By Charles Toutant | January 27, 2021
The upshot of the published ruling, on an issue of first impression, is that a lawyer with an employment contract has the same rights as any other employee with an employment contract, said plaintiffs counsel Timothy Donohue.
By Alaina Lancaster | September 21, 2020
"Now, Coca-Cola has seized on global tragedy, the COVID-19 pandemic, as a pretext to claim a 'breach' and 'terminate' the sponsorship agreement early to save money," wrote Cozen O'Connor's Brett Taylor in Los Angeles and Paul Leary in Philadelphia.
Corporate Counsel | Commentary
By Jonathan W. Hugg | July 24, 2020
On June 3, in In Re: Hitz Restaurant Group, a federal bankruptcy court issued one of the first judicial decisions squarely interpreting a force majeure clause in the context of COVID-19. The result suggests that courts will recognize the pandemic as a force majeure event, but also that courts will limit the pandemic-related relief they grant on force majeure grounds.
By ALM Staff | June 23, 2020
New ebook from ALM's Law Journal Press addresses clients' questions about the enforceability of contracts in the wake of COVID-19.
By Phillip Bantz | May 28, 2020
Vered Yakovee, who worked for the NBA team for about four years, alleges that she was fired for requesting maternity leave after she adopted a baby. She argued, unsuccessfully, that she was rushed into signing an arbitration agreement when she was hired.
By Phillip Bantz | May 13, 2020
"And we're here to offer some provocative, possibly offensive, and certainly self-serving thoughts," said Mark Harris and Alec Guettel, co-founders of Axiom and Knowable.
By Diana Fassbender, Marc Shapiro, Paige Pavone and Alex Lilly | April 20, 2020
From a legal perspective, many defenses may be available but will be fact-specific, based upon the language of the respective contracts and service agreements.
By Phillip Bantz | April 13, 2020
Legal departments and in-house lawyers are in a unique position amid the coronavirus pandemic. They could take "strong, uncompromising positions" on contract enforcement, but that might be a losing strategy in the end.
By Mike Scarcella | February 13, 2020
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge on Thursday issued a sealed preliminary injunction, an early win for Amazon and its lawyers at Morrison & Foerster and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
By Michael S. Poster | February 10, 2020
Attorneys negotiating and drafting morals clauses must do so with eyes wide open.
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