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Employee Use Of Employer-Owned Computers: When Is The Attorney-Client Privilege Waived?
Increasingly, courts are faced with the question of whether an employee can claim attorney-client privilege with respect to email correspondence captured by an employer's computer or computer system. Indeed, we have had occasion to discuss these issues before, most recently in our August 2010...
Read MoreAdditional Burdens For New York State Employers: The New York State Wage Theft Prevention Act
In 2009, Section 195 of the New York Labor Law (the "Labor Law") was amended to require employers to provide certain written information to newly hired employees, including their rates of pay, their regular payday and, if non-exempt, their regular hourly and overtime rates of pay. At the end of...
Read MoreNew Challenges In The Proposed Patent Reform Act Of 2011
Editor: Please describe your practice. Morris: My practice is a mixture of both patent prosecution and patent litigation. I started as a patent agent at Fish & Neave in 1991, graduated from law school in 1995 and made partner in 2001. Eventually, we merged with Ropes & Gray, which I left...
Read MoreSay-On-Pay And Corporate Governance
Editor: Ken, please tell our readers about your practice. Kopelman: I practice corporate and securities law. I co-chair our firm's Corporate Governance practice - made up of attorneys from within both our corporate and litigation departments - which represents boards, board committees (...
Read MoreWhen the Mission Is More Than Obtaining The Highest Price
Editor: Please tell our readers about your practice at Kramer Levin. Rogoff: I am a partner at Kramer Levin, specializing in out-of-court restructurings and Chapter 11 bankruptcies. I have been representing debtors since 1988 throughout many different industries. For the last four years, I have...
Read MoreDodd-Frank: Implications For Private Fund Managers And Non-U.S. Investment Advisers
On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank"), which significantly changes the landscape for investment advisers operating in the United States or taking investment from United States persons. Among other things, Dodd...
Read MoreRecent Developments In Immigration Law
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") has been making unannounced site visits at companies that file H or L work visa petitions for their workers. For the most part, the visits have focused on a company's H-1B workers. The United States Department of Labor ("DOL") also...
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