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EEOC Sues Kelley Drye for Age Bias over Compensation System

Nate Raymond

In late January, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Kelley Drye & Warren for its use of a compensation system that the agency claims discriminates against attorneys based on their age.

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What to Expect When Your Employee Is Expecting

Emily J. Glendinning & Gil A. Abramson

Pregnancy discrimination complaints are steadily on the rise, necessitating a renewed focus by employers on ensuring compliance with pregnancy discrimination laws.

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How Companies Are Addressing Social Media Risk

Melissa Krasnow

For companies, social media presents both opportunities and risks. These risks include reputational, brand, legal, regulatory and security concerns. This article outlines some approaches that companies are taking to manage these risks.

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Blogging and Your Business

Barbara E. Hoey

As in-house counsel, if your employees post a blog comment, or an entry on Facebook or Twitter about your company or its products, a number of questions are raised. Is the company responsible?

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Dissecting the Latest Pronouncements on Ex parte Physician Interviews

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

There is a recurring battle playing out in trial courts across the country in medical negligence cases as to whether <i>ex parte</i> interviews with a patient's treating physicians are permissible under HIPAA and its implementing privacy rules.

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April issue in PDF format

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

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The Battle of Experts

John Ratkowitz

The first installment of this article discussed how facts and opinions are not the only things a jury considers in deciding the outcome of a medical malpractice case; jurors also pay close attention to large and small gaffes that may show an expert is biased. How can you best exploit these lapses when showing that the other side's experts are less reliable than they might appear?

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The Internet Has Diminished Privacy Expectations and Torts

Jonathan Bick

Blogs, social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter) and news sites, when accessible via search engines (Google) and other Internet data-mining applications, afford the public astounding access to previously inaccessible information about other people, with unprecedented speed and accuracy. By doing so, the Internet is changing society's expectation of privacy and, as a result, reducing the prevalence of what is perceived to be an actionable privacy violation, and actions about and awards for these.

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A Checklist for Cloud Computing Deals

Edward A. Pisacreta

Cloud computing has become the technology buzzword of the new decade. The idea, as e-commerce and tech-company (or tech-savvy) counsel may know, is to use a multilayered network of servers and computers to provide computing and hosting power when needed ' sort of a front-end and back-office supplement and backup system without much of the in-house worries that go with those investments in IT structure.

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The Determination of a Corporation's 'Principal Place of Business'

Jeremy A. Rist & Catherine A. Armentano

What is the "principal place of business" of a multinational corporation that has corporate headquarters in New York, but enjoys relatively few sales in that state, and instead conducts business in all 50 states and 39 other nations? What is "Business," anyway?

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