Licks Attorneys’ Compliance Blog

The Governor of the State of São Paulo, João Agripino da Costa Doria Junior – better known as João Doria – sanctioned State Bill # 1212/2019 on December 1, 2020. The bill was authored by State Deputy Alex de Madureira as he is known, since his name is Alexander Muniz de Oliveira, being born in Piracicaba, SP, and affiliated with the Social Democratic Party (PSD).

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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the term spam refers to unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as emails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places.  While it is quite true that the most common means of spamming is via electronic mail or email, […]

The General Data Protection Law (LGPD) – Law 13.709 / 2018 – was designed to standardize the protection of personal data handled by third parties (individuals, companies, or the government) for commercial purposes.

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According to Reuters, Pfizer Inc. filed a lawsuit on June 26, 2020, to make it possible to help beneficiaries of the federal healthcare program – Medicare – pay for two drugs to treat a rare and sometimes fatal heart disease, and that cost $225,000 a year.

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Corruption is a topic that always attracts the attention of the media and society.  In some ways, it resembles a kind of metastatic societal cancer, in which a cell released into the bloodstream may burst like a new tumor, anytime, anywhere.

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