Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%

Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.

Pre-Employment Physical Strength Testing Image

Pre-Employment Physical Strength Testing

William C. Martucci & Kristen A. Page

Pre-employment testing has always been risky business, but a recent high-dollar jury verdict has sharpened the focus on such testing. In the latter months of 2006, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered and affirmed a $3.4 million verdict in favor of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a case involving an employer's efforts to reduce workplace injuries through pre-employment testing.

News Briefs Image

News Briefs

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.

Features

Court Watch Image

Court Watch

Christopher M. Hanes

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

Too Little, Too Late: The Franchisee's Perspective on the Revised FTC Franchise Rule Image

Too Little, Too Late: The Franchisee's Perspective on the Revised FTC Franchise Rule

Susan P. Kezios

The Federal Trade Commission ('FTC') labored a dozen years to revise its Franchise Rule ' only to give birth to a mouse.

Features

Competition Law and Distribution in East Asia Image

Competition Law and Distribution in East Asia

William P. Johnson

While franchise lawyers, both domestically and in foreign jurisdictions, tend to focus their primary attention on matters of importance that are specific to franchise relationships, most are keenly aware that franchising is essentially just a form of distribution. Therefore, laws and regulations of broader impact can often be of critical importance. While distribution systems may often escape the applicability of franchise laws, franchise relationships nevertheless often have to deal with those affecting distribution generally.

Associations Seek Role in Accounting Standard Reinterpretation Image

Associations Seek Role in Accounting Standard Reinterpretation

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

In a recent development in the ongoing reinterpretation of the accounting standard for commercial leases by the International Accounting Standards Board ('IASB') and the Financial Accounting Standards Board ('FASB'), The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association ('ELFA') has announced that six equipment finance representative associations from around the world have signed a joint communication seeking to have them play an instrumental and constructive role in the process. The joint communication by the ELFA, the UK Finance and Leasing Association, Leaseurope, the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association, the Australian Finance Conference, and the Canadian Finance & Leasing Association set forth 11 key principles that should be addressed as the IASB and FASB proceed with deliberations toward a single, efficient global leasing standard.

In the Marketplace Image

In the Marketplace

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.

Features

Movers & Shakers Image

Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Who's doing what; who's going where.

Features

Drug & Device News Image

Drug & Device News

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Information you need to know.

Personal Liability for Excess Verdicts Image

Personal Liability for Excess Verdicts

Debra Sydnor & Natalie S. Whiteman

In today's litigious environment, physicians consistently struggle with rising malpractice premiums. For those inclined to stop reading here, this article will not attempt to rehash the contentious debate over why malpractice premiums continue to rise. Rather, we want to discuss a fairly new and rapidly growing problem for physicians: personal liability for excess verdicts.

Need Help?

  1. Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
  2. Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.

MOST POPULAR STORIES

  • Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
    There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
    Read More ›
  • Compliance Officers and Law Enforcement: Friends or Foes?
    <b><i>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p>As we saw in Part One, regulators have recently shown a tendency to focus on compliance officers who they deem to have failed to ensure that the compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) programs that they oversee adequately prevented corporate wrongdoing, and there are several indications that regulators will continue to target compliance officers in 2018 in actions focused on Bank Secrecy Act/AML compliance.
    Read More ›
  • Artist Challenges Copyright Office Refusal to Register Award-Winning AI-Assisted Work
    Copyright law has long struggled to keep pace with advances in technology, and the debate around the copyrightability of AI-assisted works is no exception. At issue is the human authorship requirement: the principle that a work must have a human author to be eligible for copyright protection. While the Copyright Office has previously cited this "bedrock requirement of copyright" to reject registrations, recent decisions have focused on the role of human authorship in the context of AI.
    Read More ›