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Texas Lawyer
10-06-2008
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on whether a qualified domestic relations order under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act trumps a woman's voluntary waiver of her ex-husband's pension benefits, an issue that has divided federal appeals courts. A law professor calls the case a "cautionary tale" for lawyers when advising their clients about what actions to take after a divorce.
New Jersey Law Journal
10-06-2008
Gov. Jon Corzine on Oct. 1 signed into law five bills to fix New Jersey's troubled workers' compensation system, principally by reducing what can be long delays in making injured workers whole. The bills give workers? comp judges more authority to enforce their orders, penalize employers that fail to provide workers? comp insurance coverage for their workers and ensure that employees injured on the job are given prompt and adequate treatment and pay benefits.
The American Lawyer
10-06-2008
A former Dechert associate has sued the firm, claiming it exaggerated his corporate work opportunities and later fired him in part because he is an Orthodox Jew. Marc Lubin's suit says Dechert, especially partner Malcolm Dorris, told him in interviews that he would participate in endless transactional work with major clients, but he ended up doing "glorified paralegal work." He also claims that, when he was fired, Dorris said Lubin "was different," which he understood "to refer to his religious status."
The National Law Journal
10-03-2008
If sleep disorders and sex problems can be used as criteria for filing disability claims, as courts have held, "being male" could also be a legally recognized disability. So claims Louis Solomon, a partner and co-head of the Global Litigation Department at Proskauer Rose, who believes "maleness" is on its way to becoming a new category for disability claims.
Employment Law Strategist
10-01-2008
The number of jurisdictions that have enacted so-called ?lactation? laws continues to grow. Determining how to accommodate employees who breastfeed their children is an issue that many employers will need to address. Creating and implementing polices to allow women to express breast milk at work will benefit female employees who choose to nurse their children and will help ensure compliance with breastfeeding laws.
The National Law Journal
09-29-2008
The gender pay gap has always been a sore subject bubbling near the surface of law firms across the nation. Now it has boiled over the top. A recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that women lawyers still earn far less than their male counterparts. The statistic didn't surprise anyone, but that didn't stop it from triggering a fresh round of debate on scores of blogs and within women's legal circles.
The National Law Journal
09-29-2008
Pregnancy discrimination is creating yet more troubles for employers, which are landing in hot water for keeping pregnant employees out of hazardous areas. Most recently, employers in Texas and California settled pregnancy discrimination lawsuits that claimed they wrongfully prohibited pregnant employees from working in certain areas.
C.A. 4th
05-13-2008
Trial court's purported vacation and reentry of judgment of which appellant had no notice did not extend his time to appeal (per curiam)
C.A. 2nd
05-13-2008
Seaman injured while camping out in vessel owner's parking lot was not entitled to "maintenance and cure" (Woods, J.)
