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[Virtual Event] Complex Employment Litigation & Risk Management - February 10th, 10:00 am - 6:15 pm EDT

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 10/26/2020

Critical Guidance on Managing Covid-19 and More High Stakes Issues Coming Across Your Desk. As industry grapples with unprecedented risk and uncertainty, in-house counsel and private practitioners are set to attend ACI’s...more

Advance! Amend! Retreat!

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 11/4/2019

The title of this post describes not an army maneuver, but the outcome of a recent lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court for advancement of litigation expenses in which...more

Working Wise: Tips and Common Mistakes to Avoid for Employers in California

K&L Gates LLP on 5/9/2019

In this episode of the Working Wise Podcast Series, K&L Gates Los Angeles Associate Saman Rejali provides an overview of tips and common mistakes to avoid for employers doing business in California....more

Gavel to Gavel: Hiring a lawyer? Do it right the first time

McAfee & Taft on 3/14/2019

As a trial lawyer whose practice encompasses a broad range of complex business disputes — from business breakups and contract disputes to trust and estate litigation and lawsuits over real estate — my work is varied, as are...more

California Employers To Face Raft Of New #MeToo Laws

Fisher Phillips on 10/2/2018

Wrapping up a whirlwind weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown just signed several pieces of legislation that will create new employer obligations in the areas of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. Specifically,...more

When the costs of litigation catch up with delinquent state actors

Hogan Lovells on 8/17/2017

In July last year the Labour Court handed down a very important judgment against the SABC, in which it reinstated a number of dismissed employees following what we, in time, have come to learn has been political interference...more

Mining company doomed in resurrected 'mark of the beast' lawsuit

Burr & Forman on 8/8/2017

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all South Carolina employers) recently decided a religious accommodation case in which a jury awarded a former employee more than half a million dollars. The Equal...more

Can an Employer Back out of a Promise to Provide Advancement by Claiming That the Employee Committed Fraud?

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP on 12/8/2016

Numerous decisions from the Delaware courts establish that a company cannot abandon its promise to advance legal fees and expenses when the covered director, officer, or employee properly invokes it....more

Plaintiff May Recover Statutory Costs After a Voluntary Dismissal

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP on 3/15/2016

In deSaulles v. Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (H038184, Superior Court No. M85528), the Sixth Appellate District held a plaintiff is entitled to statutory costs as the prevailing party where a voluntary...more

That is SO last week - September 2015 #2

Zelle LLP on 9/15/2015

Last week, Ellen Pao withdrew the appeal in her sex discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins. The Pao v. Kleiner Perkins trial captivated Silicon Valley as it sought to spotlight all-male company ski trips and double...more

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