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Spoliation Sanctions Can Dwarf What The Case Is Worth

A ruling from the Second Circuit Court earlier this year is a cautionary tale about the...
CA’s New Privacy Law, And Why Insurers Are Paying Close Attention

In many respects, California’s sweeping new privacy law is similar to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation....
Important Considerations In Pay Equity Audits

A proactive strategy to avoid being caught flat-footed when defending against a claim of unequal pay......
Ruling Limits Whistleblowers To Nuclear Option

A Supreme Court decision earlier this year has overturned understanding of the test for employees to...

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TODAY’S GENERAL COUNSEL and TODAY’S GENERAL COUNSEL INSTITUTE Announces Industry Executive Tracey Goldvarg to Join as Associate Publisher March 1, 2018, CHICAGO, Today’s...
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Sidley Austin Announces 19 Elected Partners
Effective January 1, 2018, Sidley Austin LLP will add 19 new partners to its partnership. “We are delighted to welcome this outstanding group of lawyers...
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U.S. Companies and London’s AIM Exchange
The London Stock Exchange’s AIM market is the world’s leading market for high-growth companies, popular with international companies that wish to source their equity...
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Gender-Biased General Counsel Bonuses Need Fixing
Although female general counsel have a base salary that is, on average, 6.3 percent lower than their male counterparts, it is in their bonuses...
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Spoliation Sanctions Can Dwarf What The Case Is Worth
A ruling from the Second Circuit Court earlier this year is a cautionary tale about the importance of implementing...
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Important Considerations In Pay Equity Audits
A proactive strategy to avoid being caught flat-footed when defending against a claim of unequal pay...
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Ruling Limits Whistleblowers To Nuclear Option
A Supreme Court decision earlier this year has overturned understanding of the test for employees to gain whistleblower status....
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The Wheel Of Justice Grinds Slower If You’re Rich
After a two month delay starting his four year sentence for bribery, billionaire Ng Lap Seng asked Judge Vernon...
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Ruling Limits Whistleblowers to Nuclear Option
In February, the United States Supreme Court threw out an anti-retaliation suit brought by a former employee who was...
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Transgender Employees and Employment Discrimination
Title VII prevents employers from discriminating against employees based on “sex” — a term with no statutory definition and...
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17 Percent Of EEOC Sexual Harassment Complainants Are Male
In a recent CNN poll, ten percent of men reported they had been victims of sexual harassment at work....
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Fallout From Trump’s Affairs: The End Of The Nondisclosure Agreement?
Two women – adult film actress/director Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, and Playboy model Karen McDougal – say they...
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Cult Leader Games Patent Office
A cult leader with deep enough pockets to doggedly pursue patents for mundane variations on established technology has been...
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Integrating Trade Secrets into a Comprehensive IP Strategy
Companies that conduct R&D often have a patentability procedure. That process is also well suited to trade secret protection....
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China Stole This U.S. Company’s IP The Old-Fashioned Way
The Chinese wind turbine company Sinovel managed to come up with some software that had been developed by a...
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Some PTAB Procedural Decisions Can Be Appealed
In January 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its en banc decision in...
- Posted 4 months ago
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Spoliation Sanctions Can Dwarf What The Case Is Worth
A ruling from the Second Circuit Court earlier this year is a cautionary tale about the importance of implementing...
- Posted 3 days ago
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CA’s New Privacy Law, And Why Insurers Are Paying Close Attention
In many respects, California’s sweeping new privacy law is similar to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. It puts businesses...
- Posted 3 days ago
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Important Considerations In Pay Equity Audits
A proactive strategy to avoid being caught flat-footed when defending against a claim of unequal pay...
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Trump Threatens Ghostwriter Of His Bestselling Memoir
“The Art of the Deal,” the best-selling 1987 business book and memoir, remade Trump’s image by putting “lipstick on...
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Gorsuch Said Women “Manipulate” Maternity Benefits
Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, told students in a course at the University...
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Ten Essential Best Practices in Predictive Coding
This paper outlines emerging best practices in the application of predictive coding to e-discovery. Having moved past its early...
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