Adele Nicholas

September 30, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

See results of a survey on the rise of wage and hour litigation here. Brinker Restaurant Corp. was in deep trouble. In 2005, ...

By Adele Nicholas

14 minute read

June 30, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

In summer 2006, a clerk at Ralph's Thriftway drugstore in Olympia, Wash., received a fateful phone call. A female customer asked if the store carried ...

By Adele Nicholas

10 minute read

May 31, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Service employees file multimillion-dollar lawsuits over tip sharing.

By Adele Nicholas

13 minute read

April 30, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Supreme Court's Mendelsohn decision complicates employment litigation.

By Adele Nicholas

6 minute read

March 31, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Amid the ongoing national debate about immigration reform, states and municipalities throughout the U.S. have passed their own laws aimed at combating illegal immigration and ...

By Adele Nicholas

11 minute read

February 29, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

An inside look at the issues shareholders are proposing in 2008

By Adele Nicholas

1 minute read

January 31, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Each year Jerry Doran travels 550 miles from his home in Cottonwood, Calif., to visit Disneyland. In 2004 his annual vacation hit an unpleasant roadblock. ...

By Adele Nicholas

5 minute read

January 01, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

California knows a thing or two about patent law. For 12 consecutive years its university system has been the largest public recipient of U.S. patents--receiving ...

By Adele Nicholas

12 minute read

November 30, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Lane County, Ore., is not exactly a Mecca of consumer choice. When it comes to health care, for instance, the county's 323,000 residents have only ...

By Adele Nicholas

5 minute read

November 30, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

The Supreme Court dealt a decisive blow to many pending pay discrimination suits with its May decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. ...

By Adele Nicholas

2 minute read