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Supreme Court Again Broadens Scope of Fair Employment Anti-Retaliation Provisions

James F. Shea

The end of the Bush administration and the first six weeks of the Obama administration resulted in significant changes to key federal fair employment statutes.But there are also four U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued since June 2006, which have significantly expanded the scope of the anti-retaliation provisions ...

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<B>BREAKING NEWS:</b> Supreme Court Strengthens Arbitration in Labor Case Ruling Image

<B>BREAKING NEWS:</b> Supreme Court Strengthens Arbitration in Labor Case Ruling

Tony Mauro

The Supreme Court's growing embrace of the virtues of arbitration continued on April 1 with a 5-4 ruling endorsing labor contracts that send age discrimination claims to arbitration rather than to federal courts.

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Is Your e-Communication Being Read?

Nancy Roberts Linder

Any way you look at it, e-communication gives you and your firm exposure in an existing or potential client market. Unlike other communication delivery methods, e-communication is the one place a law firm can actually see specific results ' from who received the communication, to whether that person actually viewed the e-mail or forwarded it on to someone else.

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Centralizing Stores of Information to Make Retention Policies Possible

Eric Mosca

Most law firms understand the need to plan for the implementation of records retention policies, but there has been little agreement on how to achieve this goal. Firms are acutely aware of the rising costs associated with storing physical data and the burden surrounding backup, maintenance and migration of electronic content. When faced with the need to produce information, be it at a client request or when compelled by a court, the more control a firm has over its data, the more efficient and cost effective this process will be.

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Democratizing the Social Networks

Harry A. Valetk

Social networking Web sites are hubs of information. Information about our daily activities, the people we know and the people they know. But as these hubs become more than just a virtual place for the global community to link to friends and post "what you are doing right now," we are confronted with fascinating new questions about how we define personal space, disclosures, and express preferences about our own content.

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Rules Governing Fax and E-mail Ads

James H. Laskey, Fernando M. Pinguelo, & Andrew D. Linden

The importance of having a robust compliance policy to review the content of proposed advertisements is well-known and widely accepted. But what may not be as familiar is the need for a separate policy focused on the means of disseminating such advertising.

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Prepare Now for Whistleblower Complaints

Scott E. Gross

In a little publicized section of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 ("2008 Act"), employees in virtually every corner of the consumer products industry were given the right to file lawsuits claiming their employer retaliated against them for having raised consumer product safety concerns.

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Work Authorization Documents

Mark N. Reinharz

A recent decision by a New York State appeals court has provided employers with yet another reason to verify scrupulously the documents provided to it by potential employees.

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Expect Increased Criminal Enforcement of Employment Taxes

Steven Toscher & Dennis Perez

With ever widening budget deficits and economic limitations on raising taxes, the IRS will go in the only direction it can, that is, to mine the "tax gap" ' the difference between the taxes that should have been collected under current law and those that actually are collected.

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The Law Enforcement Response to the Financial Crisis

Mark K. Schonfeld

As the financial crisis has deepened, the pressure for prosecutions from politicians, the media and the public has grown. In turn, federal and state law enforcement and regulatory agencies have devoted vast resources to investigating the crisis.

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