By Charles Toutant | June 29, 2018
A U.S. district court judge in Newark—upholding a deal to sell East Orange General Hospital out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy free and clear, without any successor liability—has ruled that a former employee's suit against the buyer was rightly dismissed.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Anthony E. Davis | June 29, 2018
In his column on Professional Responsibility, Anthony E. Davis compares a New York opinion with one from North Carolina, both addressing agreements that limit lawyers' rights to move between law firms.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Andrea M. Kirshenbaum and Benjamin S. Teris | June 29, 2018
In response to Gov. Tom Wolf's call to “modernize” Pennsylvania's overtime rules, on June 23, 2018 the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) proposed rulemaking to update the decades-old regulations applicable to three classes of overtime exempt employees under the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act (PMWA): executive, administrative, and professional (EAP).
By Erin Mulvaney | June 29, 2018
The photo of Juli Briskman giving the president the bird rocketed around the web and late-night TV. Attorneys for Akima LLC and Briskman argued Friday in Virginia court over whether the company's termination violated the public policy exception of Virginia's at-will employment scheme.
By Erin Mulvaney | June 28, 2018
“It's not a right versus left, conservative versus liberal issue,” Seyfarth Shaw's Sam Schwartz-Fenwick said. “It will be about the specific question that is presented.”
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | June 28, 2018
Neelima Vanguri was named The Legal's 2018 Attorney of the Year on Wednesday night at a celebratory event in Philadelphia, honored for her pioneering work on the transgender rights case Blatt v. Cabela's Retail.
By Erin Mulvaney | June 28, 2018
New LGBT workplace cases are arriving at the U.S. Supreme Court now, just as Anthony Kennedy is leaving the bench. We've got early labor-and-management reaction to thinking about the post-Kennedy court. Plus: Scroll down for the latest moves, and a quick word on a big new age-discrimination case.
By Dan Packel | June 27, 2018
A Northern Virginia-based Venezuelan attorney has been battling the firm for two decades over benefits he says he was denied after being fired from predecessor Macleod Dixon.
By Larry Carbo and Kellen Scott | June 27, 2018
Courts routinely enforce arbitration agreements and order employees or former employees to pursue the relief they seek in an arbitral forum and, if appropriately drafted, on an individual basis rather than as part of a class.
By Dan M. Clark | June 27, 2018
The court, in a 4-2 reversal from the Appellate Division, found that comments made by a hospital official to a government investigator were not protected by absolute privilege.
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