Other Litigation and Disputes

Other Litigation and Disputes Articles

• In-House Counsel – Represent Employee, Risk Malpractice

  Depositions of employees arise all the time. As in-house counsel, are you representing these employees at the deposition? What are your ethical obligations if you do? A recent California appellate court case should serve as a warning to in-house ...

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• Litigation Finance – The Tenets of Dispute Funding

  Courtesy of West LegalEdcenter's Wall Street Lawyer. Subscribe now for in-depth coverage of Securities in the Electronic Age. Over the last few years, many have heard of litigation finance for the first time. Despite extensive press coverage of ...

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• Reducing Crime and Drug Dealing by Improving Place Management: A Randomized Experiment

  Series: NIJ Research Preview Author(s): John E. Eck and Julie Wartell Published: January 1999 Subject(s): Drug abuse, drug law enforcement 6 pages 10,000 bytes ------------------------------ Figures, charts, forms, and tables are not included in ...

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• Administrative Law & Regulation What Next for Negotiated Rulemaking?

  A panel discussion on the future of the negotiated rulemaing process with: Jay Lefkowitz, General Counsel, White House Office of Management and Budget Professor Philip Harter, Director of the Program on Consensus, Democracy and Governance, and ...

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• Amendments To Delaware’s Discrimination In Employment Act Establish New Administrative Procedures And Create A New Right To Sue In State Court

  While changes in the Delaware Discrimination Act are of note to all employers, the recent changes in the Act are of special significance to small employers who employ fewer than fifteen (15) people. Employers employing fifteen (15) or more employees ...

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• An Update On Conflicts And Ethical Issues

  1. a. Minnesota recently addressed the issues related to the use of e-mail, and both analog and digital cordless and cellular telephones. b. Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board Opinion No. 19(1) notes that a lawyer may utilize these methods ...

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• Another CEQA Procedural Trap: Failure to Notify a Trustee Agency Overturns Project Approvals

  Applicants, public agencies and their land use counsel often watch anxiously to see if project opponents will appear at a public hearing to raise objections to a proposed project's CEQA compliance. If project opponents "fail to exhaust" their ...

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• Antitrust Enforcement and The Consumer

  Washington, D.C. 20530 Many consumers have never heard of antitrust laws, but when these laws are effectively and responsibly enforced, they can save consumers millions and even billions of dollars a year in illegal overcharges. Most states have ...

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• Antitrust Updates: Association for Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy Association Highlights

  A completed corporate merger may be challenged on antitrust grounds under Section 7 of the Clayton Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has ruled in a case involving a complaint challenging the merger of Northwest and Republic ...

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• Application of the National Labor Relations Act to Non-Union Employers

  Many non-union employers assume that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) has no effect on their company. Recent rulings of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) demonstrate the need for non-union employers to be aware of their employee’s ...

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