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How To Not Become a Victim
At least monthly — sometimes weekly — some attorney calls me seeking help for their client(s), whose long-time trusted employee has embezzled from the company; for a business whose systems have been hacked and their customers’ credit card numbers taken; or victimized...
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How to Prevent Another College Admissions Scandal: Proactive Compliance
It’s difficult to say anything that is not painful about the college admissions scandal, where Boston federal prosecutors already have a dozen wealthy parents, including actress Felicity Huffman, pleading guilty to fraud in helping their children get into elite...
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Efrem Grail Offers Session at ASAM Annual Meeting on Why Physicians Must Be Proactive in Understanding Laws, Regulations
Efrem Grail, along with his co-presenter, Ericka Adler, offered a special session at the American Society for Addiction Medicine's Annual Meeting last week: “The New Enforcement Environment: How to Keep Your License & Avoid Indictment." The Department’s recent...
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All of Us Research Program
The National Institute of Health wants to speed up health research and medical breakthrough. Cure disease. Make EVERYONE more healthy. Nothing too important. Its All of Us research program is doing it, by recruiting more than one million people to give health and body...
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Victims of Business Crimes Aren’t Always Better Off Seeking Prosecution
A week hasn’t gone by since I left my job as a prosecutor in 1995 (yes, 1995: Bill Clinton was president, the Dow topped 5,000 for the first time ever, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder that year and the iPod wouldn’t come out for another six years) when a...
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Grail Law Firm Helps Lead Coalition Of Pennsylvania Lawyers To Protect Individuals’ Due Process Rights Before The Commonwealth’s Supreme Court
In a pair of decisions on December 3 and July 27 of, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court backed significant restraints on state prosecutors and their power over secret grand jury proceedings. The Opinions in the In Re: Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury case...
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Takeaways from the Annual Pennsylvania White Collar Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Conference
Newsflash: the Justice Department is still an insider’s club, criminal practice is not for beginners, and courts still penalize defendants who exercise their constitutional right to have criminal charges against them tried by a jury; Western Pennsylvania is the only...
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From the Desk of Efrem Grail: Takeaways from the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pharmacy Law
Last week, I was privileged to attend the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pharmacy Law, on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Here are some few general ‘takeaways’ for our health-care provider and physician practitioner/practice groups specifically,...
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Grail Law Firm interviewed for BuzzFeed article on prescription fraud
Efrem Grail was recently interviewed for an article in BuzzFeed News titled: These Doctors Are Illegally Prescribing Addiction Medications. But Should They Be Prosecuted? Though Efrem declined to comment on his client's case mentioned in the article, it offers an...
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