By now, the winter holidays are a dim memory, but there are other events that companies may celebrate. Consequently, it is always helpful to review ways to minimize the risks of serving alcohol at company events.
January 26, 2011Jonathan A. Segal
While many employers have written employment contracts with restrictive covenants designed to hinder employees from departing for a competitor, the state and federal courts considering New York law have not uniformly enforced such provisions.
January 26, 2011Richard C. SchoensteinNot only is social networking taking over how we live, work, communicate and "socialize," it is changing how lawyers litigate and practice law.
January 26, 2011Gary S. Kessler And Tony BarbieriWhile dealing with intermittent leave is one of the most difficult issues that HR staff faces, there are certainly some opportunities for employers to control employee abuse.
January 26, 2011Ralph Morris And Ashley EddyThe commercial real estate broker's lien act is finally a reality in Michigan.
January 26, 2011Steven D. SallenThe Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) recently released a new standard for measuring an office building's rentable area. They are explained herein.
January 26, 2011Richard ShapiroA new layer of federal oversight should help protect consumers and ethical e-commerce companies against misleading and name-tarnishing activities of outlaw e-tailers who have ripped off thousands of U.S. consumers. On Dec. 29, President Obama signed the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act, introduced in the Senate early last year by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
January 26, 2011Michael Lear-OlimpiSea Launch's international ownership and unique capital structure and business model (utilizing a series of treaties between the United States, Russia and the Ukraine) engendered a unique reorganization process, described herein.
January 26, 2011Law.com StaffThe Second Circuit summarily affirmed a bankruptcy court's designation of a secured lender's vote on a reorganization plan in a two-page order, effectively enabling the debtor to cram down the lender's claim.
January 26, 2011Michael L. Cook And Joseph E. BainIn Tiffany v. eBay, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court's ruling in favor of eBay on the key issue of contributory trademark infringement, as well as direct infringement and dilution, but remanded on the issue of false advertising. The upshot of the holding is that despite a general knowledge that a significant percentage of Tiffany goods sold on eBay were counterfeit, eBay did not have a duty to prevent any such sales unless and until a specific instance of fraud was brought to its attention.
December 28, 2010Janet Satterthwaite
