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It is no secret by now that employers, particularly those in such industries as the financial services, retail and health care, continue to be hit with the legal tsunami that is class action lawsuits. Here's how to cope.

The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued guidance covering situations in which a pension plan, by virtue of its holdings of its employer's stock, is a potential claimant in a securities fraud suit.

If a would-be intern or trainee is actually an employee by another name, an employment relationship exists, and the intern or trainee is entitled to all the benefits and protections of federal law. These include the rights to minimum wage, overtime, and a discrimination-free workplace.

How can a law firm choose a fee arrangement that is beneficial for the client and calculated to be profitable for the firm? Once that fee is set, how can the law firm best manage the engagement to ensure sustained profitability? How can it measure profitability in this new environment?

How should a law firm approach compensation decisions in the current economy? The fundamentals still apply: a focus on the quality of the compensation decisions and the interrelationship of those decisions with culture and strategy.

Understanding how providers address the rating categories of the ACC Value Index as part of their everyday services and practices will make it much easier to assess the value received ' and should result in a much more predictable, cost-effective approach for managing the process.

A company's decision on where to draw the line on personal use of workplace computers poses a great challenge to employers, and recent court rulings do not make the decision and its enforcement any easier.

In this article the authors explore some key factors for best practices in transaction management from the perspective of external counsel working alongside you and your in-house team.