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Businesses are moving artificial intelligence from experiments into core workflows that affect product development, branding, content creation, research, enforcement, and legal services. Much of the business conversation around AI has focused on productivity, pricing models, and efficiency. Those considerations still matter, but they no longer capt…

Wildfire has always been part of Idaho life. For developers, builders, lenders, insurers, and property owners, it is now becoming something more specific: a front-end development issue. Wildfire readiness is a legal and business planning issue impacting site selection, emergency access, building materials, land management, real estate, construction…

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, commonly known as FDNS, supports the integrity of the immigration system by detecting and deterring benefit fraud, conducting site visits, and carrying out administrative investigations. For employers, that means the information submitted in…

Immigration-related site visits are a routine but important part of employment-based immigration compliance. Depending on the program, a government officer may seek to verify information in an immigration filing, confirm the worksite, review employment records, or ask limited questions about a sponsored employee’s job duties, wage, schedule, or r…

The first 10 minutes of onboarding can set the tone for a successful employment relationship and can also prevent avoidable immigration compliance issues. For employers hiring foreign national employees, the goal is not to create a separate or more burdensome process. Rather, HR should use a structured, consistent onboarding protocol that confirms …

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc. is one of the most important Hatch-Waxman decisions for generic drug launch planning in years. The Court reversed the Federal Circuit and held that Amarin had not plausibly pleaded that Hikma actively induced infringement of Amarin’s cardiova…