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October 07, 2009 |

Don't Play Like Letterman, Employment Lawyers Warn

David Letterman's recent revelation that he had sex with subordinates is just a high-profile example, say employment lawyers, of a pervasive and potentially explosive problem: bosses having relationships with lower-level employees. "It's not illegal. It's just dangerous," said Fisher & Phillips partner Andria Ryan. "Most of the public looks at [the Letterman scandal] and says, 'Oh, what a shame for his wife, his family or his job.' My first reaction was, 'This is a sex harassment suit waiting to happen.'"
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January 07, 2005 |

Circuits Split Over 'Safe Harbor' Protection for Companies

Federal appeals courts have split over the degree to which a securities law "safe harbor" provision involving company disclosures provides a shield from shareholder suits. The 2nd Circuit has held that companies can assert the defense at the pleadings stage of a suit -- creating a powerful weapon for defendants in terminating cases before discovery -- but the 7th Circuit has given a boost to class action plaintiffs with a ruling that declined to apply the defense at the pleadings stage.
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December 23, 2005 |

Accolades

Attorneys at more than 30 law firms were honored at the Legal Aid Society's 2005 Pro Bono Awards dinner Dec. 1, hosted this year by Shearman & Sterling.
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October 25, 2005 |

Legality, Morality and Online Hate Groups

To gauge the wealth of bigotry in cyberspace, attorney Christopher Wolf suggests googling the word "Jew." At No. 2 on Google's catalog of referenced sites is "Jew Watch," which provides a numbing list of alleged crimes and conspiracies, including one of the oldest chestnuts of anti-Semitic propaganda, "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion." It falls to Wolf, the new chairman of the International Network Against Cyber-Hate, to fight against a high-tech version of old-fashioned odium.
4 minute read
December 15, 2008 |

William E. Hellerstein Honors Judge Kaye

My appreciation of Judge Kaye's legal acumen and wisdom began with her tenure as a member of the board of directors of the Legal Aid Society. As the attorney-in-charge of the appeals bureau, I attended many board meetings and witnessed the creativity and energy that Judge Kaye brought to the issues at hand.
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February 02, 2007 |

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July 10, 2000 |

Broadband Battle Shifts to Beltway

The battle over regulating cable broadband has shifted to a new arena, the Federal Communications Commission, now that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a Portland, Ore., ordinance regulating the new technology. Meanwhile, parties, intervenors and amici to the suit are interpreting the ruling to bolster their positions.
4 minute read
February 25, 2002 |

Coke Panel Is It

A blue-ribbon antibias committee: Texaco`s got one. So does Mitsubishi. And now Coke is it. These panels sound good. They certainly seem to mollify critics-and litigants-who have attacked these companies` hiring and promotion practices. But employment lawyers are worried: Do these panels mean that companies are in effect ceding control over a core business function to outsiders?
3 minute read
October 22, 1999 |

Audit Committee Headaches: Lawyers Divided on SEC Proposal

Attorneys handling securities and financial reporting matters are buzzing about a Securities and Exchange Commission proposal that would require audit committees to tell shareholders of untrue or misleading statements in a company's annual report. Defense attorneys say the plan is misguided and creates significant liability for board members who serve on audit committees. Plaintiffs' attorneys say the move will ensure audit committees do more than rubber-stamp a company's audited financial statements.
5 minute read
July 20, 2006 |

Cheap Labor

Davis Wright Tremaine employment lawyer Judith Droz Keyes left Morrison Foerster for a smaller outfit, but some national firms are using high deductibles against the insurers to build their employment practices.
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