights

The Coming Federal Health IT Monopoly: Electronic Health Records and Health Privacy Rules under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Appendix to Hitech Act

Identity Theft in 2009: Compliance by Business Owners and Government Agencies under Draft Federal Data Breach Notification Act

Codes of Conduct in the Outsourcing Environment: Practical Scenarios after Wipro Debarment and Raju / Satyam Fraud