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May 24, 2017 |

Overview: Meet the GCs Who May Finally Move the Needle on Diversity

General counsel are done with dangling carrots when it comes to improving outside counsel's diversity efforts. They've moved to the stick, with some GCs withholding fees from firms that don't meet their diversity requirements. Programs like this, coming from some of the country's largest companies, are not always met with positivity.
61 minute read
May 22, 2017 |

Protected Speech? DOJ Compliance Expert Tweets Anti-Trump Messages

The contracted compliance counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, Hui Chen, has been posting anti-Trump messages on her Twitter account. Labor and employment attorney says the law is continuing to evolve about this sort of activity.
8 minute read
May 22, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

Protected Speech? DOJ Compliance Expert Tweets Anti-Trump Messages

The contracted compliance counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, Hui Chen, has been posting anti-Trump messages on her Twitter account. Labor and employment attorney says the law is continuing to evolve about this sort of activity.
8 minute read
May 19, 2017 |

Wal-Mart Settlement in First LGBT Workers' Class Action Reflects Larger Shift

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s multimillion-dollar agreement this week to compensate employees who were refused benefits for same-sex partners marks one of the first class action settlements brought on behalf of LGBT workers, and it comes at a time when the legal and corporate landscapes are moving toward embracing equal protections.
14 minute read
May 15, 2017 |

Use of Noncompete Clauses Grows Even as More States Move to Limit Them

Companies and law firms increasingly are inserting noncompete clauses into employment contracts but more of those contracts are winding up in litigation and more states in the United States are passing laws to restrict their use.
16 minute read
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May 15, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

Use of Noncompete Clauses Grows Even as More States Move to Limit Them

Companies and law firms increasingly are inserting noncompete clauses into employment contracts but more of those contracts are winding up in litigation and more states in the United States are passing laws to restrict their use.
16 minute read
May 05, 2017 |

Court Confronts Scope of EEOC's Power to Dig Into Company Files

The accounting firm BDO USA could be forced to disclose certain internal documents to U.S. regulators who are investigating claims the company discriminated and retaliated against female employees, including the chief human resources officer. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday overturned a lower court's decision that blocked enforcement of EEOC subpoena.
18 minute read
April 24, 2017 |

Rule Would Require Certification That Parties Were Informed of ADR

Attorneys in New York's Commercial Division would have to assure the court early on that they had talked with their clients about the availability of alternate dispute resolution, under a proposed regulation by state court administrators.
7 minute read
March 23, 2017 |

Suit Against Cosmetics Website Held Futile Without Showing of Harm

A suit asserting violations of New Jersey's Truth in Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act by cosmetics website LushUSA.com has been dismissed because the plaintiff did not suffer any actual harm, according to the court opinion tossing the case.
9 minute read
March 20, 2017 |

Trump's Deregulatory Push Hits a Snag at Product Safety Commission

In times of presidential transition, it is common across the federal bureaucracy for agency heads to resign and allow the incoming administration to appoint new leadership. At the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Elliot Kaye has stayed put. The dynamic has not simply staved off Trump's pro-business, deregulatory push. The commission's three Democrats appear poised to seize on the waning days of their majority and move forward on safety regulations—and their call for higher penalties against companies.
21 minute read

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