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Litigation Insights - July 2021

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FOREWORD - On behalf of the new and expanding Goodwin London litigation team I am delighted to welcome you to our first ever ‘Litigation Insights’: a series of quarterly updates on important and interesting developments...more

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Compliance Perspectives: Michael Horowitz, Inspector General at the Department of Justice, on Conducting High Profile Internal...

In Part 2 of this two-part podcast Michael Horowitz addresses issues that would look familiar to any compliance officer who is familiar with investigations: - Determining who should be included in the investigations -...more

A&O Shearman

Northern District Of California Dismisses Putative Class Action Against Digital Payments Company For Failure To Adequately Allege...

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On September 18, 2019, Judge Edward M. Chen of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a putative class action against a digital payment services company and certain of its officers...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

English High Court: Public Interest Outweighed Confidentiality of Arbitration

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Non-parties are entitled to obtain documents related to an arbitration if the case falls within the “interests of justice” exception. In The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators v B, C and D, the English High Court granted...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Litigation and enforcement in Japan: overview

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MAIN DISPUTE RESOLUTION METHODS - 1. What are the main dispute resolution methods used in your jurisdiction to resolve large commercial disputes? Litigation Litigation is the most frequently used dispute...more

Fisher Phillips

And The Beat Goes On… The NLRB's Attack on Confidentiality Continues

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Many employers believe they have the absolute right to prohibit their workers from disclosing “confidential” information to coworkers and third parties. They are dead wrong. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

NLRB Revisits and Overturns Longstanding Precedent Regarding Disclosure of Witness Statements

As we reported in an earlier blog post, the National Labor Relations Board issued the American Baptist Homes of the West (“Piedmont Gardens”) decision in December 2012, overturning more than 30 years of precedent shielding...more

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits...

NLRB Removes Blanket Exemption on Mandatory Disclosure for Witness Statements. What’s an Employer To Do?

The NLRB recently reversed 37 years of precedent in deciding to adopt a new standard for a union’s access to witness statements taken in pre-grievance arbitration employer investigations. For years, under the blanket...more

Baker Donelson

The National Labor Relations Board Expands Union Access to Witness Statements

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On June 26, 2015, in a split 3-2 decision, the National Labor Relations Board (Board), overturned the 37-year-old standard protecting the confidentiality of witness statements taken by employers during workplace...more

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation

“Unpredictable and Potentially Messy”?: NLRB Ruling Could Complicate Employers’ Workplace Investigations

In its June 26 split decision in American Baptist Homes of the West d/b/a Piedmont Gardens and Service Employees International Union, United Healthcare Workers- West, 362 N.L.R.B. No. 139 (Case No. 32-CA-063475) (“Piedmont...more

Morgan Lewis

NLRB Limits Confidentiality in Workplace Investigations

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In two decisions issued on June 26, the National Labor Relations Board overruled its longstanding precedent holding that employers may withhold witness statements from requesting unions and further held that general policies...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

The National Labor Relations Board 2012 Year in Review

Introduction - Wow, 2012 was quite the year for the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”)! Last year, we discussed the Board’s agenda, which at the time we described as aggressive, but with the benefit of...more

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