Compliance

ABA Adopts Anti-Discrimination Conduct Rule

At a San Francisco meeting this week, the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates approved a new rule that makes […]

SEC Targets Illegal Severance Agreements

Atlanta-based BlueLinx Holdings Inc. broke the law when it required outgoing employees to waive their rights, the Securities and Exchange […]

Yale, M.I.T. & NYU Retirement Funds Gouge Employees, Say Plaintiffs

A plaintiff lawyer who has successfully targeted corporations for failing to properly administer employee retirement plans is now going after […]

The Challenge of Foreign Language Document Review

Cross border legal matters are no longer a rarity. In a recent FTI Consulting survey, two-thirds of Fortune 1000 respondents […]

Chevron Prevails In Suit Marred By Sex, Blackmail

Ecuadorean plaintiffs cannot collect a $9 billion judgment against Chevron just because they claim not to know the lawyers representing […]

States Vie To Provide Dodges For The Super-Rich

Among the revelations in the Panama Papers, that trove of purloined documents revealing how law firm Mossack Fonseca was helping […]

Is Dissing Hillary At Work “Sexual Harassment”?

What people can say at work without it being labeled as harassment has become a contentious issue and the subject […]

Sharp Increase In Securities Class Actions

The number of securities class action lawsuits this year is on track to be more than double the annual numbers […]

Information Governance Can Make Data an Asset

Failure to preserve relevant data in anticipation of litigation can result in sanctions, but over-preservation can also be…

Law Firm Owners May Be Liable For CFPB Violations

A federal district court in Wisconsin has held that the owners of two law firms may be held liable by […]

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