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Understanding Ballparks – Our Guide to American Idioms for the Business World

June 12, 2017

Americans love sports and we certainly love to talk about it! So it is not surprising at all that a lot of terms and expressions from the world of sports have become omnipresent in everyday language and are often used in the business world too. If you have ever wondered what your American business partners…

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Italian Citizenship jure sanguinis via ancestor and equality treatment

June 6, 2017

For many reasons it now seems there is an enhanced interest in obtaining a citizenship other than a US one. While I believe that having a dual citizenship in general is always a good thing, having a US citizenship plus another from one the EU countries is even better. For one, once you are a…

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Donald Trump and the German Trade Surplus

June 2, 2017

Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy has been the subject to much controversy in global politics and trade making European powers, particularly Germany, nervous about the stability of their alliances with the United States. At a recent campaign rally in Munich German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated, “the times we can completely rely on others are…

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NC Court of Appeals’ Clarifications on ADA Reasonable Accomodations

May 19, 2017

The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) requires employers to provide accomodations to employees with disabilities so that they are able to perform the essential functions of the job. However, to what extent can employers experiment with such accommodations? A few weeks ago, in Rittelmeyer v. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina…

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Predictive Justice in France

May 10, 2017

Predictive Justice is a program developed by the start-up company Predictice that allows lawyers to assess their chances of winning a trial. Simply with a single click, an algorithm calculates the probability of resolving a dispute, the amount of available damages, and identifies the most influential elements in judicial decisions by searching through a database…

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Telecom Executives Agree to Pay Penalties for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violation

May 4, 2017

Sometimes foreign executives forget that U.S. law can reach them and their companies, particularly if they issue securities in the United States. The case of three former executives at Magyar Telekom, a telecommunications provider from Hungary, whom the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged with having violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is just…

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Phone scam using phone number from HHS Office of Inspector General’s hotline

April 24, 2017

The OIG hotline phone number for reporting fraud 1-800-HHS-TIPS has been spoofed. This means that thousands of individuals across the country have received scam phone calls with this seemingly trustworthy number appearing on the display. The callers managed to trick some of the individuals who answered the phone into giving and confirming personal information and…

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Brauchen U.S.-Bürger bald ein Visum für Reisen in die EU?

April 19, 2017

Wenn es nach dem EU-Parlament geht, dann schon. Am 02. März 2017 hat das Europäische Parlament positiv über die Abschaffung der bisher bestehenden Visumsfreiheit für amerikanische Staatsangehörige abgestimmt. Nun hat die Europäische Kommission die Aufgabe innerhalb der nächsten zwei Monate eine Visumspflicht für die Einreise in die Europäische Union einzuführen. Allerdings ist auch dieser Beschluss…

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Haribo to build its first U.S. manufacturing facility

April 13, 2017

This is great news for all those with a sweet tooth and a predilection for delicious gummi bears, and even more so for the county of Kenosha, Wisconsin.After an extensive search and a detailed selection process, the German-based confectionary company has decided to build its first U.S. manufacturing facility near the city of Kenosha, approximately…

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To ban or not to ban – Trump’s new Executive Order: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry

April 3, 2017

The new Executive Order signed by President Trump on March 6, 2017 was scheduled to be effective as of 12:01 am on March 16, 2017 and should have caused the US Department of State to reevaluate the current screening procedures in order to increase national security. In the evening of March 15, 2017, a federal…

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