Jen Rubin

August 31, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

Corporate counsel are well positioned to play a key role in focusing their companies on the case for DEI, whether premised on fundamental fairness, correcting for historical underrepresentation, or aligning with the shareholder goal of profitability.

By Jen Rubin and Narges Kakalia

7 minute read

August 31, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

The crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege merits attention for counsel, who should consider the potential areas of risk and some mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of communications.

By Greer Clem and Jen Rubin

8 minute read

January 02, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

A new generation of tech savvy, social justice-focused and environmentally aware employee stakeholders are creating recruitment, retention and other employment challenges.

By Jen Rubin

5 minute read

January 23, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

Little guidance exists about how to advise a group of individuals who are as diverse in their background as they are in their approach to avoiding, navigating and resolving legal disputes.

By Jen Rubin

6 minute read

March 06, 2019 | The Recorder

The perpetual search for a work-around to California's prohibition on employee non-competes was stymied again when a California Superior Court refused to dismiss outright an intentional interference with contract claim based upon an allegedly illegal long-term employment contract.

By Jen Rubin

7 minute read

August 21, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

An accused CEO should stand in the same shoes as any other employee in this regard—the difference is the involvement of the board, perhaps a heightened degree of confidentiality, and the organization's choice of investigator to represent the organization or conduct the investigation, or both.

By Jen Rubin

6 minute read