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By Erin Mulvaney | July 10, 2017
Littler Mendelson's William Emanuel, one of President Donald Trump's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, identified 49 former clients in a financial disclosure and said he would recuse himself, for up to a year, if any of the companies appear before the agency. Emanuel and fellow NLRB nominee Marvin Kaplan are set for confirmation hearings Thursday.
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By Erin Mulvaney | July 10, 2017
Uber, one of the Los Angeles shareholder's clients, has clashed with the labor board.Littler Mendelson's William Emanuel, one of President…
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By Katelyn Polantz and Mike Scarcella | July 10, 2017
Christopher Wray, the King & Spalding white-collar partner who was nominated to replace fired FBI director James Comey, reported earning $9.2 million in his partnership share from 2016 and so far this year, according to financial documents made available Monday. Wray, a King & Spalding partner for nearly 12 years in the firm's Washington and Atlanta offices, also revealed numerous big-name clients in the required disclosure, released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. Wray is set to appear Wednesday for his confirmation hearing.
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By C. Ryan Barber | July 7, 2017
CEOs are getting antsy about complying with an SEC rule that would expose compensation divides at companies. The SEC recently took on a "fake news" scheme. Federal trade regulators this week adopted an indemnity policy to protect its employees who get sued. And the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's taking heat from an unlikely source: the National Credit Union Administration. This is a roundup of regulatory and compliance news from ALM and around the web.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 7, 2017
Plaintiff's whistleblower and §1983 suit against the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and a state representative in her official capacity was barred by Eleventh Amendment immunity but his action against representative in her personal capacity for firing him after he reported the alleged misuse of state funds to promote representative's church was not barred. Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part.
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By C. Ryan Barber | July 6, 2017
The federal government's chief ethics watchdog resigned Thursday after clashing for months with President Donald Trump over his refusal to divest business interests and confronting the administration's initial resistance to publicly disclose waivers that allowed staff to interact with their former private employers.
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By Cogan Schneier | July 5, 2017
A federal judge may decide by Friday whether to block President Donald Trump's newly created voting commission from asking states to hand over voters' personal data.
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By Cheryl Miller | July 3, 2017
Dentons partner Jeffrey Bleich is criss-crossing California these days, introducing himself to voters who will decide next year whether he should be the state's next lieutenant governor. The Recorder recently caught up with the Democratic candidate before he took his campaign to Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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By John Council | July 3, 2017
The all-Republican Texas high court said it was bound to follow U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence allowing restrictions on corporate campaign contributions.
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By Erin Mulvaney and Mike Scarcella | June 29, 2017
Janet Dhillon, a veteran corporate in-house lawyer who led the legal departments at US Airways and JCPenney and now oversees Burlington Stores Inc.'s team, was picked Wednesday for a seat on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In a recent talk, Dhillon, who got her start at Skadden Arps, gave advice to law firms that want to do business with her company. Here are the highlights.
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