Minnesota Lawyer

Class-action lawsuits pitting privacy advocates against an industry built on buying and selling state motor vehicle records have resulted in contradictory rulings in federal courts across the country over the last few years. But a Woburn, Mass., law firm is involved in a case that could finally end the confusion.

Now that we have experienced the financial crisis of 2008, attention has turned from conduct that is illegal to concerns going beyond legal risk.

Electronic discovery has rapidly evolved over the past decade, catapulting from a rare occurrence few worried about to a full-fledged, burdensome reality for corporations and legal practitioners.

Roughly 93 percent of the respondents to a Fulbright & Jaworksi litigation trends study predict legal disputes will increase next or stay the same next year.

The employer has an obvious interest in monitoring employee e-mails sent and received on company computers to prevent such objectionable uses. However, monitoring employee e-mails raises issues involving expectations of confidentiality and privacy and, in some instances, thorny ethical issues.

The statute amended federal civil rights and employment laws to prohibit employers from firing, refusing to hire or otherwise discriminating against employees based on genetic information.

If your clients are employers, chances are good that they're grappling with the antisocial side of social media, and a recent complaint by the National Labor Relations Board isn't making the task any easier.

The purpose of this article is to give you some sense of the direction of the bill, and what is to come. Here is my view of some of the major themes arising from the legislation.

Much like a marriage, the relationship between inhouse and outside counsel becomes strained when communication breaks down and there are no shared goals.

As an expert employment investigator, I am also occasionally called upon to judge the work of others. Both plaintiff's and management attorneys contact me to review their client's or opponent's investigation requesting that I render an opinion as to whether the investigation was adequate or sufficient.