http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Littler Mendelson Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/131373 Whether it be “sexting” with a co-worker or getting “poked” by the boss on Facebook, so-called textual harassment in the workplace is a reality, experts say, and companies that don't keep pace with new technology can quickly find themselves in legal hot water. http://www.law360.com/articles/131373 http://www.law360.com/articles/132751 Pilot Travel Centers LLC has agreed to pay $4.25 million to settle an opt-in class action accusing the truck stop chain of failing to pay overtime wages to a group of co-managers. http://www.law360.com/articles/132751 http://www.law360.com/articles/131956 Former top congressional staffer and policy adviser Ilyse Schuman has joined employment and labor firm Littler Mendelson PC as a shareholder in its Washington office. http://www.law360.com/articles/131956 http://www.law360.com/articles/130786 The former vice president of labor relations law at FedEx Corp. has joined Littler Mendelson PC in the firm's Atlanta office. http://www.law360.com/articles/130786 http://www.law360.com/articles/130575 A federal judge has granted conditional collective certification to a billing analyst at Level 3 Communications LLC who has accused the company of misclassifying its analysts as exempt from federal overtime pay regulations. http://www.law360.com/articles/130575 http://www.law360.com/articles/129513 Employment firm Littler Mendelson PC has tapped Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigator Margaret Clemens to head its new office in Rochester, N.Y. http://www.law360.com/articles/129513 http://www.law360.com/articles/123974 The U.S. Supreme Court has already heard or is poised to hear five labor and employment cases this term, including two labor cases involving arbitration issues, a Title VII case with echoes of the controversial Ledbetter decision and a case over how much deference courts should give to Employee Retirement Income Security Act plan administrators. http://www.law360.com/articles/123974 http://www.law360.com/articles/127892 In a harshly worded opinion, a California appeals court has reversed summary judgment for United Airlines Inc. on a number of claims in a suit filed by an airline mechanic alleging religious and racial discrimination. http://www.law360.com/articles/127892 http://www.law360.com/articles/126551 The high court in Massachusetts has reinstated a jury's $1 million punitive damages award to a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pharmacist who claimed she was underpaid because of her sex and fired for seeking better wages. http://www.law360.com/articles/126551 http://www.law360.com/articles/124147 A federal judge has granted conditional certification to a group of restaurant servers in a collective action accusing Geisha NYC LLC, the company that operates New York restaurant Japonais, of paying less than minimum wage by withholding tips. http://www.law360.com/articles/124147 http://www.law360.com/articles/123786 A federal appeals court has denied outsourcing firm eTelecare Global Solutions-US Inc.'s challenge of a trial court's refusal to compel arbitration in its dispute with a former employee, citing the company's failure to produce the full arbitration agreement. http://www.law360.com/articles/123786 http://www.law360.com/articles/121721 Sports law expert Robert Lloyd Clayton has left Littler Mendelson PC to join workplace law firm Jackson Lewis LLP as a partner in its Washington office, where he'll focus on Title IX compliance for universities as well as traditional employment law. http://www.law360.com/articles/121721 http://www.law360.com/articles/122078 A number of law firms earned high marks in a Human Rights Campaign Foundation survey that rated more than 590 businesses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace benefits and policies, with 43 percent of the 200 largest firms in the U.S. receiving a perfect score for their LGBT-friendly practices. http://www.law360.com/articles/122078 http://www.law360.com/articles/119664 Toyota Motor Corp. has launched a bid to seal a former in-house attorney's sweeping set of racketeering allegations accusing the Japanese auto giant of withholding evidence in hundreds of vehicular death and injury suits and subsequently firing him for complaining about the alleged cover-ups. http://www.law360.com/articles/119664 http://www.law360.com/articles/104919 Lawyers say Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which takes effect in November, probably won't cause an immediate surge in lawsuits. But it will pose compliance challenges for businesses, and some worry that it could threaten employers' efforts to curb health care costs through workplace wellness plans. http://www.law360.com/articles/104919 http://www.law360.com/articles/116502 A federal judge overseeing a wage-and-hour class action brought by San Diego transit workers has denied the majority of the parties' summary judgment motions, ruling that it is too early to make a call on the question of whether Laidlaw Transit Services Inc. violated California labor laws. http://www.law360.com/articles/116502 http://www.law360.com/articles/115773 Grand Central Partnership Inc. has agreed to pay four public safety officers a total of $40,000 and amend its equal employment policies to settle a federal lawsuit alleging the neighborhood improvement organization discriminated against its Rastafarian employees by reprimanding them for wearing long dreadlocks that showed outside of their uniform hats. http://www.law360.com/articles/115773 http://www.law360.com/articles/115244 Wells Fargo & Co. is opposing an attempt by California home mortgage consultants to reopen discovery in their case alleging the financial firm misclassified them as exempt from overtime pay, claiming the plaintiffs are trying to get another shot at winning class certification. http://www.law360.com/articles/115244 http://www.law360.com/articles/107126 If the Employee Free Choice Act fails to pass as originally proposed, lawyers say the labor movement could try to extract similar benefits from the National Labor Relations Board, which is expected to be primarily composed of union-friendly members. http://www.law360.com/articles/107126 http://www.law360.com/articles/113176 Judges are beginning to lose patience with lawyers who submit careless, ineffective lists of e-discovery search terms that return mounds of useless results, as a handful of recent rulings makes clear. However, experts say there are some relatively easy steps lawyers can take to make sure the keywords they use to search e-discovery data generate useful results and avoid bringing down a judge's wrath. http://www.law360.com/articles/113176