Risk Management

How Ban-The-Box May Increase Race Discrimination

Employers prevented by law from filtering out job applicants on the basis of their criminal history may be turning instead […]

What Next For Uber-Driver Litigation?

Now that the controversial proposed settlement of an Uber-driver class action has been rejected by Judge Edward M. Chen of […]

Appeals Decision Tightens Noose On Trade Secret Theft

A recent decision from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, continuing what appears to be a trend moving […]

Lessons From Gawker’s Downfall

When it was sued by Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, after posting video of Hogan having sex with […]

Antitrust Issues With Joint Ventures

Joint ventures between big horizontal competitors are allowed, even though at first glance they might seem to violate antitrust laws. […]

Appeals Court Backs Obama’s Carbon Accounting

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an industry attempt to overturn Obama administration math assumptions regarding the “social […]

Don’t Let “Shadow IT” Take Hold In The Legal Department

“Employees are now becoming empowered to take workplace technology adoption into their own hands,” writes Wafik Guirgis in Today’s General […]

Massive Negligence Suits Threaten Pricewaterhouse

PricewaterhouseCoopers is having to defend against negligent audit allegations in three major U.S. lawsuits, including one in Florida state court […]

Yale, M.I.T. & NYU Retirement Funds Gouge Employees, Say Plaintiffs

A plaintiff lawyer who has successfully targeted corporations for failing to properly administer employee retirement plans is now going after […]

Is Dissing Hillary At Work “Sexual Harassment”?

What people can say at work without it being labeled as harassment has become a contentious issue and the subject […]

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