The credit reporting firm, Equifax , has agreed to settle a nationwide class action over a massive data breach. The huge 2017 breach exposed te Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some cases, the driver’s license and credit card numbers of more than 147 million consumers; the settlement is valued at over $1.5 billion. […]
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Here’s how to preserve work product privilege while working in-house
You’re a lawyer. You have a great in-house job, working with internal clients you know and trust. You talk and write notes and emails all the time about products, marketing materials, regulatory changes, and
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NLRB doesn’t “like” employee’s Facebook video, says it’s not concerted
One of the thorniest issues employers, courts and the National Labor Relations Board have had to deal with in recent years is social media and how it interacts with U.S. federal labor law. Employees,
Companies continue to pay more to defend class actions. They face more class actions, and bet-the-company class actions continue to increase. That’s the conclusion of the eighth annual Carlton Fields Class Action Survey. In
Attention, in-house counsel: Rules concerning FCPA compliance have been relaxed in both small and significant ways. Lawyers at the firm Morrison & Foerster have compiled an easy to read, Cliff Notes version of the changes
Federal judges have not only embraced e-discovery, but they want lawyers to be better at it, according to a survey released this week. The survey, by software provider Exterro and EDRM/Duke asked 264 current or
The Washington, D.C.-based law firm Crowell & Moring has just published its seventh-annual “Litigation Forecast 2019: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year.” The firm says that it takes a deep
The Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) isn’t the only legal survivor from the prLatevious U.S. administration. Late last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld an Obama-era
The law firm Allen & Overy has put out a client alert warning that a British court held that emails between an in-house lawyer and an employee, gathering information to provide to external lawyers, were
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Litigation report: Companies caught in bind over differing countries’ discovery,
There’s good news and bad news in Norton Rose Fulbright’s 2018 Litigation Trends Annual Survey. The good news is that overall litigation that began against survey respondents is down. The bad news? Legal departments
