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Practical pieces about employment law trends and how companies can stay compliant with quickly changing regulations and case law. A recent focus is how Legal should handle #MeToo and accusations of harassment and discrimination.
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5 Law Firms Make Key Hires in London
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | October 29, 2024
McDermott Will & Emery, Ashurst, Goodwin Procter, Taylor Wessing and Mishcon de Reya are among the hirers in a busy market this week.
2 minute read
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Dentons Australian CEO Stands Aside Amid Anti-Vax Email Claims
By Christopher Niesche | September 25, 2024
Doug Stipanicev is accused of sending anti-vax and antisemitic material.
3 minute read
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Ogletree Deakins Bolsters Canadian Bench with Five New Lawyers
By Gail J. Cohen | September 10, 2024
Partners hail from Norton Rose Fulbright and telecom company Telus to bring labor and employment firm up to 19 lawyers in Canada.
2 minute read
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Leigh Day Defeats Eversheds to Win Equal Pay Award For Next Employees
By Jack Womack | August 28, 2024
Leigh Day said that the amount payable by Next as a result of the win is estimated to be in excess of £30 million.
2 minute read
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David v Goliath: Tiny Irish Firm Wins Elon Musk Twitter Case in Employment Tribunal
By Louis Altmann | August 15, 2024
Kenny Sullivan Solicitors hailed the win as a triumph for employment rights in Ireland.
3 minute read
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Ogletree Deakins Opens Munich Office, Lures Two Partners from SKW Schwarz
By James Jackson | August 2, 2024
The international firm continues its global growth with a new German office with partners focused on IT and technology.
1 minute read
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Japan Streamlines Registration Process For Foreign Lawyers
By Louis Altmann | July 31, 2024
The move could see an influx of lawyers from overseas after an agreement to simplify the registration process.
2 minute read
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Executive Employment Disputes Become More Hard-Fought in Australia
By Christopher Niesche | July 9, 2024
Companies are taking a harder line on misconduct, while employees are fighting noncompete clauses and other work restraints.
4 minute read
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Prime Minister Starmer: How Labour Policies Could Disrupt Law Firm LLPs
By Louis Altmann | July 5, 2024
Partners may gain or lose rights depending on which side of the line they fall, under Labour's potential new employment regime.
3 minute read
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Britain's Labour Party Manifesto: 5 Crucial Insights From Lawyers
By Louis Altmann | June 13, 2024
"Private equity is the only industry where performance-related pay is treated as capital gains. Labour will close this loophole," - 2024 manifesto.
5 minute read
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The Time Is Now for Employers to Assess Risk of Employees’ Use of DeepSeek
By Leonard J. Dietzen III and Derek Dzwonkowski | February 4, 2025
DeepSeek-V3 became the most downloaded app across the world in Apple’s app stores less than one week after its release, including in the United States. Employers should be aware of this new AI and how its use could impact their companies.
1 minute read
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Troutman Pepper, Claiming Ex-Associate's Firing Was Performance Related, Seeks Summary Judgment in Discrimination Suit
By Amanda O'Brien | February 3, 2025
Former associate Gita Sankano sued the firm in 2024 claiming that she was fired in retaliation for raising complaints about allegedly racist behavior by firm partners.
1 minute read
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Boosting Litigation and Employee Benefits Practices, Two Am Law 100 Firms Grow in Pittsburgh
By Amanda O'Brien | February 3, 2025
Blank Rome has brought former Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir litigation co-chair Christina McKinley as a partner, while Morgan Lewis has rehired employee benefits attorney and former U.S. Air Force captain Matthew Chapman, who served as a corporate associate with the firm before jumping to K&L Gates.
1 minute read
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Was $1.3M in 'Incentive' Payments Commission? NJ Justices Weigh Arguments
By Colleen Murphy | February 3, 2025
If the justices determine the payment was a supplementary incentive it would bar the plaintiff from recovering 200% of lost wages and attorney costs and fees.
1 minute read
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Troutman Pepper Says Ex-Associate Who Alleged Racial Discrimination Lost Job Because of Failure to Improve
By Amanda O'Brien | February 3, 2025
Former associate Gita Sankano sued the firm in 2024 claiming that she was fired in retaliation for raising complaints about allegedly racist behavior by firm partners.
1 minute read
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PAGA Claims Must Now Be 'Headed'
By JJ Johnston | January 31, 2025
As long as an employee has standing to bring a representative action on behalf of fellow employees, he or she must first arbitrate any individual PAGA claim based on those same violations.
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Trump’s Firing of NLRB Member Could Spark Review of Supreme Court Precedent
By Avalon Zoppo | January 29, 2025
President Donald Trump's firing of Gwynne Wilcox spurred the now former NLRB member to say she will be "pursuing all legal avenues" to challenge her removal from the five-member board three years before her term was set to expire, according to media reports.
1 minute read
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Class Action Claims Amazon's Point-Based Attendance Policy Is Discriminatory, Suit Says
By Riley Brennan | January 29, 2025
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide. Sign up today and be among the first to know about new suits in your region, practice area or client sector.
1 minute read
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Trump Fires EEOC Commissioners, Kneecapping Democrat-Controlled Civil Rights Agency
By Greg Andrews | January 29, 2025
A White House official defended the purge, calling the three women from the two agencies who lost their jobs "far-left appointees with radical records of upending longstanding labor law."
1 minute read
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Imputing Negligence and Risk Transfer
By Julian D. Ehrlich | January 29, 2025
New York case law allows owners and general contractors in Labor Law cases to impute workers’ negligence to their employers through third-party contractual indemnity claims. Julian Ehrlich discusses how this principle should also enable owners and general contractors to obtain additional insured coverage from most employers’ commercial general liability insurance policies.
1 minute read
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