Employment

  • February 21, 2025

    Jackson Lewis Adds Hopkins Carley Employment Pro In Calif.

    Labor and employment firm Jackson Lewis PC is bringing in a Hopkins Carley employment law veteran as a principal in its Silicon Valley office.

  • February 21, 2025

    Kroger Workers' $21M Pay System Outage Deal Gets First Nod

    An Ohio federal judge preliminarily approved a $21 million deal between The Kroger Co. and a proposed class of around 47,000 workers who accused it of missing paychecks and making inaccurate deductions to their wages after it switched payroll systems.

  • February 21, 2025

    Justices Knock Ala. For Immunizing State Officials

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled a group of Alabama unemployment applicants can pursue allegations that delays in the state's benefits review process violated their federal civil rights, holding a state law that requires litigants to exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit doesn't bar their procedural claims.

  • February 20, 2025

    DOJ Says Job Protections For ALJs Are Unconstitutional

    The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it no longer backs long-standing job protections for administrative law judges, saying it has determined that the "multiple layers of removal restrictions" shielding ALJs are unconstitutional because they violate the separation of powers doctrine.

  • February 20, 2025

    Trump Admin Must Obey Order To Restore Aid, Judge Says

    A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore foreign assistance funding in accordance with his temporary restraining order, but stopped short of sanctioning the government officials.

  • February 20, 2025

    DOJ Says It Will Drop Immigrant Bias Case Against SpaceX

    The U.S. Department of Justice told a Texas federal judge Thursday that it plans to drop administrative proceedings alleging Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. refused to hire refugees and asylees.

  • February 20, 2025

    Dems Blast 'Reckless' Nuclear Security Worker Firings

    Seven Democratic legislators sent a letter to newly confirmed Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Thursday pressing for answers as to why the Department of Government Efficiency fired hundreds of National Nuclear Security Administration staff members, calling it a "reckless decision."

  • February 20, 2025

    Landmark AI Legislation On Kids, Bias Introduced In Calif.

    A California lawmaker Thursday unveiled first-of-its-kind legislation aimed at protecting children from safety and privacy risks associated with artificial intelligence as well as a revised version of a bill addressing bias by AI tools.

  • February 20, 2025

    Ex-Kirkland IP Atty Asks To Fire Her Bias Suit Atty 'For Cause'

    A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property associate suing Kirkland over bias claims has urged a California federal judge to fire her counsel at Filippatos PLLC and force Filippatos to hand over her client file, disputing Filippatos' assertion that her professional misconduct allegations are a contrived attempt to avoid paying fees.

  • February 20, 2025

    Ex-SEC Lawyer Fights Gov't Bid To Ax Bias Claim Evidence

    A former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer suing the agency for discrimination is fighting its request to have evidence of dismissed claims excluded from the upcoming trial, arguing the government's recent filing is an attempt to stymie her counsel in advance of the March trial.

  • February 20, 2025

    Insurer Can't Quickly Exit Broker Premium Theft Row

    A Louisiana federal court rejected most arguments made by an insurer seeking to avoid professional liability coverage of a broker whose former employee stole policy premiums and failed to secure insurance for clients, leaving the company to cover around $1 million in Hurricane Laura damage.

  • February 20, 2025

    McDonald's Gets Ex-Execs' 4th Depo, Some Fees In Bias Case

    Two former McDonald's executives pursuing race bias claims against the fast-food giant must sit for a fourth deposition and pay certain costs after their attorneys produced more than 1,700 documents their previous counsel had failed to disclose in the case, an Illinois federal judge has said.

  • February 20, 2025

    Unions Call Mass Layoff Of Probationary Fed. Workers Illegal

    The U.S. Office of Personnel Management lacked the authority to order federal agencies to lay off tens of thousands of probationary employees, a group of unions representing federal workers argued in a new lawsuit in California federal court, looking to nullify the office's Feb. 13 mass-layoff directive.

  • February 20, 2025

    Unions' Downsizing Suit Belongs Before FLRA, Judge Says

    A D.C. federal judge denied requests Thursday to block the president from carrying out three federal downsizing initiatives, rejecting unions' argument that their challenge is an exception to the rule that federal union disputes belong before the agency charged with adjudicating them.

  • February 20, 2025

    Barista, NLRB Agree To Put Constitutional Challenge On Ice

    A Texas federal judge on Thursday paused a constitutional challenge against the National Labor Relations Board from a Starbucks worker represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, after the parties requested a stay in light of former board member Gwynne Wilcox's suit over her firing.

  • February 20, 2025

    Nootropics Co. Can't Push Nurse's Suit To Arbitration

    Makers of the Thesis brand of supplements can't push into arbitration a former U.S. Army nurse's lawsuit claiming its nootropics, sometimes called "smart drugs," secretly contained amphetamines, which caused her to fail a drug test and be booted from the military, a Washington federal judge has ruled.

  • February 20, 2025

    Ye Sanctioned Again, Ordered To Sit For Another Deposition

    A California judge on Thursday ordered rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, to sit for a deposition and sanctioned him for failing to appear at a scheduled deposition in a discrimination suit by a former Donda Academy employee, the second time since the Grammy's that the winner was hit with such an order.

