DCAA Executive Compensation Calculation Rejected (Again)
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 06.21.12
In Metron, Inc., decided on June 4 by the ASBCA, DCAA's flawed methodology for assessing the reasonableness of executive compensation paid by government contractors was rejected for the second time this year by the Board. The board found that Metron appropriately based its compensation decisions on data in a single survey that was most relevant to Metron's business, found that other survey data that DCAA relied on was not relevant to Metron's compensation costs, and rejected all of the "adjustments" that DCAA had made to the relevant survey data because the adjustments were based on speculation and assumptions that were not supported by factual evidence.
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Client Alert | 8 min read | 06.30.25
AI Companies Prevail in Path-Breaking Decisions on Fair Use
Last week, artificial intelligence companies won two significant copyright infringement lawsuits brought by copyright holders, marking an important milestone in the development of the law around AI. These decisions – Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta (decided on June 23 and 25, 2025, respectively), along with a February 2025 decision in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence – suggest that AI companies have plausible defenses to the intellectual property claims that have dogged them since generative AI technologies became widely available several years ago. Whether AI companies can, in all cases, successfully assert that their use of copyrighted content is “fair” will depend on their circumstances and further development of the law by the courts and Congress.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 06.30.25
Client Alert | 3 min read | 06.26.25
FDA Targets Gene Editing Clinical Trials in China and other “Hostile Countries”
Client Alert | 3 min read | 06.26.25
