Rapper 50 Cent is suing his former lawyers for $75 million, accusing them of malpractice and not adequately representing him in business matters, including an intellectual property case involving his line of headphones.
An acrimonious marital breakup has been known to bring out the worst in some people. Those battles increasingly are fought on the technology field, thereby leaving courts to determine complex personal rights issues in the context of grown-ups 'behaving badly.
Rejecting a decade-long attack on Google's mass reproduction of millions of books as well as its presentation of "snippets" ' sections of works set alongside information on how readers can buy the books ' the Second Circuit decided that Google Books has a "highly convincing transformative purpose" and thus is a protected fair use for which the company cannot be held liable under the Copyright Act.
Think you're being responsive to your clients about fees? They think you can do better.
California is cracking down on companies that skirt labor and tax laws by misclassifying workers as independent contractors, and the state has instituted a major change by providing mandatory paid sick leave to nearly all employees in the state. Businesses must be aware of these changes and review their policies and contractual relationships to ensure compliance.
In-depth analysis of two key verdicts.
The (over)use of the summary judgment process in employment discrimination cases has been heartily scrutinized over the years. As this author has pointed out, there is at least one prominent federal judge who thinks the use of summary judgment, as a practice, should be eliminated in these types of cases.
As the year draws to an end, many of the more enlightened law firm managing partners and members of the executive committee assess the results of the current year and begin to develop plans for the coming year.
Much has been written about the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to address equipment leasing disputes, some of it positive and much of it negative. For a variety of reasons, the equipment lessor legal community has historically been reluctant to embrace alternative methods of avoiding protracted litigation.
It seems that the definition of employer under state law is becoming more restrictive but the definition under federal statutes has become more flexible. The reason is a federal political agenda to empower the National Labor Relations Act to encourage collective bargaining of employees of franchises.
