Litigation

Executive Sex Discrimination Case Rivets Silicon Valley

The high-profile sex discrimination case filed by Ellen Pao, a former partner at tech venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield […]

“IoT” Will Change Everything, Including The Practice Of Law

More sensors means more data, and more data means more – and different kinds of – evidence. And of course sensors can be…

Court: No Privilege For Lawyers Running Risk Management

In a case where a company tried to use attorney-client privilege to block some internal communications from being introduced in […]

Strategies For Minimizing Risk Of Privacy Class Actions

Plaintiff attorneys are invoking both federal statutes, like the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), and state statutes, like California’s Invasion […]

Prepare In Advance For A Proxy Battle

Defense of a proxy challenge is a daunting challenge and an expensive one, writes Kroll’s Dave Holley. He cites a […]

Turbulent Mix: ADA, FMLA And Workers’ Comp

What happens when an employer needs to field a situation where an employee is covered by three distinct but overlapping […]

Renegade Alabama Judges Have Law On Their Side

When Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore pointed out that state judges are not bound by lower federal court decisions-in this […]

Illinois Justice Has Conflict In $10B Case, Plaintiffs Claim

An Illinois Supreme Court justice re-elected with funding from a Republican fund bankrolled in part by the Altria Group, Phillip […]

Reconsidering The Cease-And-Desist

“In the world of despised legal correspondence, few things beat cease-and-desist letters,” writes Winston & Strawn attorney Peter Perkowski, and […]

Beating A Non-Compete Disguised As A Non-Solicit

Even in areas where California is decidedly pro-employer, such as limiting the enforcement of non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, the result […]

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