Employment

  • July 01, 2025

    WWE Accuser's Firm Beats Default Motion In Defamation Case

    The law firm representing a former World Wrestling Entertainment staffer on sex trafficking and abuse claims has avoided loss by default in a separate but related Connecticut federal lawsuit that alleges the firm and one of its attorneys defamed a celebrity doctor.

  • July 01, 2025

    BCLP Hires Jackson Lewis Labor Partner In NY

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP announced Tuesday it hired a Jackson Lewis PC equity principal to its employment and labor practice in New York.

  • July 01, 2025

    HomeSafe Layoffs After Lost DOD Contract Spur Suit

    A Georgia man hit KBR Inc. and HomeSafe Alliance LLC with a proposed class action alleging that they failed to provide notice before terminating some 200 employees after the U.S. government scrapped a moving services contract worth up to $20 billion for performance troubles.

  • July 01, 2025

    NY Equinox Trainers Score $12M In Unpaid Wages Settlement

    A New York federal court has given final approval to a $12 million settlement between upscale gym chain Equinox and its personal trainers, whose Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit accused the company of shorting them on overtime wages.

  • July 01, 2025

    RI Judge Orders Halt To HHS Layoffs, Reorganization

    A Rhode Island federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, finding the reorganization usurped congressional spending authority and likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

  • July 01, 2025

    DOL Rule Would Reverse Obama-Era Domestic Worker Regs

    The U.S. Department of Labor is looking to roll back Obama-era regulations that redefined domestic service workers and required they be paid minimum and overtime wages, saying returning to regulations from 1975 could help expand access to care services.

  • July 01, 2025

    Boston Globe, Former Exec Settle Ahead Of Trial Over Firing

    The Boston Globe and a former high-ranking executive have reported settling a lawsuit over his 2021 firing, days before a trial in Massachusetts state court was set to begin.

  • June 30, 2025

    NC Insurance Agents Say Contract Is 'Unconscionable'

    An insurance marketing organization drafted a bad-faith contract designed to punish insurance agents and strip them of a guarantee to free sales leads, former agents alleged in a third-party complaint filed in North Carolina Business Court.

  • June 30, 2025

    DOL Plans To Nix H-2A Farmworker Organizing Protections

    The Trump administration is planning to roll back a Biden-era rule that protected seasonal farmworkers on H-2A visas from facing retaliation for workplace organizing, with the U.S. Department of Labor announcing its intent to rescind the contentious 2024 rule Monday.

  • June 30, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Delaware's Supreme Court was kept busy this past week with litigants' attempts to challenge its previous decisions, as well as those of Delaware's Court of Chancery, which included an argument that the state's high court incorrectly ruled in favor of energy company Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP by rejecting the Chancery's decision upholding class claims branding the call-in of public shares unfair. In case you missed it, here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.

  • June 30, 2025

    Ex-Geico Sales Rep. Denied Class Cert., For Now

    A Georgia federal judge on Monday shot down a former Geico call center worker's bid to certify a class of more than 1,000 sales representatives who said the insurance company hasn't paid them for pre- and post-shift work, finding their theory of the case was "not supported by the evidence."

  • June 30, 2025

    Ex-Defender Tells 4th Circ. Bias Hearing Would've Been Futile

    A former assistant public defender looking to revive her bias suit fought Monday to convince the Fourth Circuit that it would have been futile to wait for a final hearing on her sexual harassment claim through the judiciary's internal complaint process before quitting, citing in part her boss's alleged favoritism of the accused party.

  • June 30, 2025

    9 Charged With Cyberfraud In Aid Of North Korea

    Eight Chinese and Taiwanese nationals and a New Jersey resident have been charged in a cyberfraud scheme on behalf of North Korea, in which they allegedly posed as American information technology workers to get remote jobs with U.S. Fortune 500 companies and one defense contractor, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced Monday.

  • June 30, 2025

    Texas Justices Scrap New-Trial Order For 3 SpaceX Contractors

    Comments to a jury alleging attorneys planned a "shakedown" do not warrant a new trial for three men awarded less in damages than they hoped after their truck was hit in a crash caused by a commuting SpaceX engineer, the Texas Supreme Court said Friday, saying the men's counsel did not seek redress at the time.

  • June 30, 2025

    4th Circ. Won't Rethink Tossed Pregnancy Bias Suit

    The Fourth Circuit has said it would not reconsider the dismissal of a lawsuit in which a former medical center worker claimed she was denied fair accommodation and fired due to pregnancy bias.

  • June 30, 2025

    Consulting Firm Says Ex-Exec's Wage Suit Is In Wrong Venue

    Consulting firm Profit Drivers LLC, its sole member and its chief executive officer have asked a Connecticut federal judge to dismiss a suit brought by their onetime vice president and chief financial officer claiming he was never paid for his work, arguing they have no ties to the Constitution State.

  • June 30, 2025

    Judge Mulls Mariano's OT Exemption With A Baseball Analogy

    An Illinois federal judge considering whether to declassify collectives of grocery store managers claiming a Kroger subsidiary misclassified them as being exempt from overtime pay compared them Monday to baseball player-managers like Pete Rose and pressed the parties to address "when a player-manager is more like a player than a manager."

  • June 30, 2025

    Trump Admin Appeals Perkins Coie Case To DC Circ.

    The Trump administration announced in D.C. federal court on Monday that it's not giving up on its effort to punish Perkins Coie LLP through an executive order, even after losing four court rulings that found its actions in this and three similar cases are unconstitutional.

