April 2, 2012
Sober but cautiously optimistic, more than 2,600 lawyers and law-enforcement officers gathered in Washington from March 28 to March 30 for their annual Rites of Spring. It was a record level of attendance for a forum that the American Bar Association calls “the largest gathering of competition and consumer protection lawyers, economists and government officials on the planet.”
April 2, 2012
Justice Department officials were crowing as they ticked off their recent successes in a panel discussion on Wednesday morning attended by more than 100 lawyers. It’s been a “nice run of terrific...
April 2, 2012
The exploding world of mobile technology is reshaping the online privacy landscape and highlighting the challenges of providing privacy to consumers who have no idea how much of their personal...
April 2, 2012
Sen. Al Franken, a comedian-turned-statesman, created a stir at the annual awards dinner of the American Bar Association’s spring forum last week when he whipped out his cell phone and started...
April 2, 2012
Former Federal Trade Commission chairman Timothy Muris recently recalled that he was struck by something he saw while speaking at the first senior staff retreat of Jon Leibowitz, the current agency...
April 2, 2012
The room was packed—almost every seat was taken-- as officials from the Competition Commission of India, China’s State Administration for Industry & Commerce (SAIC) and China’s National Development...
April 2, 2012
Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau came into existence in July of last year, questions have arisen about how this new enforcement agency, with its sweeping jurisdiction, would...
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