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Corporate Counsel

Protecting Your Trade Secrets in a Recession

When a recession hits, businesses face challenges in protecting their intellectual property. One of the biggest issues is how to protect your trade secrets when employees are leaving the company due to layoffs or reorganization or simply to find a more stable position.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Employer Alert: DOL Issues Final Rule Extending Overtime to Over 1 Million Employees

The Department of Labor estimates the change will make about 1.2 million employees who are exempt from overtime under the current rule entitled to overtime pay.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I noticed that some large law firms are buying out their secretarial contracts and ultimately reducing their administrative costs. Is that a wise idea?
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Insider Trading Policies and Training: Time for a Refresher? Part 3

Counsel should be on the lookout for potential changes to the rules governing the stock trading plans corporate executives routinely rely on to trade company stock, or 10b5-1 plans.
7 minute read

The Recorder

San Francisco's Approach to the Affordable Housing Crisis

The potential impact of the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) on owners of multi-family residential buildings in San Francisco is significant.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Making a Lateral Move

One dangerous pitfall that attorneys must avoid is being pigeon-holed into a practice area that is not what they want in the long run. Most law firms will not hire attorneys for practice areas in which they have no experience.
6 minute read

Law.com

Seventh Circuit Forgoes Rehearing En Banc

Rehearing en banc is rare in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. A losing party in the Seventh Circuit has as great a chance of persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari as it does to persuade the Seventh Circuit to grant rehearing en banc.
7 minute read

The Recorder

AB-5 Opens Up Damages Claims That Go Far Beyond the Mere Codification of 'Dynamex'

AB-5 confirms that its express intent is "to codify the decision in the Dynamex case." Even counsel for Uber has characterized AB-5 as a codification of the 2018 Dynamex decision.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Arbitrators' Questions: Can They Cross a Line?

In his International Arbitration column, John Fellas asks: As long as an arbitrator does nothing that creates a successful basis to challenge an award, is she permitted to ask any question, even one she knows in advance is likely to assist one party and hurt the other?
13 minute read

New York Law Journal

What's the Use of Applying for Use Variances?

Although use variances are recognized under New York law, courts rarely uphold decisions to grant them – and rarely reverse decisions denying them. Property owners should carefully weigh the costs of applying for a use variance against the high probability that they ultimately may not be successful.
10 minute read

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