The NLRB general counsel's July 29, 2014, ruling that McDonald's is a joint employer of those who work for its roughly 14,000 franchised restaurants in the United States continues to send ripples through both the legal and business worlds.
Drafting a technology budget that adds value to the firm is increasingly important, and following these five steps will go a long way in ensuring that is the case.
In the courtroom, a business transaction, or on a ball field, a loss can also be a victory. Such is the case for employees in the matter of Nielsen v. AECOM Technology, decided by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in August 2014.
It is not uncommon in the realm of reinsurance disputes ' where the reinsurance contracts at issue very often require an arbitral forum ' for a party that has been victorious on an issue or claim in an initial arbitration (or lawsuit) to attempt to preclude its opponent or a related party from re-adjudicating that same claim or issue in a subsequent arbitration.
President Obama, saying he is fulfilling a promise he made during his 2008 presidential campaign, stepped onto the "net neutrality" battlefield on Nov. 10 by releasing a statement (complete with video) calling on theFCC to adopt rules that prevent Internet service providers from charging more for faster online access and that "protect net neutrality."
In Nielsen v. AECOM Technology, the Second Circuit became the latest circuit to hold that employees need not "definitively and specifically" identify a particular securities law or category of fraud in order to be protected from retaliation. This is a significant victory for employees.
Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) technology has reached critical mass. There are now very sophisticated aircraft that are easy to fly, cost less than a new television, and have the ability to record and broadcast video and other data. While this may sound like a classic American success story, there is a fundamental problem: Most of this activity is illegal in the U.S.
Even though the costs and inefficiencies of paper records are an obvious strain on the law firm business model, law firms struggle with less-paper initiatives for one key reason: according to ILTA members informally surveyed in over 20 cities domestically, about half of today's attorneys would still prefer to work with paper, even if the entire file is digitally available from the DMS.
As any corporation or law firm will attest, the cost of litigation continues to rise and with it the need to identify efficient solutions while maintaining transparency and defensibility. Document review, specifically, has long burdened litigation budgets; however, recent trends in the acceptance of technology integration and more advanced managed review workflows is taking root in the legal landscape.
Cost conscious lawyers and clients sometimes choose to conduct pre-production review of client e-mail in a native e-mail application. Their goal is to cut e-discovery costs by avoiding the data processing and data hosting fees associated with using a dedicated EDD database review tool. Unfortunately, native application review brings with it risks of spoliation and malware infection.
