8/26/2025 3:40:00 PM Sixth Circuit Provides Clarity about Application of Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine to Internal Investigations By Jeffrey A. Zager Satchel Fowler Business entities facing civil, criminal, or regulatory threats frequently turn to law firms to conduct internal investigations, which...
11/21/2023 4:06:00 PM Elevated Lead Levels Found in Children's Fruit Pouches: Anatomy of a Recall By Christine Lawson An audio summary of this article is available in the player below. Scroll to keep reading. Listen and subscribe to Womble Perspectives...
8/15/2023 1:48:00 PM Chew on this...Xylazine Legislation Is Here By Womble Bond Dickinson Xylazine is a non-scheduled, non-opioid sedative/analgesic medication that is widely used in veterinary medicine. Xylazine was first...
3/10/2023 9:34:00 PM Ramifications of FDA's Proposed Action Levels for Heavy Metals in Baby Food By Jon Fligg Christine Lawson This article from the attorney perspective is accompanied by an article from the medical perspective on lead exposures. See "Lead...
1/24/2023 5:17:00 PM Take a Bite out of Crime: There's More than One Way to Stem the Flow of Counterfeit Medications By Gloria Malpass Madeline Campbell A growing problem in the U.S. is the widespread availability of counterfeit medications, or fake prescription pills. These drugs, made to...
10/11/2022 4:42:00 PM Biden's Statement on Marijuana Reform: What Does it Mean? By Morgan Persinger While states continue moving to legalize cannabis, change has been slower to nonexistent at the federal level. That may have changed last...
9/29/2022 3:29:00 PM Don't Cry: New Consumer Product Legislation Is Intended to Enhance Baby Safety By Womble Bond Dickinson Today we are taking a break from posting about personal injury litigation, and instead looking at efforts to prevent injuries in our most...
8/31/2021 7:41:00 PM You Can't Get a Nursing Degree at Law School By Kim Beane Did you spend three years in law school learning medical definitions and abbreviations? What about how to organize records into hospital...
7/12/2021 9:39:00 PM While Legislative Hurdles Remain, We Take a Look at North Carolina's Medical Marijuana Bill By Morgan Persinger North Carolina's move to join the overwhelming majority of states that have legalized the use of medical marijuana recently took a small,...
7/8/2021 6:09:00 PM The Re-Emergence of Ecstasy - But Not at the Club By Madeline Campbell In August of 2017, the FDA granted breakthrough therapy designation to MDMA (a.k.a., Ecstasy/Molly) for the treatment of Post-Traumatic...
5/11/2021 7:18:00 PM The U.S. Government Says "Open Sesame": How Science Informs the Regulatory Process By Womble Bond Dickinson On April 23, the President signed the Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education and Research Act of 2021 into law, which declares sesame...
3/23/2021 2:26:00 PM What's In A Name? How Should Cell-Based Seafood Be Labeled? By Christine Lawson Cell-based or cell-cultured seafood products (seafood products grown in a bioreactor from tissue specimens from fish / seafood) are not...
3/9/2021 2:33:00 PM The Analysis of Cell Free DNA in Urine for Cancer Diagnosis - A Prospective Alternative to Liquid Biopsy? By Womble Bond Dickinson A promising new technology may make the diagnosis of cancer and genetic mutation testing as easy as performing a urinalysis as part of an...
3/4/2021 7:46:00 PM Are Your Baby's Strained Carrots Safe? Considerations for Manufacturers By Jon Fligg Christine Lawson Are baby foods subject to stricter standards than adult foods? The short answer is, not really. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
2/11/2021 4:32:00 PM Virginia is for... Cannabis Lovers... in 2024? By Morgan Persinger While adult-use cannabis legalization has been gaining popular support across the country, many state legislatures have been slow to...
2/9/2021 4:04:00 PM Legal Challenge to the FDA's Approval of "Blood" in Plant-Based Meat By Christine Lawson By now, most of us have seen plant-based "meat" in supermarkets and restaurants. For one of those plant-based meat substitutes,...