Litigation

Volkswagen Hires BP’s Oil Spill Legal Team

After revealing that it deliberately misled regulators and customers over the environmental performance of its diesel-engine vehicles, Volkswagen has hired […]

Is Your Company Ready For A Government Raid?

Respected corporations often see a government search warrant as a disaster that happens to hardened wrongdoers, but the circumstances leading […]

Your Chances On Appeal And How You Can Improve Them

Appellate lawyer Jason P. Steed taps experience and statistics to answer  common questions about appeals. Will we get oral argument? […]

Executives In The Crosshairs: Unpacking The Yates Memo

A legal alert from McGuire Woods, following the release earlier this month of the Yates Memo, in which the Justice […]

New Interest in Empowering States to Tax Remote Sales

Under the Supreme Court’s 1992 decision in Quill v. North Dakota, a retailer is not required to collect sales taxes […]

Speak-Up Culture Reduces Whistleblower Risk

The government has been scrutinizing “facially neutral” policies and agreements, including confidentiality agreements, on the grounds they may be squelching […]

Workers Can’t Be Fired For Defending Themselves Violently, Utah Court Rules

The Utah Supreme Court ruled last week that employees who resort to violence when they feel that they are in […]

Litigation Wave Coming

General counsel, chief information officers and chief financial officers are advised to prepare for a coming wave of cyber-litigation, in […]

Twitter Sued Over Direct Message Algorithm

A potential class action lawsuit filed against Twitter in California claims that the social media site’s method of automatically replacing […]

A Class Action Fount Dries Up in CA

California, for once instead of leading has joined the rest of the country with the signing of a new law […]

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