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National Law Journal

Trump Administration Unlawfully Blocked Pay Data Rule, New Suit Alleges

“If it wasn't clear before, it's crystal clear now: women—and the families relying on women's paychecks—are at the bottom of the Trump administration's agenda,” said Emily Martin, general counsel to the National Women's Law Center. “By stopping the equal pay data collection, this administration has shown that its loyalties lie with corporate employers who want to hide pay discrimination under the rug. We will not allow this to go unchallenged.”
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Interstate Issues in Enforcement of Noncompete Provisions

Employers do not want employees they have trained and provided with proprietary business information to leave and go to work for competitors. Buyers who purchase businesses do not want the sellers to start new, competing businesses.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

HR Exec's Tweet to Trump Not Grounds to Deny UC Benefits, Court Rules

A former HR executive's tweet to then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 U.S. presidential race was enough to get her fired from her job, but, according to a Pennsylvania appeals court, not enough to block her from receiving unemployment compensation benefits.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

High Court Declines to Rethink Rulings in Waffle House Appeals

The Supreme Court of Georgia rejects motions for reconsideration, sticking with its decisions to reinstate criminal charges against two metro Atlanta lawyers and their client and letting the lawyers' disqualification stand in the Waffle House sex tape saga.
3 minute read

International Edition

What are the biggest risks facing general counsel doing business in central and eastern Europe?

Senior in-house lawyers discuss key CEE business risks and the most problematic countries in the region
2 minute read

International Edition

What are the biggest risks facing general counsel doing business in central and eastern Europe?

Senior in-house lawyers discuss key CEE business risks and the most problematic countries in the region
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Religion or Extremism? A Global Workplace Issue: Part I

The United Kingdom and other countries have experienced recent acts of terrorism in in the name of religion, with the United States seeing an increase in protests by extremist groups.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Orrick's Hermle Hits Back at Nasty Depiction in Ellen Pao's New Book

That Ellen Pao has nothing nice to say in her new book “Reset” about Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe litigator Lynne Hermle is not surprising. Turns out, Hermle doesn't have a lot of nice things to say about Pao either.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Wal-Mart's Top LGBT Ranking Came With an Asterisk—And What That Means

“There is a lot of confusion on what the law requires that has been going on for a long time,” said Sam Schwartz-Fenwick, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago. “More uncertainty is negatively perceived by many employers, who prefer to work in black and white, not shades of gray.”
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Impact of Compromise and Release Agreements in Wake of 'Zuber'

On Sept. 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit handed down a decision that clarified the impact that a settlement in a Workers' Compensation case (referred to as a “Compromise and Release Agreement”) has on an Employee's rights to bring other claims against an Employer, particularly when those claims arise out of the same work event.
7 minute read

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