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Savannah Law Prof Alleges Age Bias in Suit Against School

Maggie Tsavaris alleges that Savannah Law School and Atlanta's John Marshall Law School have a pattern of terminating faculty before they come up for tenure.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Ancient Common Law Faithless Servant Rule: Still Relevant in New York

The doctrine that faithless servants paid on a “task-by-task” basis need only to forfeit their salary relating to disloyal activities initially developed in federal courts interpreting New York law.
15 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Trial Lawyers Decry SCOTUS Decision Allowing Contracts Banning Class Actions

The New York Law Journal asked Matt Funk, president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and is a senior partner at Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, to share his opinions on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on employment contracts and new laws on sexual harassment and scaffold protection.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week: For Paul Clement, Jumping into a SCOTUS Case at the Last Minute is “What We Do”

The former George W. Bush-era solicitor general prides himself and his appellate team at Kirkland & Ellis on being able to climb aboard fast-moving Supreme Court cases at the last minute.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Medical Marijuana and Its Impact On the Workplace

As a labor and employment law attorney, when it comes to medical marijuana, the question I am most asked is “what does medical marijuana mean for our workplace and/or our drug-testing policies?”
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Decision Leaves Fate of Employee Class Actions to Congress and the Court of Public Opinion

It has been perhaps a disorienting couple of weeks for those keeping track of where, and how, employers can be sued by their employees. Take, for example, the May 10 step toward transparency in the #MeToo era by Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber), which announced that it will not push for individual sexual harassment and assault claims to be determined through private arbitration proceedings going forward.
7 minute read

The Recorder

California Spikes Proposed Workplace Marijuana Protections

Opponents of the bill—including the state Chamber of Commerce and drug-tester Quest Diagnostics—argued the proposed worker protections were too broad and threatened employers' statutory authority to maintain a drug-free workplace.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Powell Trachtman Hit With Overtime Suit by File Clerk

King of Prussia-based Powell Trachtman, which is currently in the process of winding down, now faces a putative class action by one of its file clerks, who alleges the firm failed to pay overtime to its support staff.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Plaintiffs Plot 'Way Around' Supreme Court's Ruling Against Worker Class Actions

There may be another way: "non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel." The concept is fairly established in the law, but it has not been used much. And judges and arbitrators have broad discretion whether to apply it in any given case.
7 minute read

The Recorder

San Francisco Litigation Shop Splits Into 3 Firms

After more than 11 years in operation and facing the prospect of an expensive new lease, San Francisco-based Duckworth Peters Lebowitz Olivier has broken up into three separate firms.
4 minute read

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