By Charles Toutant | April 24, 2024
"I'm a defense lawyer primarily, but at the end of the day, noncompete agreements were not meant to be a tool to prevent your midlevel workers from going from Company A to Company B," employment attorney Michael Elkins said.
By Amy Guthrie | April 24, 2024
Blank Rome is set to defend the banana grower against allegations that its payments to a right-wing militia aided and abetted murders in Colombia.
By Lean Adviser | April 22, 2024
In this Lean Adviser lesson, 29 years on from the trial and following the April 2024 passing of O.J. Simpson, we revisit defense attorney Johnnie Cochrane's now infamous quote, and we ask the question: Was this ploy madness or masterful?
By Maria Dinzeo | April 18, 2024
AI researcher Viviane Ghaderi says Amazon pressured her to quit after she disclosed her pregnancy and fired her while she had discrimination and retaliation claims pending with the company.
By Maria Dinzeo | April 16, 2024
"If I wanted to stay in-house, I would have stayed at Mary Kay. What I wanted was a different challenge," retired Mary Kay legal chief Julia Simon told Law.com on her return to private practice in April. "The idea of bringing my broad knowledge and skills back to private practice and to a top tier trial firm was compelling."
Corporate Counsel | Expert Opinion
By Richard Salgado and Ashley Hoff | April 8, 2024
Whether a particular law provides for a private cause of action can have huge consequences for potential corporate defendants. Such a right opens the floodgates to plaintiffs, often represented on a contingency fee basis, asserting claims that may be meritless. The crushing wave of privacy class actions in recent years—made possible by the private causes of action in the underlying state privacy laws—shows what can happen.
By Cedra Mayfield | Patrick Smith | Elana Ashanti Jefferson | April 5, 2024
In this week's Legal Speak episode, James Whittle with the American Property Casualty Insurance Association dives into the impact of what the organization has dubbed "legal system abuse" as social inflation—the belief that large corporations are "bad actors with deep pockets"—helps fuel "nuclear" verdicts.
By Maydeen Merino | April 5, 2024
"[T]he Commission will continue vigorously defending the Final Rules' validity in court and looks forward to expeditious resolution of the litigation," the SEC said.
National Law Journal | Analysis
By Abigail Adcox | April 5, 2024
Law firms may face business risks if a single client's bills make up more than 5% of a firm's total revenue, some consultants suggest, while others say the threshold would have to be much higher.
By Maria Dinzeo | April 4, 2024
Colleen Batcheler is exiting for an as-yet-unidentified role at another company. After joining the company in 2022, she reached a $168 million settlement with customers the rental-car giant had falsely accused of stealing cars.
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