Articles

07.10.14

Sequestration Impacts on 1603 Grants for Solar Projects

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 created the Section 1603 Grant in Lieu of Tax Credit program for qualified renewable energy property ("Section 1603").  Under Section 1603, generally, the Secretary of the Treasury provided grants (as an alternative to ...


07.01.14

General Schemes vs. Specific Claims

The qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, which allow private individuals ("relators") to bring suit on behalf of the federal government and keep a percentage of the proceeds, continue to be some of the most potent weapons in the government's antifraud arsenal. In fiscal year 2013, over ...


06.30.14

VidCon: Brands & Media Companies, If You Miss It, You Don't Get It (and You Will Be Left Behind)

VidCon 2014 - like the 1892 Chicago World's Fair that heralded a new era of disruptive technology (how do you like that reference?) - this may be the event upon which we look back and say, for media companies, brands, and marketers, "This was the moment that defined the mainstreaming of ...


06.23.14

Brady Obligations of Civil Investigators

In February, after a four-week trial, a jury in the Southern District of New York convicted Mathew Martoma of three counts of insider trading and conspiracy. The case attracted attention because it adds to the list of recent insider trading convictions in the Southern District and because Martoma ...


06.19.14

Getting Into the Game: Academic Medical Centers and Population Health Approaches to Care Delivery

A revolution underway in healthcare is fundamentally changing how every academic medical center (AMC) operates. Healthcare reform is challenging academic medicine to reinvent its approach to the triple mission of teaching, research and clinical care. Changing economics, market consolidation, fiscal ...


06.16.14

Reducing Carbon Emissions from Power Plants Goes National (but stays local)

On June 2, 2014, EPA, under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, released the long-awaited draft greenhouse gas (GHG) rule for existing power plants across the nation. Officially called "The Clean Power Plan," the proposed rule establishes state-by-state 2030 GHG goals (except for Vermont, ...


06.13.14

The Many Ways to do Public Private Partnerships

As local governments face increasing budget pressure, and as tools such as tax increment financing face increasing political hostility, real estate developers should remember that there are many opportunities for private developers to partner with public agencies to finance and build projects. ...


06.09.14

Top 10 Privacy Considerations for Digital Marketing Campaigns

In today's competitive marketplace, companies are relying heavily on innovative and edgy digital marketing campaigns to promote their products and services that often include the submission of user-generated content, viral marketing, the brand's website, a mobile application and other social ...


05.30.14

Digital Tech, Helping Monetize and Expand the Live Music Experience

As I wrote previously, new and transformative online services enable artists to expand their "communities" of fans, directly engage with them, and monetize in myriad ways never before possible. But how about using online technology to fuel richer experiences, deeper engagement, and ...


05.29.14

Lowering Risk for Commercial ACOs

While hospitals and medical groups are showing greater interest in creating accountable care organizations to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, there is perhaps even greater enthusiasm for organizing ACOs to contract with private insurers. Commercial ACO arrangements are ...