Make the Most of Your Law Firm's Lease Expiration
Lease negotiations and the resulting renovations or moves represent a highly sensitive management issue. Here's what you need to know.
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Fine-Tune Your Goals This February
Resist the February blahs by taking a moment to focus your well-intentioned energies and reaffirm your goals. Here's how.
The 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act Is Enacted
The 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA) includes an increase in individual tax rates for high income levels, a permanent patch for the alternative minimum tax, an extension of the gift and estate tax exemption, and extension of certain expiring provisions.
Pregnancy Bias Suit Lands Close to Home
Two California employment attorneys are bringing a pregnancy discrimination suit against a lawyer who also happens to be the daughter of a California Supreme Court justice.
Class Action Against Rite Aid Settles for $20.9M
A federal judge in the Middle District of Pennsylvania has approved a $20.9 million settlement in a wage-and-hour class and collective action against Rite Aid Corp.
Vicarious Liability
It is essential that franchisors know, or at least can predict to some extent, in what circumstances they may be held vicariously liable for the acts of their franchisees and their franchisees' employees. This article explains why and how.
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Unequal Severance Benefits
In an interesting published decision, the Fourth Circuit has held that an offer of less favorable severance benefits to a female may constitute sex discrimination in violation of Title VII.
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Reassignment to a Vacant Position Under the ADA
In a recent decision, the Seventh Circuit held that the ADA obligates employers to reassign employees with disabilities to vacant positions for which they are qualified, provided that such accommodation is reasonable on its face and would not present an undue hardship to the employer.
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Open-Source Risk Management Tools
This article discusses various risk management tools that in-house counsel can rely on to perform effective open-source due diligence in software acquisitions.
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