Risk Management

Lawyer’s Presence Made Firing Deliberations Privileged

The presence of an in-house lawyer on a company’s “Termination Review Committee” was enough to render the committee’s deliberations privileged, […]

Ten Ways to Improve Your Arbitration Clause

Companies can do better for themselves than the typical boilerplate in the arbitration provisions of their consumer and business contracts, […]

Sustainability Accounting Standards As The New GAAP

A hundred years ago, basic corporate financials were considered nobody’s business but the company’s. It took the depression of the […]

Legalized Weed Is Still Dangerous

Pressure at the state/federal marijuana law fault line continues to build. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, as a Schedule […]

The Regulatory Challenge of Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles are coming soon, and with them unprecedented regulatory challenges, although it’s not the first time that regulators and […]

Legal Competence And The Role Of Technological Expertise

In addition to understanding the technology of their client’s business, lawyers need to understand the technology that is part of […]

CA Ban On Non-Competes Has Exceptions

California is widely cited as the prime example of a jurisdiction where, for better or for worse, non-compete agreements are […]

12-Year High For Employee Drug Tests

A study found an uptick in the percentage of positive urine drug tests among workers in 2016, when it hit […]

Trade Secret “Inevitable Disclosure” Not Dead Yet

Some have assumed that the doctrine of inevitable disclosure was put to rest by the passage of the Defend Trade […]

Fingerprint “Time Clock” Garners Class Action

An employment case filed in the Northern District of Illinois has opened a “new employment frontier,” says a post from […]

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