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Corporate Counsel

COVID-19 Conditions Could Lead to Grocery Employees Unionizing

"The pandemic has created fertile soil for unionizing specifically in the area of safety and pay," Jonathan Segal, a partner and managing principal at Duane Morris in Philadelphia, said.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Legal Departments Are Spending too Much Time on Unplanned COVID-19 Work

"Twenty percent of the time spent on unplanned work is wasted," said Vidhya Balasubramanian, managing vice president in Gartner's legal and compliance practice. "That's over a thousand work hours in a year at a typical $1 billion company with 10 full-time employees in the legal department."
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Counsel Should Create Re-Exit Plan to Prepare for COVID-19 Case Spike

"I think general counsel will be well received if they focus on not only what can't be done, which might mean coming into a building, but potentially what may be able to be done," Jonathan Segal, a partner at Duane Morris in Philadelphia, said.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Legal Departments Are Expanding Use of Alternative Fee Arrangements

"Legal departments are more creative in breaking a matter down to its component parts in order to find ways to get at least a little predictability on what they are going to spend," Kristina Satkunas, director of strategic consulting at LexisNexis CounselLink in Richmond, Virginia, said.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Frozen Visas Bring New Risk and More Compliance Headaches to Legal Departments

Corporate legal departments may find themselves taking on more work—and passing some of that load onto outside counsel—as a result of the Trump administration's temporary visa suspension.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

General Counsel Share Why Their Companies Made Juneteenth a Paid Holiday

General counsel from Mastercard, Adobe and Eventbrite share why their companies are observing Juneteenth and how their employee resource groups and diversity and inclusion groups helped make it happen.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Counsel Concerned Over Liabilities Associated With COVID-19

"We don't really know what is going to come out from a liability standpoint from COVID-19," Alka Ramchandani-Raj, of counsel at Littler Mendelson, said. "Some cases may be brought with regards to safety violations. There have also been inquiries from plaintiffs attorneys on WARN Act requirements."
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What Asia's COVID-19 Experience Suggests for the West's Return to Work

The pandemic's origination in Asia provides an opportunity for Western-based employers to anticipate what working in the post-pandemic world may look like.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What Are In-House Counsel Doing Now, Weeks Into the COVID-19 Pandemic?

General counsel and labor and employment lawyers say that weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic in-house lawyers are scrambling to keep up with changes in government regulations and guidelines as organizations try to cope with everything from shutdown orders to labor shortages.
18 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky Over Fired Employee: 'I Let My Emotions ... Get the Better of Me'

Zapolsky is facing a growing scandal, based on leaked internal meeting notes, that he bad-mouthed an ex-employee who organized a strike at a warehouse in New York over coronavirus-related concerns.
4 minute read

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