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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The Latest Major Developments in NC and SC Business Litigation

Employers in South Carolina faced with litigation might have an easier time winning motions for summary judgment, noncompete agreements remain in the crosshairs, and the North Carolina Supreme Court offered some rare how-to...more

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FLSA Privilege Cases Show Employers Cannot Have Their Cake And Eat It!

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Naturally, lawyers give employer clients advice about the legality of their compensation practices, including who and who is not an independent contractor. Sometimes, an employer defendant will want to use the advice given...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Worker Classification Investigations Highlighted

Last week, the Internal Revenue Service issued a polite notice (IR-2021-186) to employers and tax practitioners, as part of National Small Business Week, “to remind… business owners to correctly identify workers as employees...more

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Washington Supreme Court Extends Corporate Privilege to Non-Employee Contractors

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More than thirty years ago, the Washington Supreme Court ruled defense counsel may not engage in ex parte communications with a plaintiff’s treating physician. Loudon v. Mhyre, 110 Wn.2d 675, 676 (1988). The Loudon rule, as...more

Freeman Law

The Federal Tax Law and Lawyers

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In many respects, operating a law firm is no different than any other business. Specifically, the law firm generates revenues through providing services to its clients and incurs various operating expenses throughout the...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Washington Supreme Court Extends Corporate Privilege to Non-Employee Agents

The Washington Supreme Court decided that a corporation's attorney-client privilege may protect communications with independent contractors and other non-employee agents in a recent decision styled Hermanson v. MultiCare...more

Troutman Pepper

Protecting Privilege When Communicating With Contractors

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As more businesses rely on independent contractors and specialists, the courts continue to define where those independent contractors fit for purposes of the attorney-client privilege. Here we discuss recent decisions...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

USDOL Accelerates Attack on Businesses Using Contract Service Providers

The U.S. Department of Labor has launched two major initiatives designed to encourage individual workers who are contract service providers to bring misclassification claims and lawsuits. According to the Department, “most...more

McGuireWoods LLP

A Southern District of New York Decision Adopts Narrow Views of Privilege Protection for Independent Contractors and...

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Last week's Privilege Point described the Southern District of New York's prediction that the Second Circuit might reject the widely-accepted "functional equivalent" doctrine. Church & Dwight Co. Inc. v. SPD Swiss Precision...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The In-House Attorney-Client Privilege

It’s simple—the attorney-client privilege protects from discovery communications between a client and his or her lawyer. It’s challenging—the privilege applies to communications between (some) corporate representatives and...more

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