  • February 20, 2025

    Dems Seek Answers, Reversals For 'Reckless' VA Cuts

    Democrats in Congress asked Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins to justify how firing 1,000-plus VA employees could possibly benefit veterans, and they called on him to reverse the cuts, stating that they are causing negative impacts.

  • February 20, 2025

    Intel, Israeli Ex-Exec End Bias Suit Over Pro-Hamas Sentiment

    Intel Corp. and an Israeli former executive have agreed to shutter his suit claiming the tech giant fired him following complaints that his boss appeared to support Hamas after the militant group's October 2023 attack took place in Israel, according to a Thursday New York federal court filing.

  • February 20, 2025

    Worker Says Wilson Sports Co. Firing Tied To Paternity Leave

    A former Wilson Sporting Goods Co. employee has filed a Minnesota federal lawsuit accusing the company of firing him for taking parental leave in violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

  • February 20, 2025

    IRS Worker Layoff Could Hamper Enforcement, Groups Warn

    Congressional Democrats, tax and economic policy groups and an IRS workers union warned Thursday that the termination of thousands of Internal Revenue Service employees that began the same day could threaten the agency's ability to enforce tax laws and hamper taxpayer services amid tax-filing season.

  • February 20, 2025

    Unions Demand Insight Into DOGE's Agency Audits

    Worker and consumer advocates asked a D.C. federal judge Thursday to make the Department of Government Efficiency detail its probes into three federal agencies, arguing the information is needed to resolve their claims that the new entity's audits violate the public's privacy rights.

  • February 20, 2025

    State Department Narrows Eligibility For Visa Interview Waivers

    The State Department reverted its criteria for obtaining a visa interview waiver to the agency's pre-COVID-19 standards, narrowing eligibility to applicants who are seeking to renew their nonimmigrant visa of the same classification within 12 months of its expiration.

  • February 20, 2025

    Former Sports Nonprofit Employees Seek Docs In RICO Suit

    Two former employees of the United States Specialty Sports Association who are suing the sports nonprofit for allegedly running an illegal sports gambling operation have asked a Florida federal judge to force the organization to hand over key documents regarding the misuse of funds and the firing of whistleblowers.

  • February 20, 2025

    HHS Rescinds Guidance On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday rescinded guidance for health plans and insurers on complying with the Affordable Care Act's nondiscrimination provisions with regard to gender-affirming care for minors, which President Donald Trump called on the agency to do in a January executive order.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Illinois May Be Gearing Up To Ban E-Verify

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    Recently passed amendments to the Illinois Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act appear to effectively ban the use of E-Verify in the state, but ambiguity means employers will have to weigh the risks of continued use while also taking note of other work authorization requirements imposed by the updates, say Julie Ratliff and Elizabeth Wellhausen at Taft.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • 5th Circ. Shows Admin Rules Can Survive Court Post-Chevron

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    The Fifth Circuit's textual analysis of the Fair Labor Standards Act, contributing to its recent affirming of the U.S. Department of Labor’s authority to set an overtime exemption salary threshold, suggests administrative laws can survive post-Chevron challenges, say Jessi Thaller-Moran and Erin Barker at Brooks Pierce.

  • Politics In California Workplaces: What Employers Must Know

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    As the election looms, it is critical that California employers ensure their compliance with state laws providing robust protections for employees' political activity — including antidiscrimination laws, off-duty conduct laws, employee voting leave laws and more, say Bradford Kelley and Britney Torres at Littler.

  • Conn. Court Split May Lead To Vertical Forum Shopping

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    As shown by a recent ruling in State v. Exxon Mobil, Connecticut state and federal courts are split on personal jurisdiction, and until the Connecticut Supreme Court steps in, parties may be incentivized to forum shop, causing foreign entities to endure costly litigation and uncertain liability, says Matthew Gibbons at Shipman & Goodwin.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • Licensing And Protections For Voice Actors In The Age Of AI

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    While two recently enacted California laws and other recent state and federal legislation largely focus on protecting actors and musicians from the unauthorized use of their digital likenesses by generative artificial intelligence systems, the lesser-known community of professional voice actors also stands to benefit, says attorney Scott Mortman.

  • How The Tide Of EEOC Litigation Rolled Back In FY 2024

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    An analysis of the location, timing and underlying claims asserted in U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission-initiated cases during fiscal year 2024 shows that the commission saw a substantial decrease in litigation activity after a surge last year, but employers should not drop their guard, say Christopher DeGroff and Andrew Scroggins at Seyfarth.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Using Primacy And Recency Effects In Opening Statements

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    By understanding and strategically employing the primacy and recency effects in opening statements, attorneys can significantly enhance their persuasive impact, ensuring that their narrative is both compelling and memorable from the outset, says Bill Kanasky at Courtroom Sciences.

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.

  • A Primer On Navigating The Conrad 30 Immigration Program

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    As the Conrad 30 program opens its annual window to help place immigrant physicians in medically underserved areas, employers and physicians engaged in the process must carefully understand the program's nuanced requirements, say Andrew Desposito and Greg Berk at Sheppard Mullin.

  • How Cos. Can Protect Supply Chains During The Port Strike

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    With dock workers at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts launching a strike that will likely cause severe supply chain disruptions, there are several steps exporters and importers can take to protect their businesses and mitigate increased costs, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

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