Employers would do well to remember that not all communications with counsel will per se be deemed protected under the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, and in conversations with outside counsel they should be explicit in stating they seek legal advice in anticipation of litigation.
Fewer wage and hour class action cases are leaving the federal court system for state courts after a 2013 Ninth Circuit ruling reduced the standard significantly.
Given the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, it’s time for information governance lawyers to rethink the data they collect and maintain – or that is collected and maintained on their behalf – and how it is stored, secured and accessed.
Legal departments already have solid information and can easily get more from the company’s finance group. It won’t be as […]
Frank Lindh, general counsel for the San Francisco-based California Public Utilities Commission, will resign from that post to join the […]
Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. announced the appointment of Jessica Oien as Vice President of Compliance. Prior to joining Pernix, Oien […]
Tech giant Apple has announced that CFO Peter Oppenheimer will retire at the end of September. Luca Maestri, Apple’s vice […]
The adidas AG Supervisory Board extended CEO Herbert Hainer’s contract by another two years beyond 2015, to March 2017, at […]
A woman wearing Google Glass precipitated a minor brawl in a San Francisco bar, in an incident that seems to […]
Female and minority candidates for judgeships are being held back by the American Bar Association, a new study suggests. The […]
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