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On 10 January 2020, (https://www.accountancyage.com/category/brexit-and-economy/hmrc/) HMRC updated its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations to include more comprehensive due-diligence checks and encourage us to make use of electronic verification wherever possible. This [...]

Over the last 10 years the governments of Australia, (1) Belgium, (2) Canada, (3) Denmark, (4) the United Kingdom (5) and most recently the United States, (6) have all made [...]

We hear you're looking to buy a law practice or have had enough and want to sell your own practice. There are many considerations to bear in mind, some of [...]

The interdependent nature of team sports raises certain unique issues when it comes to preservation and production of electronic documents and information. This article explores and examines some of these [...]

Although document control and records and information management (RIM) employees share a custodial responsibility that includes identifying, protecting, and presenting their entity's records as assets, they do not share the [...]

The Obama Administration placed strong backing for electronic medical record (EMR) development by making federal funds available to doctors that implement EMR systems. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [...]

With the move toward federal and state regulatory initiatives focused on improving the quality of care and linking health care payments to quality and the provider sector's response to develop models to accommodate these changes, a host of compliance issues are coming to the forefront and taking center sage. Compliance officers need to be able to identify these issues and the compliance challenges they face. Once again, the profession of the compliance officer in the provider setting is changing, given the dynamic pace of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the context of evolving integrated delivery systems (IDSs)., Background As the federal government began using Medicare payments to capture physician quality and performance, compliance officers were there to ensure that such physician self-reporting was compliant. Now with the [...]

In December 2006, amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect that changed the way companies must handle electronic documents, records, and messages--collectively defined as electronically stored information, or ESI. Any ESI that could become evidence in a federal case, such as interstate lawsuits, compliance regulations (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and OSHA), EEOC and other employment issues, immigration cases, and actions by the Internal Revenue Service, are included. Actually, it is difficult to think of any business document that might not be covered. This article discusses the amended rules, how failure to manage ESI properly can lead to catastrophic results, and how to manage the lifecycle of ESI. KEYWORDS electronically stored information, e-discovery, document retention

When Amy Wiginton filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer, C.B. Richard Ellis, Inc., her attorney sent a detailed letter to the company's counsel requesting that the firm stop [...]