The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Ben Seal | January 11, 2018
A Pennsylvania State Police trooper fired for unbecoming conduct after he was accused of harassment by a female trooper can return to work because the incidents that led to his dismissal were not proven at an arbitration hearing, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
By Ben Hancock | January 10, 2018
Heather Meeker of O'Melveny & Myers explains the recent license enforcement statements by major tech organizations and why sexual harassment is the "next shoe to drop" in the open source world.
By Erin Mulvaney | January 10, 2018
The rise in class action settlements and federal government workplace litigation last year is expected to soften as the Trump administration's takeover settles in, according to Seyfarth Shaw's annual workplace litigation report.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Sid Steinberg | January 10, 2018
“He said, she said” is one of the clearest paths to trial for a plaintiff claiming workplace harassment or discrimination. This is particularly so when the statements in question are explosive. A clear example of this conundrum for employers was addressed in the recent decision of El v. Advance Stores, No. 17-2345, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 211887 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 27, 2017).
By Meredith Hobbs | January 9, 2018
After growing his firm from 14 lawyers to nearly 200 over the course of four decades, Lash Harrison is stepping down to make way for a new leader based in Florida.
By Monika Mesa | January 8, 2018
The new hires will remain in their current office in Iselin, New Jersey.
By Ben Hancock | January 8, 2018
Conservative Bay Area lawyer Harmeet Dhillon is representing James Damore in a class action suit alleging political, gender and race discrimination by Google.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Charles F. Forer | January 8, 2018
Whenever Bob discusses arbitration with a client, he talks about the advantages of avoiding court proceedings. His first words always are, “You save so much money.” Bob has learned that his clients like to save money and that these savings are more important to them than the speed of arbitration or the ability to pick the decision-maker or the many other benefits that arbitration provides.
By Monika Mesa | January 8, 2018
Kimberly Cook and Valerie Shea are the latest of a group from Miami's Sedgwick office to land at other firms since Sedgwick announced it was shuttering its doors.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Christian Petrucci | January 4, 2018
There are those injured workers who seek to maintain activities of daily living through “passive modalities” such as massage therapy, ostensibly saving the insurance company the cost of much more expensive treatment. More numerous are those insurance carriers who do not consider massage therapy to be “medical treatment” at all, and seek to avoid paying for such care—ironically at any costs. “Wouldn't we all love to stay home from work and get a massage,” the cynical criticism goes.
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