Cadwalader Bound, Epic Win, Spitzer Sanctioned: The Morning Minute
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March 01, 2019 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
|NEW HOME - Three Boies Schiller Flexner partners in New York have bounced to Cadwalader, where they'll launch a trial practice group. Christine Simmons reports that Sean O'Shea, Michael Petrella and Amanda Devereux are expected to join Cadwalader today as litigation partners, with O'Shea serving as chair of the firm's trial practice group. The lawyers, who moved to Boies Schiller when it acquired O'Shea Partners three years ago, focus on commercial and white-collar defense litigation.
EPIC DECISION - In less than a year, the SCOTUS split decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, which further bolstered the Federal Arbitration Act, has proven to be a strong weapon for the pro-arbitration defense bar. Erin Mulvaney and Ben Hancock report on an analysis by Law.com affiliate The National Law Journal of 92 decisions from U.S. courts of appeal and federal district courts that cited Epic in the seven months after it was handed down last May. The upshot? “It's one of the most important decisions from the Supreme Court that impacts workplace issues,” says Gerald Maatman, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago.
SPEAKING OF WHICH - Congressional Democrats have announced a package of bills that would ban forced arbitration of disputes over employment, consumer and antitrust issues and civil rights disputes. Charles Toutant reports that the bills come as major corporations such as Google Inc. are getting rid of mandatory arbitration for some employment disputes. Whether the measures will find bipartisan support is a separate issue.
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EDITOR'S PICKS
|Eliot Spitzer Ordered to Pay $133,000 for Discovery in Defamation Lawsuit
Takeaways From Wynn Resorts' $20M Penalty Over Sexual Misconduct Claims
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
|LEARNING CURVE - Companies are struggling to adapt to the GDPR which took effect last May, according to the EU's independent data protection authority. Phillip Bantz reports the office that hears and investigates privacy-related complaints received 298 complaints in 2018, a 111 percent increase over 2017.
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WHAT YOU SAID
“After 26 years, I've never forgotten it, all the experiences I went through: the denial, and shock, and sorrow, and sadness.”
— KENNETH CHIATE, PARTNER AT QUINN EMANUEL, WHO LOST HIS MALIBU, CALIFORNIA, HOME IN A 1993 WILDFIRE AND WHO FILED A LAWSUIT THIS WEEK AGAINST SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON ON BEHALF OF FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN DAVID DREIER.
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