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Can A Facebook Status Update Violate A Non-Compete?

If departing employees update their social media followers – including clients – about a new job, does that violate non-compete […]

WellPoint Inc. Fires GC John Cannon, “Without Cause”

WellPoint Inc., the second-biggest U.S. health insurer, fired its GC and former interim CEO John Cannon, “without cause.” Thomas Zielinski, […]

Paul Kaleta To GC Of First Solar Inc.

First Solar Inc of Tempe, Ariz., has named Paul Kaleta as executive VP & general counsel. Most recently, Kaleta was […]

Thomas G. Seaman Named GC At Teladoc

Teladoc announced that Thomas G. Seaman will serve as senior vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer. Seaman joins […]

Mike McDevitt, Former Medifast CEO, Heads Tandem Legal Group

Mike McDevitt, the former leader of weight-loss company Medifast is co-founder of Tandem Legal Group, a new Washington, D.C., law […]

2, 4, 6, 8…NFL Cheerleaders Not “Rah Rah-ing” About Pay Rate

Major league sports teams are under fire with wage and hour class-action lawsuits: two NFL teams’ cheer squads are suing for hours violations and MLB interns are claiming minimum wage violations.

Risqué Business: Controlling Employee Conduct Through Morality Clauses

A “morality clause,” a contractual provision that affords employers to set moral standards, ethical expectations, and consequences for conduct that the employer determines to be disreputable, is a growing trend in industries that place a premium on public image. Some best practices for including such a clause in employment agreements.

Vegas vacation protected by the FMLA

The Seventh Circuit found an employee took her ailing mother on a bucket list trip to Las Vegas should not have had her FMLA leave request denied, nor should she have lost her job, a departure from other court decisions maintaining medical treatment is the sole justification for traveling under FMLA.

Supreme Court To Consider Gov’t Regulation Of Greenhouse Gases

The Supreme Court today will consider the Environmental Protection Agency’s right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, though the scope of […]

Serial Forum-Shoppers May Be Tripped By Calif. Court Ruling

Plaintiff lawyers who engage in forum-shopping could have a somewhat harder time of it, given the denial of class action […]

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