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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...
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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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Authorities’ Use of Big Data May Harm—or Help—Your Chances of Investigation
Attorney Efrem M. Grail shares strategies to help protect your practice in Practical Pain Management this month As pain practitioners well know, two recent developments – one federal, one state – have combined to increase the risk of providers being investigated for...
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Current and former clergy members behind push to block report on clergy sex abuse
Photo source: Jessica Griffin/The Inquirer A small group of priests filed court documents saying they would not object to the Commonwealth's release of a grand jury report detailing clergy sex abuse if it released a redacted version of the report that blacked out...
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Old Debt Comes Due
In January of 1994, I was a 34-year old Los Angeles Deputy D.A. After two hung juries, I finally convinced a third one to convict a veteran L.A.P.D. officer of using new technology (at the time, basically an LAPD laptop) to set up the robbery of a check cashing store...
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