On Monday, April 14, 2025, a federal jury convicted Eduardo “Eddie” Lopez of conspiring to fix the wages for home healthcare nurses in Las Vegas and for fraudulently failing to disclose the criminal antitrust investigation...more
4/16/2025
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Corporate Counsel ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employment Litigation ,
Healthcare ,
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Wage-Fixing ,
Wire Fraud
On November 12, 2024, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) published updated guidance for its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Antitrust Investigations. First published in...more
On November 13, 2023, the DOJ Antitrust Division moved to dismiss its last remaining no-poach indictment. In 2021, a Texas grand jury indicted Surgical Care Affiliates (“SCA”) and a related company for conspiring with...more
Human resources ("HR”) departments have historically had little reason to hold antitrust law top of mind, as there was little in the way of enforcement activity concerning personnel issues. In recent years, however,...more
4/23/2018
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Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
No-Poaching ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Wage-Fixing