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February 28, 2007 |

Are Fast Food Lawsuits Likely to Be the Next 'Big Tobacco'?

Will fast food litigation be the next "Big Tobacco"? According to Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Lianne S. Pinchuk, attempts to model fast food litigation after tobacco suits have generally failed and will likely continue to fail. There has been little success in "Big Food" litigation so far, and state "cheeseburger bills" provide fast food companies with protections that weren't afforded to tobacco companies. But, Pinchuk warns, a suit hitting the discovery stage could change the "Big Food" litigation landscape.
7 minute read
June 06, 2008 |

Reconstructing Constructive Discharge in Second Circuit

John A. Beranbaum, a member of Beranbaum Menken Ben-Asher & Bierman, writes that an employee experiencing discrimination or sexual harassment may not ordinarily quit and then claim economic damages for the resulting lost wages. Only when the work conditions are so "intolerable" that a reasonable person would feel compelled to quit will the resignation be treated as a "constructive discharge," entitling the plaintiff to the same damages as if he or she were actually discharged.
16 minute read
May 02, 2005 |

Out, Out Damned Spots

As the entrenched mass media fight to keep us bound and enthralled with edgy themes and dazzling production, the same technology allows us to avoid commercials without devaluing content. How are the media reacting?
8 minute read
July 18, 2007 |

GC leads legal department through merger with Cisco

MICHAEL C. VEYSEY, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Scientific Atlanta, greeted visitors to his office on a rainy afternoon last week by showing them a stick-a flexible one with rolling cylinders meant not to inflict pain but to soothe it. The lean 63-year-old runner finds the stick handy to "work out the kinks" during long meetings.
7 minute read
November 05, 1999 |

Grabbing Up Cyber Claims

The fact that cybersquatters exist - and thrive - illustrates a fundamental flaw in our system of domain name allocation. Domain names are a new species of property. Unfortunately, they're not treated as such.
9 minute read
February 21, 2007 |

Fast food lawsuits

There has been a proliferation of articles predicting that fast food litigation will be the next big tobacco litigation. But tobacco companies and fast food restaurants are not treated the same way by the courts, and such disparate treatment is likely to continue.
7 minute read
July 23, 2007 |

GC Leads Legal Department Through Merger With Cisco

Scientific Atlanta GC Michael C. Veysey, a veteran of wars -- corporate, legal and military -- survived a takeover last year by San Jose, Calif.-based high-tech giant Cisco Systems Inc. with his job and his legal department intact. Joining forces with Cisco, he said, has offered Scientific Atlanta lawyers opportunities down the road that they would never have had before, like responding to in-house job postings in Dubai, Japan and China.
8 minute read
March 10, 2003 |

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January 19, 2006 |

Whistleblowers

Corporate whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley securities law stops at the U.S. border, said the first U.S. appellate court to address the issue. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has held that the law does not extend to foreign workers employed by the overseas subsidiaries of U.S. companies.
4 minute read

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