  • June 30, 2025

    Taft Hires Ex-Stinson Phoenix Managing Partner, 5 Other Attys

    Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced Monday that it has hired four partners and two associates for its Phoenix office from Stinson LLP, including Lonnie Williams Jr., the former office managing partner of that firm's Phoenix location.

  • June 30, 2025

    Lin Wood Can't Avoid Legal Costs In Defamation Case

    A Georgia federal judge has found that retired attorney L. Lin Wood can't escape paying his former law partners $750,000 in attorney fees and costs related to a $3.75 million defamation verdict against him, rejecting his argument that the statute governing attorney fees was unconstitutional.

  • June 30, 2025

    Healthcare Co.'s $120K Wage Deal Rejected

    A healthcare company can't move forward with its $120,000 settlement that resolves a collective action accusing it of failing to pay workers overtime wages for off-the-clock work they performed, a Connecticut federal judge ruled, saying the deal forces several workers to release too broad a spectrum of claims.

  • June 30, 2025

    Justices Decline To Hear Ex-Tesla Worker's Whistleblower Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a petition filed by a former Tesla employee who claimed he was retaliated against for reporting various forms of alleged misconduct at a Nevada factory to both company management and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • June 30, 2025

    High Court Turns Away Fired Christian Workers' Vax Bias Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Third Circuit ruling that shuttered Christian workers' suits claiming a healthcare system illegally fired them for opposing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, despite the workers' assertions that the opinion improperly constricted their religious rights.

  • June 30, 2025

    Trump Administration Says Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law

    The Trump administration on Monday informed Harvard University that it had run afoul of federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus from harassment, and threatened to cut all funding from the nation's oldest university.

  • June 30, 2025

    Justices Undo Patients' Win In Gender-Affirming Care Fight

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Fourth Circuit decision that preserved access to gender-affirming care under two state-run health plans, telling the lower court to consider a recent decision by the justices that upheld a Tennessee law limiting treatments for young transgender people.

Expert Analysis

  • What Banks Need To Know About Trump's Executive Orders

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    While the numerous executive orders and memos from the last few weeks don't touch on many of the issues the banking industry expected the Trump administration to address, banks still need to pay attention to the flurry of orders from strategic, compliance and operational perspectives, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • Applying ABA Atty Role Guidance To White Collar Matters

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    The American Bar Association’s recently published guidance, clarifying the duties outside counsel owes to both organizational clients and those organizations' constituents, provides best practices that attorneys representing companies in white collar and other investigative matters should heed, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • Tax-Free Ways To Help Employees After The LA Wildfires

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    Following the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, there are various tax-free ways to give employees the resources and flexibility they need, including simpler methods like disaster relief payments under Internal Revenue Code Section 139 and leave-sharing programs, and others that require more planning, says Ligeia Donis at Baker McKenzie.

  • What Trump Admin's Anti-DEI Push Means For FCA Claims

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    President Donald Trump's recent rescission of a 60-year-old executive order imposing nondiscrimination requirements on certain federal contractors has far-reaching implications, including potential False Claims Act liability for contractors and grant recipients who fail to comply, though it may be a challenge for the government to successfully establish liability, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

  • Improving Comms Between Trial Attys And Tech Witnesses

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    In major litigation involving complex technology, attorneys should employ certain strategies to collaborate with companies' technical personnel more effectively to enhance both the attorney's understanding of the subject matter and the expert's ability to provide effective testimony in court, say attorneys at Buchalter.

  • Navigating Title IX Compliance In The NIL Era

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    As universities push to move more name, image and likeness activity in-house, it's unclear how the NCAA and its members will square implementation of the House settlement with Title IX requirements, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.

  • Series

    Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.

  • It Starts With Training: Anti-Harassment After 'It Ends With Us'

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    Actress Blake Lively's recent sexual harassment and retaliation allegations against her "It Ends With Us" co-star, director and producer, Justin Baldoni, should remind employers of their legal obligations to implement trainings, policies and other measures to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.

  • Opinion

    New DOJ Leaders Should Curb Ill-Conceived Prosecutions

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    First-of-their-kind cases have seemingly led to a string of overly aggressive prosecutions in recent years, so newly sworn-in leaders of the U.S. Department of Justice should consider creating reporting channels to stop unwise prosecutions before they snowball, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

  • Tips For Pharma-Biotech Overlap Reporting In New HSR Form

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    While there’s no secret recipe for reporting overlaps to the Federal Trade Commission in the new Hart-Scott-Rodino Act form, there are several layers of considerations for all pharma-biotech companies and counsel to reflect on internally before reporting on any deal, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.

  • Opinion

    Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay

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    Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.

  • What Justices' FLSA Ruling Means For 2-Step Collective Cert.

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in EMD Sales v. Carrera may have sounded the death knell for the decades-old two-step process to certify collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which could lead more circuits to require a preponderance of the evidence showing that members are similarly situated, says Steven Katz at Constangy.

  • What Day 1 Bondi Memos Mean For Corporate Compliance

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    After Attorney General Pam Bondi’s flurry of memos last week declaring new enforcement priorities on issues ranging from foreign bribery to diversity initiatives, companies must base their compliance programs on an understanding of their own core values and principles, says Hui Chen at CDE Advisors.

  • Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example

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    Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

  • What Employers Should Know For Next Round Of H-1B Filings

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    With the fiscal year 2026 H-1B visa period opening soon, employers should brush up on the registration and filing procedures, as well as organize applicable data, to ensure they are ready for this dynamic, multistep process, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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