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Risk Assessment: A Path to Value: Study of approaches and attitudes toward employment matters suggests avenues of influence for inside counsel
In a new survey of in-house counsel, Value Insights: Delivering Value in Labor and Employment Law, Proskauer, a labor and employment pacesetter, set out to better understand the impact of employment law matters on in-house counsel and to uncover ways in which those counsel can add...
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Social Media Roundup
Rhode Island, Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma are the latest states to provide prospective and/or current employees with increased social media protections, following Tennessee, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, California, Michigan, Utah, New Mexico, Arkansas, Colorado,...
Read MoreProskauer's Boston Office 10-Year Anniversary Celebration At The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Global law firm Proskauer marked the 10-year anniversary of its Boston office with a celebration at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, May 28. Within two years of launching in 2004, Proskauer’s Boston office was cited as one of the city’s fastest-growing law firms by the...
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A Summary Of Proskauer’s Survey Of Social Media In The Workplace Around The World 2013-2014
Editor: Please summarize the key findings of Proskauer’s Survey – 2013-2014 Social Media in the Workplace Around the World. Ornstein: Here are some of the key findings of our third annual survey of 110 multinational companies in various parts of the world: Nearly 90 percent of...
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Investment Advisers To Plans May Be Required To Deliver “Disclosure Guide” Under ERISA
On March 12, 2014, the U.S. Department of Labor (the DOL) issued a proposed amendment (the Proposed Amendment) to its final regulations (the Final Regulations) under Section 408(b)(2) of ERISA (commonly referred to as the “necessary services exemption”), which would require covered...
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Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split On Standing In Lanham Act False Advertising Cases
On March 25, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a circuit split on the crucial issue of who has standing to sue for false advertising under the Lanham Act. In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Scalia, the Court held that to have standing, a plaintiff simply must plead "an...
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Better vs. Cheaper? – Court Says Cost Trumps Quality In Health Care; Orders Undoing Of Physician Group Tie-up
The health care industry is in the midst of a revolution caused by demographic changes, advancements in medical understanding and, of course, Obamacare. As health care providers scramble to adjust to this brave new world, the potential benefits of consolidation are never far from their minds....
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