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Pennsylvania Appeals Court Addresses Scope of Attorney-Client Privilege in Corporate Investigations
Controversy occurs at work all the time, and as a result, employees file lawsuits. Pennsylvania businesses often struggle with how to properly investigate these lawsuits, especially with how to obtain and keep confidential statements from employee witnesses. Now a...
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Upcoming Event: The First Amendment
Attorney Efrem M. Grail will present on the First Amendment as it pertains to a free press at the McKeesport Community Newsroom, as an initiative of the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University Center. The Community Newsroom supports citizen journalism and...
read moreDispensing Controlled Substances from the Office: A Guide for Physicians
Given law enforcement's current focus on combating the opioid epidemic, controlled substance-dispensing physicians are under increased scrutiny from local, state, and federal governments. Below is a brief overview of the law and regulations covering physicians’...
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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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