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September 20, 2010 |

Movers

Scott Faust joins Proskauer Rose's labor and employment law department as partner. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
3 minute read
June 11, 2007 |

Disability Challenges

Navigating California's disability law has become a treacherous undertaking due to recent changes in the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act.
8 minute read
October 15, 2008 |

Sick leave becomes legal migraine

A recent lawsuit against retail chain Dillard's Inc. is highlighting what some claim is a growing problem in the workplace: employers asking too much information about workers' illnesses when asked for sick leave.In the Dillard's case, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that one California store required employees to reveal the specific nature of their illness in order to deem sick leave as an excused absence.
4 minute read
February 02, 2004 |

On the Move

A weekly report of lawyer moves and law firm changes. Keep abreast of where movers and shakers are going and what they're doing.
4 minute read
March 01, 2013 |

Faded jeans magnate loses bid to escape involuntary bankruptcy

Guess? Inc. co-founder Georges Marciano failed to persuade a federal appeals court that, because their nearly $100 million in court judgments against him were still under appeal at the time, his former employees had no right to force him into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
4 minute read
November 16, 2004 |

Mutiny Against the Bounty

As part of the recent state budget compromise, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in August signed into law SB 1809, a Labor Code measure also known as the "Private Attorney General's Act of 2004." The new statute addresses perceived inequities and abuses resulting from the so-called "bounty hunter law" of 2003, which encouraged employees to file lawsuits for minor and technical violations of the Labor Code by providing civil penalties for such violations as well as reasonable attorneys fees.
7 minute read
June 07, 2005 |

Small Town Trial Blues

It's what defense attorneys call being "hometowned" -- losing clout in a small town courtroom to local attorneys who the judge knows on a first-name basis. In addition to the obvious -- everyone in a small town knows everyone else -- some say small town jurors are more likely to want to stick it to big corporations, particularly when the victim is local. Says one defense attorney, "small towns have proven to be fertile ground for plaintiffs lawyers and they are giving huge punitive damage awards."
8 minute read
April 19, 2004 |

Movers

Clifford Chance: The firm's new U.S. partnership class consists of Frank C. Cimino (litigation and dispute resolution) and Jay Gavigan and Kate McCarthy (banking and financial restructuring) � and other notable personnel shifts.
4 minute read
February 23, 2004 |

VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

Summaries of verdicts and settlements as reported in The National Law Journal.
7 minute read

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