Thomas Phillips

February 23, 2017 | Law.com

 Kirk Jenkins likes to know the odds. As an undergrad at Harvard, the Chicago-based Sedgwick partner built regression models to predict decisions…

By Ben Hancock

2 minute read

January 12, 2017 | Law.com

Vaughn Walker, the retired chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, made waves last fall when he teamed up with…

By Ben Hancock

2 minute read

December 28, 2016 | Law.com

A North Carolina court has affirmed a state agency's decision denying an employee's workers' compensation claim for injuries sustained at her employer's annual holiday party, concluding that the injury had not arisen out of or in the course of her employment.

By Steven A. Meyerowitz, Esq., Director, FC&S Legal

9 minute read

December 07, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Philadelphia Bar Foundation dropped Andrew Hamilton's name from its major annual fundraiser for legal groups, according to philly.com.

By THOMAS PHILLIPS

3 minute read

November 03, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Facebook denied UK insurance company Admiral's plan to scan potential customers' posts on the social network to gather information used in setting their individual prices, according to Business Insider.

By Thomas Phillips

3 minute read

October 27, 2016 | National Law Journal

As an allegation surfaced accusing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of groping a young lawyer in 1999, social media responded by connecting the dots.

By Thomas Phillips

9 minute read

October 25, 2016 | Law.com

The former general counsel of Connecticut-based commodities trader Gerald Metals sued the company Tuesday for gender and age discrimination, saying that she was denied pay increases on par with male attorneys and forced to tolerate a “good ol' boy” work environment.

By Ben Hancock

4 minute read

October 12, 2016 | Law.com

Days after it came down, the employment bar is still dissecting a complicated en banc ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that says older job applicants can't bring discrimination suits based on a theory of disparate impact.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

6 minute read

October 10, 2016 | Law.com

Hollywood's largest unions have asserted claims in the federal government's forfeiture case over “The Wolf of Wall Street,” with one guild acknowledging it was conducting an internal audit of the production company behind the 2013 film.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

September 13, 2016 | Law.com

The gender discrimination suit against Chadbourne & Parke is getting juicier.

By Vivia Chen, The Careerist

4 minute read