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The Legal Intelligencer

Managing IP Ownership Issues With Employment Agreements

This article advocates for having in-house or retained counsel make periodic reviews of corporate employment agreements and for having counsel involved in any new hire where there is strong likelihood that the position will lead to the creation of IP.
10 minute read

The Recorder

Walmart Case in 9th Circuit Tests Scope of Workplace Protest Rights

The Obama-era labor board ruled for a group of employees who were fired after staging a demonstration inside a Walmart. A coalition of major business groups, backing Walmart in the appeal, call the NLRB decision a “dangerous precedent that seriously upsets" labor law.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

McDermott Touts $100M Haul as Raid on DLA Piper Grows

McDermott Will & Emery's chairman said in an internal memo that he expects to hire around 50 lawyers from DLA Piper that will add about $100 million in annual revenue and open a new San Francisco office for the firm.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ogletree Keeps Up Momentum With Revenue, Profit Gains

Ogletree reported an almost 10 percent revenue increase while opening three new offices in the U.S. and Europe last year.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Killjoy for April Foolers: The Legal Joke May Be on Your Company

Let the company beware. Attorney Philippe Weiss, managing director of Seyfarth Shaw at Work, told Corporate Counsel that he has seen office pranks lead to complaints, and sometimes even lawsuits.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Judge Rules Against NCAA in Players' Antitrust Class Action, Sets December Trial

A group of student-athletes challenged the NCAA's limits on student-athlete scholarships as anti-competitive.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Investigating the Claims Adjuster's Investigation in Workers' Comp Matters

Once an insurance carrier is notified of a work injury, it is required by law to promptly investigate the injury and determine whether the claim is compensable within 21 days under Section 406.1 of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Insider Perspective on Balancing Cyber Safeguards, Worker Privacy

“The programs you choose need to be socialized so that the employees feel their privacy will be protected and they have the opportunity to see and understand the application of the program,” said Erika Brown Lee, assistant general counsel for privacy and data protection at MasterCard.
5 minute read

International Edition

'It contains things I have never seen in 30 years' – employment partners question Allen & Overy's Weinstein NDA

Lawyers express surprise over 'extraordinary' provisions in NDA after online publication
4 minute read

International Edition

'It contains things I have never seen in 30 years' – employment partners question Allen & Overy's Weinstein NDA

Lawyers express surprise over 'extraordinary' provisions in NDA after online publication
4 minute read

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