Litigation

Hourly Rate, Even For Litigation, Increasingly Scarce

Litigation – long seen as the last holdout for hourly billing – is increasingly being billed with alternative methods, now […]

FTC Data Breach Action Raises Insurance Issue

Add another item to the list of  problems can follow a data breach. A district court in New Jersey has […]

MLB Volunteers Not Employees Under FLSA, Court Rules

Volunteers who perform services for an “amusement or recreational establishment,” which operates for less than seven months of the year, […]

LinkedIn May Be Sued For Misrepresenting Security Practices, Judge Rules

A California judge who earlier had ruled that a class action could not certified against the social media site, said […]

Where To Try Hackers? Appeals Court Overturns Prison Sentence, Citing Wrong Venue

A mistake in choosing what state to try a self-described “Internet troll” who stole more than 114,000 AT&T customers’ data […]

SCOTUS Ruling Increases Private Company Risk – Imminent Need for Business Ethics Training

Private contractors working for public companies are now covered under the Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower protections, leading many to review their compliance programs with fresh eyes.

The Most Litigious NPEs in 2013

In what’s described as an effort to bring “transparency to the monetization market” and what some will no doubt call […]

Narrow Is The Gate For Workplace Gossip Policies

What some employers might consider a benign attempt to protect against hurt feelings or just harmless institutional boosterism …

Supreme Court Decisions Make Arbitration Compulsory

In a trio of decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court has outlined a mechanism that could eviscerate commercial as well as […]

Sharp Words At The Supreme Court, in CLS Bank v. Alice Case

The process described in the patent, Justice Breyer seemed to suggest, was more or less the same one his mother used when she rode herd on his checkbook.

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