Litigation

Labor & Employment

William C. Martucci, Ashley N. Harrison | Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

The plaintiffs’ bar has increasingly used class action litigation in recent years to reap large damages from employers. That increase has not been lacking in wage and hour litigation. Both the collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the state-law-based...

Appellate Law

Timothy Cornell | Clifford Chance

For more than two decades, the Supreme Court has been scaling back the scope of what is considered per se illegal under the U.S. antitrust laws. Until recently, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and Department of Justice ("DOJ") have seemingly followed suit, if not...

Appellate Law

Rex S. Heinke, Adam Winkler | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Winkler: There’s been a longstanding debate about whether the Roberts Court is business-friendly. While there are different points of view, from an academic perspective, it’s pretty clear that the current Justices lean decidedly in favor of business interests.[1] This term, business...