Labor/Employment
It’s a growing litigation niche that could generate billions in liabilities, following a pattern that became familiar in asbestos litigation. These cases allege company liability “even though the plaintiff…
The same lawyer who won a $52 million settlement earlier this year for a Facebook employee is representing a woman who did similar content moderation…
In the latest turn in a protracted legal battle, a federal judge dismissed a defamation claim by a former Tesla employee, while allowing the company’s trade secrets case…
It’s inherently dangerous work, but when it also includes confronting things like “noose” graffiti, the n-word scrawled playfully backwards, racist insults and clueless or actively…
A recent joint report from Lloyd’s of London and KPMG finds that as much of 85 percent of total business value in many industries now…
As bring-your-own device policies proliferate and digital storage becomes cheaper and more prevalent, it gets easier to pilfer trade secrets. Whether intentional or unintentional, it…
An increasing number of families of employees who have died of Covid-19 are filing lawsuits against employers. The key question in many of these suits…
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by Cargill and a U.S. subsidiary of Swiss-based Nestle SA, over whether U.S. companies can be…
There have been more than 300 Covid-related lawsuits filed in U.S. courts since the beginning of the year, according to a tracking project by law…
A fresh crop of entry-level workers is about to join the workforce. “Generation Z” is currently the term most accepted to define those born in…