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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Buyer Beware: Delaware Courts Continue to Refuse to Enforce Deal-Based Non-Competes

In a blog earlier this year, we discussed the Delaware Chancery Court’s refusal to enforce a sale of business non-compete in Kodiak Building Partners, LLC v Adams. We wondered then whether Kodiak represented a one-off...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Collision at the Intersection of Construction and Intellectual Property Law: Are You Protecting Your Firm's Trade Secrets?

The construction industry is full of valuable business information including customer lists, pricing information, project budgets, and more. The value of such information may be lost if it becomes known to a competitor or the...more

Perkins Coie

Supreme Court Limits Federal Courts’ Jurisdiction to Enforce Arbitration Awards

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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts cannot enforce or vacate arbitration awards under Sections 9 and 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., unless they have an independent...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules that Independent Contractor Test Applies to Franchisees

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On March 24, 2022, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in Patel v. 7-Eleven that the test for independent contractor status set forth in the Massachusetts independent contractor statute applies to the...more

Hogan Lovells

The importance of getting your notices right

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Where notice requirements are clear and unambiguous, those required to give notices should expect them to be strictly enforced. In the recent Court of Appeal decision Maeda Kensetsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha v. Bauer Hong Kong...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

COVID-19 Client Primer | Class Actions and Mass Actions

Class Actions and Mass Actions - As the impact of COVID-19 continues to unfold across all aspects of American society, class action lawyers are already beginning to file lawsuits....more

Carlton Fields

2018 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey

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The seventh annual Carlton Fields Class Action Survey, released April 24, reveals important issues and trends related to class action matters and management based on interviews with general counsel or senior legal officers at...more

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