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        "summary": "Challenges that keep business people awake at night focus on compliance with ever-changing legal requirements.",
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        "summary": "The 2008 presidential election, against the backdrop of a litany of woe--the housing, financial and automaker crises; a consumer confidence rate at the lowest level in recorded history; a plunging",
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        "summary": "As the global economy spirals into a recession and employee layoffs become more commonplace, business executives, human resources professionals and risk managers face significant challenges going",
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        "summary": "Amidst all the tension in Washington over the country's financial crisis and bailout proposals, you might have missed the fact that the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008--or",
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        "summary": "A revised 2-1 panel decision in Dukes, et al. vs. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the bellwether class action in 2007, issued in December, affirmed a class certification order in a gender discrimination action",
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        "summary": "With decentralized workplace laws creating a web of intersecting federal, state and local requirements, managing workplace issues has never been more complex. Moreover, legislative and regulatory",
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