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In and Out: The Challenge of Associate Retention
Firms sink a lot of time and money into recruiting candidates with just the right mix of grades, gumption and personality. But what happens then? A lot of them leave. According to a recent study, about eight percent of associates left during their first year of employment; cumulative losses reach 38 percent by the third year, and nearly 60 percent by the fifth year.Black Employees Take Coke to Court
A U.S. District Court judge ordered Coca Cola Co. to deliver six years' worth of computerized data about thousands of workers to answer a disrcimination suit brought by more than 1,500 black employees. The company argues that the plaintiffs' claims are too individualized to be resolved in a class action.In-House Counsel Can Cut Budgets While Firms Increase Profits
"What can I do to win your business?" is a question Jason Mark Anderman frequently hears as an in-house attorney at a Fortune 500 company. He also thought it was the wrong question. To him, it exemplified two problems: 1. He did not know enough about the internal pressures a company faced in selecting outside counsel, and 2. he did not have anything uniquely competitive, compared to other firms, to focus on.
Federal Law Preempts State Law Claims Against Foreign Airlines, Second Circuit Rules
Publication Date: 2012-10-12 Practice Area: Industry: Court: Judge: Attorneys: For plaintiff: For defendant: Case number:
An appellate court ruled on Thursday that the Federal Aviation Act preempts the state regulation of all airlines. The decision came in a long-running litigation in which major carriers have been accused of conspiring to keep cargo shipping rates artificially high.
In Escalating Copyright Suit, EA Hits Zynga With Anti-SLAPP Motion
Publication Date: 2012-10-29 Practice Area: Industry: Court: Judge: Attorneys: For plaintiff: For defendant: Case number:
Electronic Arts has invoked a California law designed to protect citizens' constitutional rights to lash back at rival Zynga in the gamemakers' ongoing legal tussle in federal court. The dispute between the competitors has become increasingly combative since EA sued Zynga for copyright infringement. The latest fusillade came Friday as EA asked a judge to throw out Zynga's counterclaim and award fees and costs under California's anti-SLAPP law.
Yes, Virginia, There Is Jurisdiction
Be careful what you type next time you log on to your favorite Internet chat room or newsgroup. At least, that's the message sent by a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia earlier this summer. Judge T.S. Ellis III held that a court in Virginia possessed personal jurisdiction in a defamation case brought by a Virginia resident against two out-of-state defendants based solely on the location of the server from which the defamatory messages were sent.Grokster: Safe Harbor Shrinking
Lawyers with teenage children have probably heard of Grokster, but now lawyers may be hearing from clients, not about Grokster itself, but about what the U.S. Supreme Court case by the same name could mean for their businesses. Theodore F. Shiells and Dustin M. Mauck describe how the Court's Grokster decision found that the safe-harbor provision established in Sony did not necessarily foreclose liability for actively inducing users' infringement.L.A. Firms' Dirty Little Secret: Hourly Rates
The big firms are getting used to announcing gross revenues that have become, well, gross. They're begrudgingly willing to talk about partner draws that are moving to the million-dollar neighborhood. What the big law firms are still downright shy about are the building blocks of all that filthy lucre: billing rates. Los Angeles insiders don't want to go on the record about charging $500 for partners. Why? "When you start raising rates, you change the way lawyers view each other," says one recruiter.
Accidental Expatriates: Potential Global Mobility Hazard
A significant issue facing global corporations is the potential for liability created by "accidental expatriates" — employees who travel overseas on what are intended to be brief business trips or short assignments, write Erika Collins and John Hamlin. They are usually not included in their organization's global mobility expatriate programs, and whose time overseas is extended long enough or cumulates over time to bring about potential violations of host country immigration, tax and Social Security laws. Recently, the instances of accidental expatriates are on the rise. There are several reasons for the increase in these types of employees.GM Obstructed Justice but Didn't Induce Witness To Lie
General Motors and its lawyers obstructed justice in shielding documents related to fuel-fed fires in its vehicles, but did not suborn perjury, a Fulton judge ruled. The ruling Tuesday stems from allegations the automaker and its lawyers committed various crime and frauds in concealing the existence and contents of a 1973 engineer's report. Brogdon wrote that he found no evidence that GM, its in-house lawyers or outside counsel caused or influenced the engineer to lie at deposition.TRENDING STORIES
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