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Policing Workplace e-Mail Use
Business Crimes Bulletin
Under what circumstances do employees who use a workplace computer to communicate with their attorneys waive the attorney-client privilege that would normally attach to such a communication? A recent ruling from New Jersey addressed this question.

Training for Lawyer Management
Law Firm Partnership & Benefits Report
What specifically managing partners and members of management committees should do to coalesce their partners, associates and staff into a well-managed and informed organization, with all of the professional and administrative personnel working together to achieve the firm's immediate and long-term objectives.

Conducting an Effective and Preventative Compensation Review
Accounting and Financial Planning for Law Firms
With the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the EEOC’s and OFCCP’s increased focus on compensation discrimination, and the government’s increased budget for these agencies, compensation decisions are destined to come under increased scrutiny from employees, their attorneys and the government.

Getting Users to Adopt New Productivity Tools
LJN's Legal Tech Newsletter
Getting people to adopt productivity-enhancing technology tools requires a thoughtful, meticulous approach. It’s not just a matter of installing a tool on everyone’s desktop and then hoping for the best.

Top Stories
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Reducing Exposure to Attorneys’ Fees
Although a prevailing plaintiff is entitled to his/her costs and attorneys’ fees, a successful defendant is entitled only to its costs (e.g., filing fees, court reporter fees, etc.) and not an award of attorneys’ fees.

New Employee Rights Poster for Federal Contractors
Pursuant to Executive Order 13496, and its implementing regulations 29 CFR, Part 471, federal contractors and subcontractors must notify employees about their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) as of June 21, 2010. Here are the details.

Tenth Circuit Rules on Temporary Workers
In a case of first impression, the Tenth Circuit recently considered whether positions filled by temporary contract workers are "vacant" for purposes of reassignment as a reasonable accommodation under the ADA.

What Should Human Resources Be Doing to Prepare for Health Care Reform?
In the coming months, you should guide HR in preparing for required changes needed to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Here are some things you should already be putting (or have) in place.

CA Supreme Court Clarifies Who Cannot Be Sued by Workers
For 97 years, neither California legislators nor the courts ever clarified who qualified as an employer under the state Industrial Welfare Commission’s (IWC) wage orders. That changed on May 20 when the California Supreme Court decided, in part, who does not qualify.

Second Circuit Finds Drug Reps Not Exempt from Overtime Law
Current and former sales representatives for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. are not exempt from qualifying for overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Second Circuit ruled July 6.

Movers & Shakers
Who's doing what; who's going where.

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