Among the accusations hurled in a wrongful termination suit filed last month, a former Morrison & Foerster secretary claims that one of the firm’s associates once threatened to bring an…
In a series of new investigations related to the prior conduct of a biology professor accused of shooting three colleagues to death and wounding three others at a faculty meeting…
A federal judge has ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to pay an Iowa trucking company’s $4.56 million legal bill after dismissing what she characterized as a pattern and practice…
A former partner says the U.K. law firm Eversheds was neither swift nor decisive after a colleague questioned the commitment of a job candidate, a new mother.
In a development that is drawing fire from management-side employment lawyers, the American Psychiatric Association wants binge eating and excess gambling to be considered psychiatric disorders.
In at least the third such lawsuit filed against a partner of the South Florida law firm at the center of ex-attorney Scott Rothstein’s reported $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, a…
Updated: In an effort to identify others who may have been involved in ex-attorney Scott Rothstein’s reported $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, a bankruptcy trustee overseeing the dissolution of Rothstein Rosenfeldt…
It began with an administrative law judge’s request for a disabled parking space near the building where he works for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington,…
A criminal investigation has been opened into a gas explosion that killed five and injured a dozen workers at a power plant in Connecticut on Sunday, reports the Feb 9, 2010 2:37 AM CST
An arbitrator handling a years-long employment dispute between a former Santa Barbara News-Press editor and his publisher has awarded the ex-editor $748,022 mainly to cover his legal costs.
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