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July 09, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Mixed Results From High Court in Key Bias Cases

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rewrote the textbook on employment discrimination law through an aggressive series of rulings limiting the rights of employees with job bias claims. Congress retaliated with the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Could the just-ended high court term trigger a Civil Rights Act of 2009?
7 minute read
May 30, 2011 | National Law Journal

MOVERS

Elisa�beth Blattner-Thompson joins Ballard Spahr's labor and employment group as partner in the Salt Lake City office. Plus, more law firm moves in this week's column.
3 minute read
August 09, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

From Jail to Jobless

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission commissioners are looking at possible revisions to the agency's 20-year-old background-check guidelines, a prospect that has alarmed the business community and triggered fears of burdensome new regulations.
9 minute read
March 18, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

GCs Should Treat Legal Fees as Execs Treat Business Issues

Attorney fees are in the spotlight with firms popping for first-year associate salaries of $160,000 plus. It doesn't take a Harvard MBA to know what business gets in the gut: They pay for the increases short term, their customers pay for it long term. What's to be done? Attorney Michael P. Maslanka advises GCs to treat legal fees the way C-level execs down the hall treat business issues that cross their desks. He provides five rules to help GCs do just that.
6 minute read
October 24, 2005 | National Law Journal

Movers

Drinker Biddle & Reath (Philadelphia): Guy W. Winters Jr. joins the corporate and securities practice group as partner in the firm's home office-and other personnel moves.
4 minute read
June 15, 2010 | Law.com

Three Law Firms Claim Success With New Apprenticeship Model

Nearly one year in, partners -- and participating associates -- at three law firms that started apprenticeship programs are pleased with the benefits of more extensive training. But so far, the new model has not caught on with any firm that isn't either litigation-focused or regional in scope.
8 minute read
January 29, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Encourage the General Counsel To Leave a Legal Legacy

Think that your company's legal culture is outside your purview? Think again. C-level execs need to pick lawyers whose vision creates a culture that benefits the business, not retards it. Here are five core principles general counsel need to instill in an organization to create a culture that will continue to generate smart decisions long after the GC leaves.
6 minute read
November 07, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Tough Tactics: Playing Legal Hardball

C-levels to the right, shareholders to the left, an oath to the law front and center. The two do mesh: Pick your fights; look for incremental change; understand that lawyering, like politics, is the art of the possible; and, never, ever be blinded to the truth.
7 minute read
May 04, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Minority firm breaking rules, making it work

Meyer White, a diverse 15-attorney labor and employment and intellectual property firm, has embraced alternative billing as its primary revenue generator.
6 minute read
November 29, 2010 | National Law Journal

On Borrowed Time

EEOC members are unconfirmed, but agenda is still ambitious.
9 minute read

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