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Wells Fargo, Ending Its Appeal, Settles Whistleblower's $577K Retaliation Case Image

Wells Fargo, Ending Its Appeal, Settles Whistleblower's $577K Retaliation Case

C. Ryan Barber

Wells Fargo & Co. has reached a settlement with a former branch manager who claimed she was fired for blowing the whistle on employees who had been opening accounts without permission, the sales-pressure conduct at issue in a scandal that erupted in 2016.

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<i>e-Discovery:</i> Four Cases Highlighting e-Discovery Trends in the Second Half of 2017 Image

<i>e-Discovery:</i> Four Cases Highlighting e-Discovery Trends in the Second Half of 2017

Mike Hamilton

In the second half of 2017, case law served to clarify what does and does not constitute reasonable policies and procedures for preserving information subject to discovery — as well as the risks you run if you fail to follow through on those policies.

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Online Marketing Practices Continue to Pose Regulatory Threats for the Financial Services Industry Image

Online Marketing Practices Continue to Pose Regulatory Threats for the Financial Services Industry

Craig Nazzaro, Brad Rustin & Elizabeth A. DeVos 

Last year, the FTC released a staff report on Cross-Device Tracking, which added to the FTC's efforts to regulate emerging issues in the ever-evolving area of online behavioral advertising. The advertising in question involves the collection of data from a particular computer or device regarding a user's Internet-viewing behavior over time and across non-affiliate websites. Cross-device tracking is the logical next step for this technology.

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Serving Two Masters: When 'Bankruptcy Remote' Meets Public Policy Image

Serving Two Masters: When 'Bankruptcy Remote' Meets Public Policy

Pamela J. Martinson

<i><b>How Lenders to BREs Can Reduce the Risk of Debtor Bankruptcy Without Compromising Public Policies</b></i><p>Structured financing transactions, including those pertaining to commercial real estate, make extensive use of entities formed for the specific purpose of reducing the likelihood that assets will be involved in a potential bankruptcy proceeding. Known as “bankruptcy-remote entities,” or “BREs,” these entities are subject to structures and covenants in financing documents and their own formation documents, which are designed to reduce the likelihood that the BRE will file for bankruptcy protection.

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<i>Leadership:</i> No Immunity: Sexual Harassment & the Legal Industry Image

<i>Leadership:</i> No Immunity: Sexual Harassment & the Legal Industry

John Hellerman

For members of a conservative industry that — literally — wrote the rulebook on sexual harassment, law firms need to be ready for a day of reckoning that seems inescapable (and may have already happened by the time this article is published).

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

“Dead Man Statute” No Bar to Testimony About Alleged Oral Contract for Share of Royalties from Ben E. King Songs<br>Eleventh Circuit Sees No Personal Jurisdiction in Malpractice Lawsuit Against Law Firm that Handled Concert Industry Litigation<br>Tax Court Finds No Profit Motive in Music Club Operation

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Takeaways from the Swift End to <i>Waymo v. Uber</i> Image

Takeaways from the Swift End to <i>Waymo v. Uber</i>

Ross Todd

The details might not be quite as dramatic as they were in <i>Waymo v. Uber</i>, but lawyers expect trade secrets to continue to be a fertile source for litigation.

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Anti-Forfeiture Statute Saves a Debtor's Exercise of Option to Renew Lease Image

Anti-Forfeiture Statute Saves a Debtor's Exercise of Option to Renew Lease

Barry M. Klayman & Mark E. Felger

In a recent decision, Bankruptcy Judge Christopher S. Sontchi addressed the question of whether a Chapter 11 debtor, the tenant under a commercial lease, could exercise an option to renew the lease during the bankruptcy proceedings, even though the debtor was in default under the lease and the lease specified that it could not be renewed if defaults existed at the time the option was exercised.

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Landlord & Tenant

ssalkin

Section 8 Status Protects Tenant from Eviction<br>Questions of Fact About Acceptance of Surrender

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In the Courts

Colleen Snow

Turkish Banker Conspired to Evade U.S. Sanctions

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