Archive for August, 2017

By: Veronica Canton Microsoft/HNBA IPLI Scholar & AAUW Fellow I worked as an IP litigation assistant before I started law school. One of the partners at my firm told me “Don’t skim through cases. Read the whole case.” That is one piece of advice I took to heart. Reading the whole case has taught me […]

By: Veronica Canton Microsoft/HNBA IPLI Scholar & AAUW Fellow I want you to think back to your life as a law school student.  Don’t cringe.  For some of you, it was a painful experience.  For others, it was a time of intellectual challenge and growth.  Do you remember asking other classmates for specifics about a […]

Each year HHS handles hundreds of millions of Medicare and Medicaid claims valued at over a trillion dollars. Due to the high volume of claims, statistical sampling provides a critical tool to ensure effective oversight of these expenditures. Sampling is used by the providers in their own efforts to monitor their performance and by the [...]