Corporate tweeters or bloggers — employees who post promotional and often entertaining commentary on behalf of their employers’ businesses — add much of their own personal brand — their voice, their opinions, their snarky remarks — to the information they ...

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While there appears to be real momentum to pass a comprehensive bill to reform the nation’s immigration system, employers should also be aware of some smaller-scale developments and proposed changes in immigration law. 

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For chief financial officers of many public companies, compensation disclosures have become a major headache in planning the annual meeting and related annual SEC filings. What once was a technical but stable set of disclosure rules has now become a ...

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Over the last five years, average tenure of a CEO (based on a survey of public and private companies) shrank from 7.3 years to 4.4 years. Focus on CEO succession is becoming more important to boards. Half the members of ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s first ruling addressing the Class Action Fairness Act is the latest bit of good news from Washington for the class action defense bar.

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Deciding where the preemptive effect of federal rules governing drug manufacturing ends and states’ ability to impose liability on drug makers begins has never been an easy task — not even for the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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A hospital could be sued for its alleged negligence in granting a physician credentials to practice medicine at the facility, a Superior Court judge in Worcester, Mass., has ruled.

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An insurance salesman could sue his former employer under the Massachusetts Wage Act for failing to pay him “discretionary” commissions he claimed he earned before he was given notice of his termination, a U.S. District Court judge in Boston has ...

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A union’s “job-targeting program” that subsidized union employers’ bids for steel-erecting jobs did not violate antitrust laws, even though a jury found that the union engaged in illegally coercive tactics in implementing the program, a U.S. District Court judge in ...

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For most lawyers, filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court and publishing a novel within the span of six days — as Bingham McCutchen partner P. Sabin Willett recently did — would qualify as the biggest week of ...

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