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Can Your Retirement Plan Survive an ADEA Claim? Image

Can Your Retirement Plan Survive an ADEA Claim?

Karla Grossenbacher

In <i>Kentucky Retirement Systems v. EEOC</i>, 128 the Supreme Court held that, where an employer adopts a pension plan that includes age as a factor, and the employer then treats employees differently based on pension status, an employer will only be liable for disparate treatment under the ADEA if the plaintiff can adduce sufficient evidence to show that the differential treatment was actually motivated by age and not pension status.

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Law Departments Putting Cost-Cutting into Action

Gina Passarella

Cost-control methods in law departments are more than just talk as cost pressures are creating a fundamental shift in the management and operation of the departments and their interaction with outside counsel, results of a recent Hildebrandt International survey suggest.

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Compensation and Risk-Taking

Dan Borge

Spurred on by an angry public, regulators will be requiring banks to demonstrate that their compensation policies do not result in "excessive risk-taking." Any bankers hoping this issue will fade away are going to be disappointed. Risk-based compensation is on its way and banks should start now to get ready for it.

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Companies May Avoid Regulation FD Enforcement Proceedings

James J. Junewicz

The SEC indicated in a recent litigation release that a company may avoid an SEC enforcement proceeding for a Regulation FD violation by a key employee, even when the SEC commences a proceeding against the employee responsible for the violation.

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The Corporate Takeover: Seizing Control over e-Discovery

Regina J. Jytyla

This article discusses the trend toward increased corporate litigation investment, preparedness and use of internal and external resources to simplify the process of responding to document-intensive requests. It also highlights recent common-law examples of where corporate litigation preparedness and/or response efforts have fallen short, resulting in costly consequences.

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Economic Stimulus and False Claims Act Liability

David Lee Tayman

Setting aside the contentious issue of whether stimulus activities are good for the economy at large, it is important that applicants for, and recipients of, stimulus funds realize that participation in these programs could result not only in significant benefits, but also in exposure to legal liability.

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Quarterly State Compliance Review

Sandra Feldman

This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2010. It also looks at some recent decisions of interest, including two from the Delaware Chancery Court.

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Election of Directors

Robert S. Reder & Matthew A. Thiel

The <i>Axcelis</i> decision demonstrates the continued reluctance of Delaware courts to allow plaintiffs to utilize DGCL ' 220 as a means to troll for lawsuits against corporations.

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The Leasing Hotline

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent rulings of interest.

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Sometimes Hell Does Freeze Over

By Gary A. Goodman & Rachel D. Ittner

The recent decision in <i>Reliastar Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.</i> illustrates once again the limits of a purchaser's or lender's ability to rely on an estoppel certificate, especially when a tenant is entitled to claim constructive eviction. Moreover, the court determined that constructive eviction would trump a "hell or high water" commitment to pay rent.

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