April 22, 2019 | Corporate Counsel
Tough Talk or Extortionate Threats: When an Aggressive Demand Crosses the LineRecent headlines highlight a conundrum frequently presented to in-house counsel: When does an overly aggressive demand for settlement rise to the level of extortion?
By Gregory C. Keating and Thomas J. Knecht
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February 01, 2011 | Corporate Counsel
Healthy, Wealthy, and WiseImmunize your company from a wage and hour class action epidemic.
By Gregory C. Keating and Lisa Schreter
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March 07, 2011 | Texas Lawyer
Inoculate Employers Against Wage-and-Hour Class ActionsHealth-care employers have faced an onslaught of wage-and-hour class actions over the last few years, say Gregory C. Keating and Lisa Schreter. It all started in 2008, with a localized outbreak of class and collective actions filed against hospital systems in Rochester, New York. It has now become an epidemic, with the filing of nearly identical cases against large health-care systems throughout the Northeast during 2009. And more recently, another 22 class and collective actions were filed in federal and state courts against major New York-area hospital systems.
By Gregory C. Keating and Lisa Schreter
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