By Susan DeSantis | May 29, 2018
The New York Law Journal asked Matt Funk, president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and is a senior partner at Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, to share his opinions on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on employment contracts and new laws on sexual harassment and scaffold protection.
By Tony Mauro | May 28, 2018
The former George W. Bush-era solicitor general prides himself and his appellate team at Kirkland & Ellis on being able to climb aboard fast-moving Supreme Court cases at the last minute.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Denise Elliott | May 27, 2018
As a labor and employment law attorney, when it comes to medical marijuana, the question I am most asked is “what does medical marijuana mean for our workplace and/or our drug-testing policies?”
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jeffrey Campolongo and Alisha L. McCarthy | May 25, 2018
It has been perhaps a disorienting couple of weeks for those keeping track of where, and how, employers can be sued by their employees. Take, for example, the May 10 step toward transparency in the #MeToo era by Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber), which announced that it will not push for individual sexual harassment and assault claims to be determined through private arbitration proceedings going forward.
By Cheryl Miller | May 25, 2018
Opponents of the bill—including the state Chamber of Commerce and drug-tester Quest Diagnostics—argued the proposed worker protections were too broad and threatened employers' statutory authority to maintain a drug-free workplace.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | May 25, 2018
King of Prussia-based Powell Trachtman, which is currently in the process of winding down, now faces a putative class action by one of its file clerks, who alleges the firm failed to pay overtime to its support staff.
By Marcia Coyle | May 25, 2018
There may be another way: "non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel." The concept is fairly established in the law, but it has not been used much. And judges and arbitrators have broad discretion whether to apply it in any given case.
By Xiumei Dong | May 24, 2018
After more than 11 years in operation and facing the prospect of an expensive new lease, San Francisco-based Duckworth Peters Lebowitz Olivier has broken up into three separate firms.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Michael Marciano | May 24, 2018
A formal ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. Friday, led by Westport First Selectman Jim Marpe. The new office is located at 246 Post Rd. East, on the second floor.
By John Council | May 24, 2018
A former legal secretary claiming she was fired from her job after posting Facebook messages critical of President Donald Trump has sued the all-Republican Court of Criminal Appeals and Judge Kevin Yeary.
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