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.
March 30, 2009Mark N. Reinharz
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.
March 30, 2009Steven Toscher and Dennis PerezAs 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.
March 30, 2009Mark K. SchonfeldThe 21st century is clearly the age of cybercrime, and e-commerce companies of all stripes should be especially concerned because there are only two types of computer systems: those that have been hacked, and those that will be hacked.
March 30, 2009Henfree Chan and Bruce S. SchaefferThere are several often-overlooked strategies for defending against trade-misappropriation claims. The first I call the Trade Secret Per Se Doctrine. The second pertains to open-source software. Both of these strategies need to be fully considered in appropriate trade-secret misappropriation cases, to which e-commerce counsel are no strangers.
March 30, 2009J. T. WestermeierThis article explores some of the legal and practical considerations that go into lifting a litigation hold and minimizing the risk of the activity.
March 30, 2009Sarah L. OlsonThe Supreme Court's decisive ruling on March 4 against Wyeth in a landmark pharmaceutical product liability case may also close off a major front in a hard-fought battle by businesses and the Bush administration to insulate national corporations from state tort litigation.
March 05, 2009Tony MauroThe Supreme Court's decisive ruling on March 4 against Wyeth in a landmark pharmaceutical product liability case may also close off a major front in a hard-fought battle by businesses and the Bush administration to insulate national corporations from state tort litigation.
March 05, 2009Tony MauroIn this heightened enforcement environment, it is more important than ever that corporate general counsel be ready and able to navigate a minefield of complex issues as soon as they become aware that their company is the focus of a government investigation.
February 23, 2009David Krakoff and Peter WhiteWhen is history simply that: "history"? Perhaps never under the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which sailed through the House and Senate in January and became the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama.
February 19, 2009Holly S. A. Eng and Kahla Bunde