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Nov 1, 2016 3:10 AM CDT
A legal recruiting firm in Dallas claims a recorded phone call will show a law firm partner agreed to work with the company exclusively if he pursued an opportunity at…
Aug 24, 2016 9:35 AM CDT
A federal judge in Los Angeles has tossed a lawsuit alleging Starbucks is misleading customers about the size of its iced beverages because some of the liquid is displaced by…
Aug 24, 2016 8:50 AM CDT
Federal labor law bars companies from requiring employees to give up their right to band together to pursue workplace claims, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The San Francisco-based 9th…
Aug 23, 2016 11:16 AM CDT
During last weekend’s annual meeting of the Canadian Bar Association, the organization held its own version of TV’s Shark Tank.
Called “The Pitch” (presumably to avoid copyright infringement, as well…
Aug 17, 2016 12:25 PM CDT
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is citing a Texas Supreme court opinion to advise against release of information—ranging from the number of Uber driver permits issued by the city of…
Aug 9, 2016 10:15 AM CDT
Fox News chief Roger Ailes is leaving his job two weeks after former anchor Gretchen Carlson claimed in a lawsuit that he fired her and sabotaged her career because…
Jul 21, 2016 3:38 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit seeking to hold the Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network responsible for a contract employee at a regional chapter who falsely claimed…
Jun 21, 2016 1:54 PM CDT
A California lawyer for a startup called QuickLegal claims in a lawsuit that he was never paid for more than three months of work he performed as in-house general counsel…
Jun 20, 2016 7:30 AM CDT
The Yale law professor who wrote a book about strict “Tiger mom” parenting decided there needed to be some rules when her two daughters informed her they would be…
Jun 14, 2016 6:15 AM CDT
The Federal Trade Commission has sued two Southern California law firms, seeking to freeze their assets and appoint a receiver.
It says Brookstone Law and Advantis Law raked in $15…
Jun 10, 2016 12:30 PM CDT
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan claims in a lawsuit that Jimmy John’s sandwich restaurants are violating state law by requiring low-wage workers to sign restrictive noncompete agreements.
The suit filed…
Jun 10, 2016 8:45 AM CDT
In 2015, a law took effect in San Francisco that requires those who make short-term rentals available on sharing sites such as Airbnb, HomeAway and VRBO to register with local…
Jun 3, 2016 11:53 AM CDT
When tenants in a Salt Lake City apartment building discovered an unusual lease addendum taped to their doors last week, a number were irked.
It said they had to “friend”…
Jun 1, 2016 3:35 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has overturned a $1.27 billion civil penalty against Bank of America for risky loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by its Countrywide unit.
The…
May 24, 2016 2:20 PM CDT
