Legal and Political Risks When Working Internationally Businesses want to access and participate in the global market. But, when doing business with foreign governments in countries without a stable rule of law requires lawyers and their clients to manage the political and legal risks when working internationally. Margaret Cassidy and Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam and Partners had…
The Alternative to Bail Committee will work to develop non-partisan, thoughtful legislation for states on matters of pre-trial detention. Margaret looks forward to contributing to this worthy endeavor and to the opportunity to deploy her passion for justice and fairness. The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has worked for the uniformity of state laws since 1892….
Margaret Cassidy was happy to team up once again with JSchaus & Associates to present on a webinar on identifying and managing procurement risks for the Federal Government Contractor. To listen to the presentation:
Agency inspector general offices investigate complaints from persons in the federal government ecosystem who complain about waste, fraud, abuse of authority; violations of law, regulations or policies; or danger to public health or safety; and, suffer some type of adverse employment action for doing so. Since the enormous Department of Defense (DoD) gets so…
Margaret Cassidy was a panelist at the ABA Business Law Section Annual Meeting CLE in Austin, TX this past September. Privileged to talk privilege at the ABA Business Law Section Annual Meeting with my friends and colleagues, Laura K. Schwalbe with Harter Secrest & Emery LLP and Angelle Smith Baugh with Covington & Burling LLP….
The Federal Government wants employees of contractors and subcontract and independent contractors to disclose to the government instances of fraud, waste, abuse of authority; violations of law, regulations or policies; or substantial and specific danger to public health or safety. Once someone makes a disclosure of this nature, laws and regulations protect them so they…
Nothing induces shell shock for both lawyers and business people like reading a federal government request for proposal or contract for the first time. There are a number of reasons for this: The RFP/contract goes on for pages, often in excess of 100 pages The RFP/contact is filled with government lingo The RFP/contract has pages…
This CLE webinar will guide corporate counsel, directors and officers on methods in minimizing risks associated with the outsourcing of goods and services. The panel will discuss approaches to limit exposure in service agreements, managing third-party breaches, and due diligence considerations in the outsourcing of products and services. The panel will review these and other…
My good friends and esteemed colleagues over at Law Offices of Sara Kropf, Sara Kropf and Dan Portnov, recently wrote a blog post asking the white-collar defense community whether they have encountered federal government contractors rather than government employees, prosecutors and federal agents conducting government investigations. Read the full post: Government Contractors Conducting Investigations: A…
Federal Contracting News Margaret Cassidy quoted in Bloomberg Law Federal Contracting on the Trump Administration’s plans for enforcing federal government contracting “Buy American” laws and regulations and whether the government will use the False Claims Act to enforce them. Read the article online or download the Bloomberg Law PDF here which includes my thoughts and those of others…