Business law

In 2013 the genetic testing firm 23andMe received a cease-and-desist letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration forbidding it from selling its...

Protections and benefits shouldn’t be based on employment status alone.

Breaking down the key claims of the Federal Trade Commission's case - and the pros and cons of possible remedies.

Two recent rulings put new limits on patent law.

What businesses need to know about the Personal Data Protection Bill.

For a leader, a public apology is always a high-risk move. Understanding what apologies can and cannot do will help you avoid both foolhardy stonewalling and unnecessary contrition.

Regulators must shift attention from mergers to the consolidation of information.

An increasingly popular route to success as a small business owner is "acquisition entrepreneurship"--buying and running an existing operation. If you're...

A short history.

Address it directly with your lawyers from the start.

Mitigate, don’t litigate.

We talk about academia versus industry, but academia is an industry.

While Microsoft battles regulators in court, Intel stays above the fray. Here’s an inside look at the aggressive antitrust compliance program that Andy Grove put in place at the world’s biggest chip maker.

In a letter to outside counsel, a hypothetical CEO comments that although corporate lawsuits are expensive, time consuming, and often counterproductive,...

More than two decades have passed since affirmative action became law, thrusting the issue of racial diversity in the workplace into the open—and often into the crossfire. Today both government statistics and anecdotal evidence suggest that people of color make up a larger percentage of senior managers than at any point in the past. […]

Platform businesses such as Airbnb and Uber have risen to success partly by sidestepping laws and regulations that encumber their traditional competitors....

Right now, regulation presents a binary choice.

A celebrity’s baby is severely injured when her stroller tips over. Was it user error or a faulty product? The media go wild—and BestBaby faces a PR disaster.

Incoherent U.S. energy and climate policies have cast a pall over the entire economy and are putting U.S. companies at a serious global disadvantage....

How to make speaking up about harassment easier for everyone