Although other legal and regulatory issues, ranging from financial reform to executive compensation, have firmly grabbed the spotlight, the stealth issue for 2010 may well be data security and privacy. Indeed, a broad class of businesses will face an array of new privacy obligations as a result of new requirements adopted on both the federal [...]

                                        23 September 2009 The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that they will explore updating their horizontal merger guidelines, the first such change in 17 years. Christine Varney, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, said the government would hold a series of public workshops to [...]