Donald C Dowling Jr

November 03, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Donald C. Dowling Jr. writes: The mechanics for collecting acknowledgements from overseas staff raises challenges, and gets surprisingly complex.

By Donald C. Dowling Jr.

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February 11, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Donald C. Dowling Jr., international employment counsel at White & Case, writes: Almost every country has employment-release standards - ideal boilerplate release text and release execution formalities for an employee effectively to waive employment-severance claims. Complications arise whenever two (or more) jurisdictions' employee-protection laws might possibly reach a single employee, because a release tailored to the standards of just one of the jurisdictions leaves the employer exposed to a lawsuit filed in the courts of the other.

By Donald C. Dowling Jr.

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October 08, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Donald C. Dowling, Jr., counsel at White & Case, writes: "Where a multinational employer suffers a human resources data breach, breach-response strategy needs to account for the local laws of all jurisdictions of affected employees. Broadly, the geographical analysis breaks down into U.S. versus Europe versus the rest of the world. As to mandatory reporting obligations, the legal analysis breaks down into mandatory notice to affected employees versus notice to data protection authorities."

By Donald C. Dowling, Jr.

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September 25, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Donald C. Dowling Jr., international employment counsel at White & Case, writes that there are three general rules that almost always determine which country's employment laws apply to expatriates and other border-crossing employees. However, while these rules may be simple to state, they require a fairly detailed analysis to apply. Two recent cases from the U.K. highlight the difficulties of cross-border enforceability of choice-of-law and choice-of-forum clauses.

By Donald C. Dowling Jr.

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