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New York Law Journal

Impact of Salary History Bans on Asset Deals

In their Employment Law column, Jeffrey S. Klein and Nicholas J. Pappas propose strategies buyers may wish to consider in seeking to comply with California law.
9 minute read

International Edition

JunHe Recruits Insolvency Partner From King & Wood Mallesons

Yang Li advised on the $10 billion bankruptcy case of state-owned Dongbei Special Steel last year.
2 minute read

The Recorder

Ripple Labs Brings on Former Top SEC Officials to Help Defend Private Securities Lawsuit

Former SEC chair Mary Jo White and her enforcement chief Andrew Ceresney, both now at Debevoise, are representing the fintech company alongside co-counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in a private investor suit claiming Ripple's XRP tokens are unregistered securities.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Recent Noncompete, Trademark Infringement and Nonsignatory Franchise Precedents

During the last 12 months or so, franchise precedents rendered in the areas of covenants of noncompetition and trademark infringement have been numerous.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

South Florida Attorneys Secure $21 Million Verdict for Widow of Cancer Patient

Gary Paige, of Gordon & Doner, and Hardee Bass, of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, secured $14 million in punitive damages and another $7 million in compensatory damages for client Faye Theis.
1 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Congress Needs to Amend the Alien Tort Statute

The Supreme Court has declined to move beyond the plain language of the Alien Tort Statute and essentially invited Congress to act. We join in that invitation.
1 minute read

Legaltech News

Mandatory Arbitration Agreements May Not be Immutable in Cryptocurrency Litigation

Public access prevailed in the Eleventh Circuit's recent Leidel v. Coinbase decision, which provides insight for how aggrieved investors may be able to draft pleadings against third-party money service providers.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

In Crypto Litigations Mandatory Arbitration Agreements May Not be Immutable

Permissionless blockchains, like the one underlying the bitcoin payment network, were created to provide the public with transparency over transaction information and records.
1 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Technological Advancements Can Be Stranger Than Fiction

One technology, individualized advertising, is starting to attract serious attention from both the bar and bar regulators.
1 minute read

The Recorder

In New Theranos Book, Boies Schiller Doesn't Come Off So Great

Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of corporate fraud at Theranos depicts Boies Schiller Flexner as using hardball tactics to keep the truth from coming out. David Boies says it's an overdramatization.
1 minute read

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