Beware the Disloyal Client
At Legal Week: Wal-Mart has demanded a freeze on across-the-board rate increases from its outside counsel, claiming that associate salary hikes have had an unacceptable impact on law firm billing...
View ArticleDoes A Company Have To Have A Document Retention Policy? Apple Doesn’t Have One.
Slashdot led me to this erroneous article at The Industry Standard: According to a recent legal filing (see page 7) in the Psystar vs Apple antitrust case, Apple employees are responsible for...
View ArticleE-Mail Snooping Under the Stored Communications Act; 4th Circuit Requires...
At The National Law Journal (via How Appealing): In a case stemming from an employer’s theft of e-mails from the personal account of an employee who had sued him for sexual harassment, a panel of the...
View ArticleWhy False Claims Act Whistleblower Cases Need Awards Over $50 Million
Via @walterolson, CQ Politics reported yesterday: The Senate rejected a bid Thursday to impose new limits on whistleblower awards as it moved toward passage of legislation to beef up the government’s...
View ArticleConservative Judicial Activists On The Federal Court of Appeals for D.C....
In a stunning display of judicial activism, two conservative judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia re-wrote several recent Department of Defense regulations, a...
View ArticleSen. Franken Restores Justice For Female Employees of Defense Contractors
Good for him: WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of the most public tests of his political skills since taking office in July, Sen. Al Franken pushed through an amendment Tuesday that would withhold defense...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Internal Corporate Investigations by In-House Counsel
At Legal Ethics Blog, Professor Andrew Perlman posts a hypothetical: I was recently a panelist at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s annual conference, and someone in the audience posed an...
View ArticleWall Street Law Firms Band Together To Complain About Judge Rakoff – And Are...
Via the Am Law Daily, the Wall Street Journal had an article about an effort by Bank of America’s lawyers — at Wachtell, Davis Polk, and Cleary Gottlieb — to keep Judge Jed Rakoff from presiding over a...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Fraud And Mistake Under The False Claims Act
The False Claim Act envisions a broad definition under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(b) for when a defendant “knowingly” makes a false or fraudulent claim to the federal government: (b) Knowing and Knowingly...
View ArticleThe Idiot’s Guide Whistleblowing Under The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act
If you suspect your employer has violated securities, tax, or government contract laws, you can contact our firm for a free, confidential, no-obligation consultation using this form. Corporate...
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Third Party Litigation Funding CLE Hosted By The Pennsylvania Bar Institute
You know what’s cool? Apparently a billion dollars isn’t cool, according to Sean Parker, no matter what Justin Timberlake in The Social Network might have to say about it. But what is cool is...
View ArticleFed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) And The Second Winklevoss Lawsuit Against Facebook
Facebook, I wish I knew how to quit you. If we’re not discussing why Mark Zuckerberg won’t sue The Social Network, then we’re talking about you unilaterally changing your Terms of Use or your potential...
View ArticleLady Gaga Lawsuit: Exposing Fraud Or Advertising Lawyers?
Sometimes, a law blogger has to look for compelling legal issues to write about, and sometimes the issues come to them, like when Lady Gaga gets hit with a class action for fraud: The $5 million class...
View ArticleNFL Lockout Injunction Reversal: Using Labor Law Against Employees
Big news in the sporting and antitrust litigation worlds — which overlap considerably — on Friday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (which hears all appeals in federal cases filed...
View ArticleExamining The Outrageous Aaron Swartz Indictment For Computer Fraud
[Update: January 12, 2013. RIP, Aaron Swartz. He was 26. His family has released a statement describing his death as “the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial...
View ArticleRecalled Product Lawsuits Getting Harder, Children’s Tylenol Edition
One thing you learn as a personal injury lawyer is that many everyday products are far more dangerous than you thought. Until I became a lawyer and began screening cases and receiving calls, I hadn’t a...
View ArticleWhy CSX Railroad Sued Successful Asbestos Lawyers For Racketeering
As Rich Lord reported at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The quarry has turned on the hunter in a West Virginia courtroom, and now one of the nation’s biggest transportation companies is locked in a...
View ArticleLawyer Branding And The Race For Actos Bladder Cancer Clients
If you were diagnosed with bladder cancer after using Actos and are reviewing your legal options, please see my Actos Bladder Cancer Lawyers page for patients. I wrote this post for my legal blog,...
View ArticlePoet Laureate Philip Levine On Writing “Where The Poem Leads”
As a lawyer, you’re either a conversationalist, a counselor, a writer, a storyteller, or some mixture of them all. I spend a fair amount of my time reading or writing pleadings and briefs, a fair...
View ArticleDue Process Doesn’t Mean Do Over, Lago Agrio / Chevron Edition
I’ve written a couple times before about the Lago Agrio / Chevron litigation in Ecuador, from questioning why the plaintiffs’ political tactics drew so much criticism but the same standard wasn’t...
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