Litigation

Harnessing Technology For Legal Compliance

The cost of corporate noncompliance includes not only fines, sanctions and lawsuits, but pernicious long-term damages, including distraction for the […]

Greenpeace Beats Back A RICO Suit

A federal judge in the Northern District of California has dismissed a potentially $300 million RICO lawsuit filed by a […]

Is The “Patent Troll” Narrative A Red Herring?

The “pro-patent lobby” finally appears to be getting its act together, at least from a media and PR standpoint…

Arbitration Clauses In, Cordray On His Way Out

A rule years in the making that would have allowed consumers to file class actions against financial institutions has been […]

Blistering Critique Of IP Litigation Fees In UK

Aaron Wood, a trademark attorney and founder of law firm Wood IP, claims that high fees in IP lawsuits are […]

More Website Accessibility Lawsuits Under The ADA

Plaintiffs are claiming that websites are also public spaces and need to be accessible, by way of such things as captions or audio descriptions. This has proven to be a grey area…

Supreme Court Often Cites Factual And Statistical Falsehoods In Its Rulings

An article in ProPublica documents numerous instances in which the U.S. Supreme Court, in matters ranging from trivial to momentous, […]

Sessions Cracking Down On Marijuana

Thanks to an obscure provision in a budget bill passed at the end of the Obama administration, the DOJ doesn’t […]

sexual harassment

If An Employee Claims Sexual Harassment, Whose Interest Does HR Represent?

Revelations about film mogul Harvey Weinstein, and with it a growing awareness that sexual harassment may be deeply ingrained in […]

Post-Equifax, States Crack Down On Cybersecurity

The Equifax breach has prompted a number of states to launch investigations of the company and has triggered enforcement actions […]

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