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“Diversity” has become a watchword in the corporate world. Its meaning has broadened to include categories such as professional background, age, socio-economic class and […]
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act protects consumers from unwanted phone calls, faxes and texts, and limits the use of certain automatic dialing and artificial […]
The author’s company conducted a study to learn how corporate legal departments are operating and gauge their perceptions about the future. They reported conflicting […]
Canada’s competition class-action jurisprudence has been tilting in plaintiffs’ favor in recent years. Canadian courts have been recognizing low thresholds for certification class-action and […]
Insurance implications are routinely overlooked in commercial contracts. Contracts to receive or perform services, to supply or receive goods or raw materials, and contracts […]
Representations and warranties insurance (RWI) is highly customized insurance for risk in M&A transactions. This article provides a brief primer on the structure, coverage, […]
A jury rejected gender discrimination claims lodged by Ellen Pao, a former employee at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, […]
In March 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first pregnancy discrimination decision since 1991. The issue was an employer’s obligation to accommodate […]
Widespread employee use of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media has drawn the attention of both the NLRB and the EEOC, and employers […]
Why are law schools paying minimal attention to e-discovery when e-discovery expenses often approach half or more of the total cost of litigation? According […]