The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-4 decision that the National Labor Relations Board was acting without authority when membership on the five-member board fell to only two…
Domestic worker Agnes Cybulska claims in a lawsuit that an heir to the Annenberg fortune violated New York City’s human rights law by asking her to submit to an HIV…
An attractive New York banker who sparked a media frenzy by suing her former employer for allegedly firing her because she was “too distracting” in a business suit and high…
It is undisputed that a partner of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz had an affair with the wife of a client and longtime friend while representing the fired bank…
The Securities and Exchange Commission nixed a newspaper’s Freedom of Information Act request for the names of some 33 employees and contractors—many of them attorneys—determined by an Office of Inspector…
A fire alarm activated a year ago on the third floor of Parker McCay’s offices has left the New Jersey law firm still dealing with a super-heated situation.
Ordinarily, workers’ compensation provides the remedy for an employee who is injured or killed at work. But attorney Barry Cohen says he expects tort law to trump workers’ comp immunity…
An ethics panel has given the green light to New York judges who wish to alleviate the paucity of pay raises for the past 12 years by moonlighting as artists.
In a lawsuit that could eventually include some 180,000 plaintiffs, current and former workers at the Bank of America are seeking compensation for allegedly unpaid wages and overtime.
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