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Many multinational employers negotiate choice-of-law and choice-of-forum provisions that select one jurisdiction's laws or forum over another. A recent decision affirmed that process.
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In a recent decision, the Maryland District Court considered, and rejected, a claim of religious discrimination filed by a former social worker at Genesis Healthcare-Franklin Wood Center (Genesis).
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Regardless of whether an employer is publicly traded or subject to the Dodd-Frank Act, the media attention on whistleblowing and the public awareness created by the statute has increased the whistleblower pressure in all employment settings.
The landlord's lien may be created either by contract under the terms of the lease or through operation of law, and allows the landlord to levy the property located at the demised premises of a tenant who has failed to pay rent.
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Some courts have started to change, amend, or revise unreasonable terms in noncompete agreements to render them enforceable. This practice has become generally described as "Blue Penciling."
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In a development that took some by surprise, on Oct. 9, 2012, the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) issued new policies under the Bribery Act 2010, which could change the way some companies do business.
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Pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, if the parties to litigation fail to take reasonable steps to assure that relevant, non-privileged data is produced to opposing parties in response to discovery requests, courts may impose sanctions and may instruct juries to draw an adverse inference. Consequently, parties to litigation must take special care to adhere to defensible standards and practices when processing electronic data, especially since the overwhelming majority of information generated by…
An immense wave of Dodd-Frank litigation will sweep the federal courts in the coming year, following two years of desultory rule-making by the relevant federal agencies.
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In two recent opinions with wide-ranging practical implications for companies that are the target of shareholder derivative litigation, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Chancery Court issued a scathing critique of the plaintiffs bar's "first-to-file" mentality in derivative suits.
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With sadness, we at Law Journal Newsletters note the passing of Jay Jaffe on Nov. 21. He was a valued member of the Board of Editors <i>Marketing the Law Firm</i> and <i>Internet Law & Strategy</i> and a valued sounding board for the newsletters. He was truly a pioneer in legal marketing and social media. He will be dearly missed.
