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August 01, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Keepers of the Frame: How a GC Can Fill the Frame to the Employer's Benefit

Frames must encompass an alternative reality, not merely be a response to the other side's frame. They must be authentic, internally consistent and passionately believed.
6 minute read
November 03, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Justices to Hear Case of Quashed Appeal of $18 Mil. Verdict

The state Supreme Court has granted an appeal to a grocery store chain whose lower court appeal of an $18.5 million verdict against it was quashed for failure to file a post-trial motion.
6 minute read
February 04, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

The Pitfalls of Recession Planning

You don't need a weather vane to know which way the wind is blowing, and you don't need a Wall Street Journal subscription to know we're in a recession. Yes, there is a dispute about whether this is so, but disaster � when you're in its midst � is hard to detect.
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January 07, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Dealing With Dysfunctional Counsel

General counsel manage lawyers, either in-house or out. Those lawyers must deal with dysfunctional opposing counsel, who often profit from their nuttiness and are just as often unrepentant about it. It takes a toll, making the GCs' lawyers less efficient and more miserable. What's to be done?
4 minute read
February 21, 2005 | National Law Journal

When Lawsuits Happen

A five-step program on how to fix things when a general counsel is looking up at the moral high ground and not down from it.
8 minute read
August 30, 2004 | National Law Journal

Movers

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Murry B. Cohen, a former justice on the Texas 1st Court of Appeals in Houston, joins as partner in the firm's Houston office�and other notable personnel shifts.
5 minute read
March 04, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Good Faith and the EEOC Conciliation Process

2009 is off to a bad start for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. On Jan. 15, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did a throw down to the EEOC and its conciliation process. Attorney Michael P. Maslanka looks at Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Agro Distribution LLC and talks about the commission's conciliation process. This case is a big deal, Maslanka says. It affects how every employer deals every day with the EEOC.
5 minute read
October 06, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Plan Now for the Impact of the Employee Free Choice Act

Americans will elect a new president and Congress next month. A lot is riding on the outcome. Here's one of particular importance for general counsel: the fate of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). U.S. Sen. Barack Obama supports it; U.S. Sen. John McCain does not.
6 minute read
August 16, 2005 | Legaltech News

The Right Response to Employee Blogs

Once upon a time, Web logs were benign: a person just sharing his idle, diary-like thoughts on the World Wide Web, a Haight-Ashbury of cyberspace. But nothing so simple and refreshingly naive lasts long, says attorney Michael P. Maslanka. When an employee blogs a C-level executive's company, what's the response? There are two mind-sets: the first, opportunistic and business-based (let's learn, channel and leverage); the second, repressive and legalistic (let's regulate, squash and punish).
6 minute read
October 20, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

'Inside Sales' Exemption Missing From Revised N.J. Overtime Rules

New Jersey, in revamping its overtime exemptions this year to make them friendlier to employers, inadvertently stripped away a provision employers had long enjoyed.
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