Former financial advisors who sold investments in what turned out to be a $7 billion Ponzi scheme run by R. Allen Stanford have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the Fifth Circuit and order to arbitration the Ponzi scheme receiver’s attempt ...read more
A private equity firm focused on student housing investments has taken its trade secrets quarrel with a former in-house lawyer to state court, reviving its fiduciary duty and unfair competition claims just days after a California judge found that the ...read more
Cozen O'Connor said Tuesday that it had added a former National Labor Relations Board associate general counsel with more than four decades of experience with the agency to the firm's labor and employment group in Washington, D.C. ...read more
Two ex-Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys representing a sales manager in an employment dispute with Hibu Inc. blasted Hibu’s attempt to kick them off the case as “threadbare” and “frivolous," telling a Kansas federal judge ...read more
Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP expanded its Florida practice with the hires of two former Fowler White Burnett PA attorneys, who together defended against labor law violation claims and litigated contract disputes for insurers at their previous firm ...read more
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. has agreed to a $9.2 million settlement to resolve a whistleblower False Claims Act suit alleging that it overcharged for labor costs related to building ships for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department ...read more
A split National Labor Relations Board on Monday found that Macy’s Inc.’s rules prohibiting the disclosure of information about customers obtained from the department store company’s confidential records doesn’t violate the National ...read more
The Trump administration’s recent decision to yank a proposal to screen all truck, train and bus operators for sleep apnea fulfills the president’s promise to roll back business-hampering regulations, experts say, unraveling an Obama-era plan ...read more
A whistleblower who accused KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co. of overcharging the government for water purification services urged the full Fourth Circuit to reconsider a decision that the False Claims Act’s first-to-file bar blocked his case, saying ...read more
Par Pharmaceuticals Inc. filed suit Monday in New Jersey federal court accusing a competitor founded by two former employees of poaching its personnel in an effort to steal trade secrets and rip off a popular cardiopulmonary drug. ...read more
A North Carolina federal judge on Monday kept alive a suit by the founder of an organization that promotes African-American race car drivers and teams accusing NASCAR of discriminating against him and his organization by refusing to contract with him ...read more
B&H Foto & Electronics Corp. agreed to pay $3.2 million in back wages and other relief to resolve allegations the company discriminated against Hispanic, Black and Asian workers and job seekers at the company’s Brooklyn Navy Yard warehouse, according ...read more
Given the overwhelming complexity of today’s data environments, investigators must take advantage of a variety of technology tools to apply both tried-and-true and new analytical techniques to internal investigations. Investigators must also develop the ...read more
The Alliance for American Manufacturing’s leader on Tuesday became the most recent member of President Donald Trump’s American Manufacturing Council to step down based on Trump’s lackluster response to the fatal white supremacist rally ...read more
It is my firm view that special master appointments are very beneficial in resolving disputes quickly, streamlining discovery, handling delicate settlement negotiations, and — somewhat surprisingly — reducing cost and delay, says retired U.S. District ...read more
In its recent decision in Cassandra Woods v. START Treatment & Recovery Centers, the Second Circuit applied a lower causation standard to determine whether employers have retaliated against employees for exercising their rights under the Family and ...read more
Four Teamsters were acquitted Tuesday of trying to strong-arm a “Top Chef” television production into hiring union labor at a picket that turned violent. ...read more
Proportionality is often a question of whether discovery production has reached a point of diminishing returns, and about the marginal utility of additional discovery once the core discovery in the case has been completed. In other words, proportionality ...read more
As more law firms become the targets of major cyberattacks, more firms may consider appointing a chief privacy officer. In this series, CPOs at four firms discuss various aspects of this new role. ...read more
Social Finance Inc. was hit with a wage-and-hour putative class action in California court Monday, just days after a former worker sued the financial startup, alleging it fired him for reporting the harassment of a female coworker and for reporting managers ...read more
A Colorado federal jury sided with Taylor Swift in her countersuit against a radio DJ who’d accused her of getting him fired, finding that when the DJ groped her during a photo op in 2013, it amounted to assault and battery, according to reports ...read more
A black attorney has lost her bid to revive claims that a former Texas state judge and a courtroom bailiff mistreated her because of her race and because she campaigned against the judge, with the Fifth Circuit holding they were immune from suit. ...read more
A dispute over whether a New York judge should rethink a ruling that kept alive former top-ranked professional golfer Vijay Singh’s four-year-old suit against the PGA Tour over his suspension for using deer antler spray continued Friday as the tour ...read more
LinkedIn Corp. will have to let a job-search startup keep scraping information off the social media site’s public profiles, a California federal judge ruled Monday after finding the startup had raised “serious questions” about LinkedIn’s attempt to block ...read more
College football and basketball players challenging the NCAA's rules against players' being compensated beyond school attendance costs laid out their case Friday to a California federal judge, ripping the NCAA’s dedication to “amateurism” ...read more