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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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Cybersecurity Insurance: Coverage for the Inevitable
Hardly a month goes by without news of another credit card data breach. Merchants in nearly every sector have been hacked. While we often only hear about the large breaches that hit the biggest companies, small businesses are victimized the most. In fact, Verizon...
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How to Avoid a Data Breach from Point of Sale (POS) Malware
We asked our case expert, Forensic Tech/Systems Analyst Dr. Sean McLinden, to explain the recent wave of data breach attacks involving credit and debit / payment cards, similar to matters we’ve worked on for clients together. Dr. McLinden here explains how “bad guys”...
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The dangers of trusting your employees too much
Our colleague Ericka Adler of Roetzel recently offered advice on how physicians can protect their practices from internal fraud and embezzlement. You can read the full article in Physicians Practice here.
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Grail Law Firm defends hospitality merchant against data breach claims
The Grail Law Firm recently represented a hospitality industry merchant who suffered a sizeable data breach that led to the compromise of credit card information of thousands of the merchant’s customers. Based on a forensic investigation, the credit card companies...
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